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Diaryof course, it was all going too well: putting together all the separate elements hasn’t proved so straightforward.
of course, it was all going too well: putting together all the separate elements hasn’t proved so straightforward.
diary | 30 jan 2009 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · web
if you’re in berlin working on the new avit vj network website, you’re not going to miss going to visual berlin’s weekly meeting: its a concrete expression of what avit stands for, of what can happen through the network effect. so doubly nice to have a tag-team history of avit presentation shared between so many in the room, and not just be able to trace not only visual berlin’s genesis, but many other nice things such as joanie of antivj’s proto-mapping work at avit>c23 that led to a permanent installation in maria where we had been two nights before, as well as being the big movement in visuals since.
diary | 29 jan 2009 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
fred and flux hammer it out
diary | 27 jan 2009 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · web
which also makes it beer’o’clock
diary | 26 jan 2009 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · web
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…now why do i think it might not end up this simple?
diary | 26 jan 2009 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj
in berlin for avit dev camp: there will be a new website, the door has been locked until its done. berliner kindl, meet todd’s kindle.
diary | 25 jan 2009 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · adventures
photo: federico ciamei; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
i love this image of the day after, it speaks volumes to me about what is good about things like live performers meeting and the people around it. the festival marked joana’s first anniversay as a vj, and here she is helping derig.
photo: me; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
having spent the best part of a week in the venue, i won’t ever forget the feeling of looking up at the contrast of classically proportioned, warm textured roof against barbaric ironwork.
photo: federico ciamei; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
there was a vj contest, and i really liked how it was run. a film was selected, the contestants had a few hours to make their clip selections etc, and they all had to make a five minute mix out of the film. and the judging was by amassing the results from a real range of judges, including myself. and thats ilan giving out modul8 as prizes, akira was up next to win the grand prize, a codanova midi controller.
photo: me; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
akira’s performance on friday was so good in fact, that on hearing he was having trouble with his gameboy, on saturday along came a gifted one from the crowd, a special edition with an audio mod to boot. and he won the vj contest, quite his festival.
photo: todd thille; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
bizarre midi crash apart, this was the most stressfull gig in a quite a while. talk about in front of your peers, on a great many screens.
diary | 31 may 2008 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · vj · rbn_esc · live performers meeting · live cinema
amazing photo: federico ciamei; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
yet again, i largely missed yroto’s very considered triple-head audiovisual piece. what i saw was quality, and this photo just blows me away.
photo: todd thille; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
lpm marked a great thing: finally meeting akira, for whom a few years back i was just 48 hours away from buying tickets to buenos aires for an avit vj festival that fell through at the last minute.
his set rocked, and really good to see audiovisual work from a vj who was a musician first. his act of performance was really visceral, and he ended with the nice touch…
photo: me; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
todd’s bio-sensor driving generative graphics craziness: the vjs are the plants. thats even better than ‘vjing with my mind’.
“Un voto positivo per l’intervista e un altro voto positivo per le basette di Spark :D”
…aah, basette = sideburns
http://en.qoob.tv/video/clip_view.asp?id=11282
also
http://en.qoob.tv/video/clip_view.asp?id=11053
http://en.qoob.tv/video/clip_view.asp?id=10844
diary | 29 may 2008 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · vj · live performers meeting
photo: me; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
its such a shame you can’t see the screen in the daylight, as brendan’s lovely vjtheory partner ana was full screen, getting the full lpm tour while she was still in bed in portugal… and especially surreal seeing her disembodied head glide into my periphery vision a few minutes later when i was sitting down and concentrating on vdmx… a definite moment of ‘we are in the future’ shock for me.
again a post taking some liberty with its posting date, it took me the best part of a month to actually get vjtalks online in acceptable form. go check, i like sunday’s.
http://avit.info/vjtalks
diary | 29 may 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · web · live performers meeting
photo: http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
this was actually sunday’s talk, but hey, its the photo that gives the idea.
photo: todd thille; http://avit.info/gallery2/v/lpm08/
first vjtalk, a who’s who of the dedicated, with the camera turned on its owner
well, technically, vjtalks was the first thing in the programme, so it actually started with me hollering in the daylight… but this image is nice, so lets roll with it.
nice to find inés outside in her natural habitat, even if it did involve 300 vj name badges…
diary | 27 may 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj
the programme for rome’s live performers’ meeting has gone up, featuring rbn_esc____av and a vj talk session a day.
diary | 25 may 2008 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · vj · rbn_esc
local live cinema authority falk gaertner gives a rare work-in-progress performance of his magnum opus kalkin revelation.
diary | 24 may 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · narrative lab · vj · vdmx · visual berlin · live cinema
bram delving into audio-visual midi matters. photo by todd thille.
diary | 24 may 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
…aka stuff we like, photo complete with dmy design stall. here are some links to the people/acts/work we talked about.
http://flight404.com
http://transphormetic.com
http://abstrakt.vade.info
http://sanchtv.com
http://antivj.com
http://bigartgroup.com
diary | 24 may 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
gave a complete overview to quartz composer from a vjs perspective, and got some really nice feedback. photo by todd thille.
the basics
getting beyond quicktime clips: what qc can do for you
ie. dancing abstract 3d a la toneburst and memo
ie. animating text files in your vj sets
ie. making dynamic installations
quartz composer 101
your first patch
dynamic controls
the key idea of time
common pitfalls
applying it and getting advanced
qc and vdmx
qc as dynamic clips
qc as filters
qc as rendering stacks
shaders
image kernels
glsl
3rd party plug-ins
diary | 24 may 2008 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · avit-vj-network · vj · teaching · visual berlin
putting the visual berlin t-shirt on their mascot… check this to get the full picture.
diary | 24 may 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
On the horizon: Visual Berlin and Live Performer’s Meeting
On a more peer-to-peer tip, late May will see a one-two with Visual Berlin organising a formal one day event of workshops and showcases amongst their ongoing antics at the design fair dmy-berlin, followed the next week by the four day collaborative frenzy of Live Performer’s Meeting in Rome, now in its fifth edition, more successful than ever, and expanding into a cool new venue. Its submissions are still open too. The formal disclaimer should state I have a hand in both, probably doing an in-depth Quartz Composer day-long workshop in Berlin and hosting vj talks in Rome. Come!
diary | 22 apr 2008 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · writing · visual berlin
hello gianluca, organiser of avit-like live performers meeting. while i couldn’t be part of the event as i was doing this in frankfurt, it came in useful when a selection of italian vjs was needed to chose my vj partner here…
diary | 10 dec 2007 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · vj · ford vj
one of the best stalls in the record fair was from birmingham, the city i left years ago for want of a scene bigger than one venue… times really do change. chris keenan aka prime objective, a vj and film maker who participated with the avituk2005 festival, was manning the stall. check his site, worth it for the homepage alone.
diary | 15 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · avit-vj-network · vj · sónar
#1 - performing the audiovisual rbn_esc to an attentive room, the idea of live cinema becoming visceral, having an out-of body experience while performing, feeling the work, feeling the audience, feeling the energy
#2 - meeting an inspiring person, and then them producing their avituk2005 pass from their wallet. its getting on for two years after that epic, not to mention the years of organisation and build-up from avit the worldwide vj network’s inception in 2002… knocked me for six.
diary | 21 jan 2007 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · rbn_esc · vision'r
…there are eight DVI-outs. mmm.
diary | 21 jan 2007 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · video-out · vision'r
2 hours sleep, eurostar, a croissant and coffee, a talk, a performance, a night into the small hours… its my 36 hours flip into vision’r, avit in paris.
somebody put it to me, that as vjs we are all sailing in our own directions, but need to harbour every now and then, and avits are these ports. i liked that.
thanks to todd thille for the photo
diary | 20 jan 2007 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · vision'r
…love to see people moving things on (and a cool bar too: M12)
photo credit: todd thille (flickr -> artificial eyes)
diary | 30 dec 2006 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
rbn_esc in audiovisual form used an iMac G5 and a titanium laptop working as video and audio machine respectively, both operating on the edge… kinda scary. now, they fit on the same screen on the same laptop, thanks to the cocoa rewrite of vdmx5 and a macbook pro… and barely stress the machine. add in motorised faders (loving my new behringer bcf2000, wondering how long it will last), and its quite the revolution.
diary | 30 dec 2006 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · vj · rbn_esc · vdmx · ableton · visual berlin
first chance to speak with falk of the live cinema blog since his summer superproduction followed by autumn of declaring the tools just not ready. so the piece wasn’t performed, but we did hear a run through of his thesis. how i would love to take that to hollywood to see the culture clash. followed that with a quick talk on my piece rbn_esc, and some of the ideas and processes behind it. and then the first performance with new toys, ableton and vdmx running on the same machine…
diary | 30 dec 2006 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · narrative lab · vj · rbn_esc · visual berlin · live cinema
a real highlight, and a great way to start a new year, was lawrence lessig talking CC at the CCC. obviously the creative commons idea was the thrust of the speech, but it was framed by comparing the free / open source software movement with that of media culture. in those terms, media and culture is an upstart by comparison, and the window of opportunity is probably shorter than we realise. makes the work of vjs and others in the coming decade even more important.
diary | 29 dec 2006 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
to berlin straight after christmas for avit vj gathering hosted within the chaos communication congress, the winter get-together of the hacking classes.
diary | 28 dec 2006 | tagged: avit-vj-network · vj · visual berlin
probably performed one of my best sets ever at avit paris, representing narrative lab. sometimes things are just right, and you find yourself in a beautiful bubble. not only did the ‘story collector’ set really capture the audience - props to paul for the vision and david last for the audio mix i used - but it seems a lot of vjs watching it stayed for the presentation and have been inspired by the ideas we’re developing.
diary | 22 jan 2006 | tagged: avit-vj-network · narrative lab · vj · vision'r · live cinema
i’m heading over to paris on thursday for vision’r, a vj festival holding the avit-the-international-vj-network banner. so nice to be able to take the train.
will be performing the narrative lab storyteller set, and talking a bit about what we’re up to, including the key question - do you sit or stand to live cinema?
diary | 16 jan 2006 | tagged: *spark · avit-vj-network · vj · vision'r
