Vjtheory: Another Point Of View
A research which starts from the more and more widespread need to think upon how sense is generated and the visual impact Vjing has, which is far more than the technical approach to the discipline.... READ MORE...
Audiovideo
Il Design Minimale Targato Raster Noton
Di fronte all'intimo e raccolto Auditorio del CCCB di Barcellona, dove ho avuto l'occasione di suonare nel progetto audiovideo con Valentina Besegher in occasione del festival Offf 2007, si sono alternati le presentazioni e i workshop di importanti nomi e progetti di graphic e multimedia design, nel pi ampio spazio della Hall centrale. Sicuramente una delle cose pi interessanti a cui ho avuto l'occasione di assistere, ma anche una di quelle pi fuori contesto rispetto all'atmsfera generale del festival, stata lo showcase dell'etichetta di musica elettronica e sperimentazione audiovisiva Raster-Noton .... READ MORE...
Bent Festival: Circuit Bending D’autore
Lunga vita ai vostri giocattoli elettronici! é questa la filosofia del circuit bending, ovvero l'arte di modificare gadget elettronici di ogni tipo assemblando circuiti per ottenere suoni, generare nuove interazioni, creare installazioni di ogni tipo.... READ MORE...
Offf Barcelona 2007
Re:Fresh, the 2007 edition, is the most ideological edition in the history of the festival, and starts with an invitation to rethink the most fundamental concepts. John Maeda, the founding figure of interaction design, visits Offf for the first time to speak about his fight for simplicity.... READ MORE...
Elektra, Festival Arts Numeriques
It is now at its eight edition one of the first and most important festival of the world, in the ambit of digital art and audio-visual expression: the Elektra Festival of Montreal . One of the first international festival that focalized on experimental artistic audio-video forms with a wise and clever approach able to analyze the evolution of these years on the borders between art, experimentation, technologic research and communication.... READ MORE...
99rooms: Net Synesthesia
99rooms is an interesting web-based project that mix real ambient and virtual ambient. It is realized painting worrying figures in an old abandoned factory, then animating them so that they interact through 99rooms.... READ MORE...
Sonarmagica: Sonar Multimedia 2007
Why do you go to Sonar? Because of music, parties, Barcelona, summer starting, friends from all over the world you meet once a year, new persons you meet, the sea... READ MORE...
Optronica: The Audiovisual Culture
The second edition of Optronica took place in London from 14th to 19th March, in the restructured National Film Theatre Complex, opened with the name of BFI Southbank and in the incredible IMax Cinema , near the first one. This edition confirmed the British festival as an not to be missed appointment for the lovers of Live Media and Live Cinema, and as meeting for the experts of the sector.... READ MORE...
Cindy Keefer: Visual Musica History
Projected light and Colour: Early Visual Colour Organs and Light Shows'. This is the title of the talk that Cindy Keefer from the Centre for Visual Music of Los Angeles held at the NTF1 of BFI during last Optronica Festival day in London... READ MORE...
Quayola: Visual Delicatessen
Davide Quagliola is among that group of sensible Italians who left their native shores to move to less sunny yet more hospitable places. Having moved from Rome to London, his work had been long associated with that of HFR Lab (a visual experimentation duo together with Chiara Horn), a project of sound and video, graphic and music on the border between installations and live performances which, also thanks to the good choice of moving to London, succeeded in creating a considerable professional connection net which probably would have been impossible to have living in Italy.... READ MORE...
Ran Slavin, Improvisation Live Cinema
In the international panorama of audiovisual performances, one of the most structuring characteristics of the projects is the high degree of control that performers want to have during the performance. Ran Slavin, musician, video-artist and multimedia artist from Israel, works in a completely different manner.... READ MORE...
Armin Linke / Claudio Sinatti: Details
Details is a production of Netmage 07 which took place recently, and came into existence thanks to the cooperation between Armin Linke and Claudio Sinatti, both looking for an experimental area in which photography overcomes the limit of its static nature thanks to an essential movement, aimed at catching what is already inside the picture.... READ MORE...
Takagi’s Treasure
In the video art panorama, an original figure is the Japanese artist Takagi Masakatsu . His works have a peculiar approach and they're suddenly recognizable. His work is a perfect fusion between images, colours and sounds.... READ MORE...
Visual Music On Big Screen
After the big success of the first edition of 2005 in London, Optronica comes back from the 14th to the 19th of March thanks to the collaboration among the British Film Institute , Addictive Tv audio-visual artists and producers and the association Cinefeel , to present what announce to be one of the most innovative and dynamic events of 2007.... READ MORE...
Mixing Identities: Quali Direzioni Per I Vj Italiani?
é in uscita per l'etichetta Minus Habens-Mixing Identities, la prima raccolta in forma di videoclip sul vj'ing italiano, nato dalla collaborazione tra VjCentral.it e la Fondazione Arezzo Wave.... READ MORE...
Live Ixem 06…a Summary
The last 17 th December there was the 6th Edition of the Italian contest of electronic experimental music and arts Ixem, at the Rialto Santambrogio in Rome, in an intimate and cordial environment; it was enough to dilute the competitive tension which was however present, to testimony the importance that the festival/competition of Antitesi has on a national level.... READ MORE...
Avit C23, Pixels Want To Be Trusted
The second edition of Avit C23 took place in Berlin from the 27 th to the 30 of January together with the 23 rd annual hacking conference: Computer Chaos Conference. The event, organised by the new association Visual Berlin, gathering from less than a year, video artists active locally, configured as an exchange moment between European realities (and not only) active within visual experimentation and as a confrontation with the wide computer addicted community gathered in Berlin on the occasion of the Chaos Conference... READ MORE...
Motomichi Nakamura, Japanes Hasta La Madre
In un ambiente, artistico e professionale, in cui sempre pi spesso il riconoscimento di una precisa levatura artistica determinato, soprattutto a livello grafico e visuale, pi dalla capacit di utilizzo eclettico del software open source pi recente che da una visione estetica pi ampia e stilisticamente matura e riconoscibile, il lavoro del visual artist, vj e motion graphic designer giapponese/americano Motomichi Nakamura, riconcilia con la semplicit, la dinamicit e la potenza espressiva della graphic animation. ... READ MORE...