Summertime in Sweden means less VJ-ing. We’re recovering from the dark winter by enjoying the sunlight. The Swedish VJ Union writers will take some time off to recharge the batteries. But who knows, maybe some of us can’t keep away from the keyboard despite the massive heat wave?
Author Archives: The MIDI Thief
The Volt 2010 festival report
The Volt crew came back with yet another festival at the concert hall in Uppsala. I recognized a lot of faces from last year. It feels like Volt only invites their friends to perform, but with friends like these, who could blame them?
VJ Festival – call for entries
It might not be the perfect timing to promote another German VJ festival but I just got a message from Norbert at the VJ Festival in Erlangen, close to Nürnberg in southern Germany.
The *spark d-fuser DVI mixer is coming closer
Toby Harris a.k.a. Toby *spark did a presentation of his first manufacturable prototype at the Visual Berlin festival. He just finished editing a video from the presentations that contains a few revelations.
Swedish techno legend teams up with design school
The Swedish techno legend, Håkan Lidbo, has teamed up with students from Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm. The students were given one track each to make a visual interpretation.
An interview with Aalto from AntiVJ
I got hold of Romain Tardy a.k.a. Aalto from AntiVJ and asked him a few questions about their latest mapping project at the new Visualiseringscenter C in Norrköping, Sweden.
AntiVJ in Sweden
AntiVJ, the kings of video mapping, will be presenting a new audiovisual piece directed by Romain Tardy at the Norrköping Visualiseringscenter this upcoming Saturday (May 29th).The Vidiots will also feature something they call a “video sculpture”.
New beer proof Midi controller
We had heard rumors about a new VJ Midi controller from Codanova that was supposed to have controls similar to the first iPod. This funny teaser movie premiered during the Mapping festival and was uploaded to Vimeo earlier today.
The Pixelache 2010 festival report
I was invited to the Pixelache festival to hang out and network. For once I didn’t have to perform or give a speech, so I could fully indulge in all the activities that time and energy permitted during my three day long visit. That included a day long Bar Camp with a lot of talk about open source software, architectural video mapping, an Arduino workshop and some great VJ performances.
Datastorm and the 8-bit scene
When Ilan Katin told me about the Datastorm party that was going on in Gothenburg parallel to Pixelvärk I got really excited. Datastorm is a party dedicated to the Commodore 64 and Amiga demo scenes. When we were done with the last Pixelvärk event and all the equipment was packed up, Ilan and I took a cab to an industrial area on Lindholmen in the outskirts of Gothenburg where the party was located.