We choose to write this as an open letter instead of as a regular e-mail. We do it to show a really bad example of an arrangement. We do it in hope that this was a one time coincidence. And if not, that change will be made in the future.
The Internationales Videofestival Bochums is looking for 30 minute long audiovisual performances to be performed live in front of a sitting audience. Deadline for applications is 1st of March.
It’s time for yet another edition of the Pixelvärk digital arts festival. This year’s focus will lie on getting people from other art and design disciplines to get interested in live mixed video. For this reason Pixelvärk has teamed up with the Gothenburg International Film Festival. The first items of the festival program is up on the Pixelvärk website now.
Modul8 2.6 was finaly released but Garagecube doesn’t rest. They are planning the sixth edition of the Mapping Festival and the call for entries is out. Read all about it!
The summer vacation is over and the Swedish VJ Union is back in business. We’re hosting a VJ Jam at the OSC09 electronica festival produced by Landet and Färgfabriken. The VJ jam is scheduled for friday august 14th and saturday the 15th from 22:00-03:00. The following VJs will be there: Fetish 23, Lysbang, Nino S, Morrsken, Den Svenska Björnstammen, Dag55, Joel Dittrich & Martin Söderblom, The MIDI Theif and Oskar Ekeblad.
I’ve worked with the Landet guys before and I predict this festival to be super-cool-hot-sexy-magic. Read all about the festival on the OSC09 web site.
We just got this video from the “HELOW09” event at the the Pixelache festival from our friends Xploitec.
The next edition of the french Mal Au Pixel festival is being held in St-Ouen on may 29 – june. The program will be nailed sometime by the end of february, so there is still time to apply. Mal Au Pixel is part of the Pixelache network.
The 5th edition of the Mapping Fesival will take part on may 8-17 in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s Garagecube, the creators of the VJ software Modul8 that hosts the festival. This year the theme is to take the projections to the streets of Geneva. Beside the main theme: lectures, workshops, performances, installations and club gigs.
Here are some videos from lectures, performances and workshops from the Piksel ’08 fesitval (member of the Pixelache network) that went down in Bergen december 4-7.
On saturday the 18th Pixelvärk held their main party at the copper tents in Hagaparken (Stockholm). This year’s focus was put on installations. The theme was described as participatory culture, orientalism, dreams and mirages.
