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Mark Ridder, a brave 3rd year Interactive/Media/Design student from the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague wrote to the Swedish VJ Union to promote his show:
“Crowd VJ is an interactive visual show where visuals are defined through movement. You only need to bring your favorite light source and the visuals are generated for you while dancing. Easy as that! No vj is involved anymore, just party.”
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”.
I’m in Yokohama for Siggraph Asia. I’m helping out with a demo of Instant Brodcasting System*, a software for live mixing of videostreams from mobile cameras. We’re in the Emerging Technologiessection, if any one is stopping by.
This installation at Heineken’s Green Room Sessions party at Malmen, Stockholm, is a was a group effort. Jakob Grandin, head of Grandins Flying Circus asked the Vidiots to set up a triple screen video installation displaying film and photography from a number of artists.
So I went to this vase party at Nordic Light Hotel last week. Iittala was showing off their vase “Lantern” by Harri Koskinen in a two piece video installation called “Light Reflections” by the Vidiots.
The students in NYU’s Big Screen class shows their exam projects on a 120 foot wide video wall in the IAC building on Manhattan’s west side.
Here is a reel from Neoproj with more video mapped projections. Not bad at all. It’s a french company that offers a commercial version of video mapping.
Out of a coincidence I stumbled over this Anti VJ video from the 4th of october when I was surfing for something completely different. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
Yesterday was the premier of Nordic Lights Hotel’s new bar called Light Factory that is fore most going to be used for events and special parties. For this premier the Vidiots had made a video installation where they projected on four modules in shapes inspired by ice blocks built in white cardboard.
