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Vertical Video Syndrome
As society gets more and more addicted to shoot high resolution mobile phone videos, new phenomena and problems with filmmaking spread around the globe. Mario and Fafa talk about a very serious problem that needs to be fixed immediately. VJ Yochee [ˈviːdʒeɪ ˈʤɔkɪ] aka 7dexYochanan Rauert aka Yochee is working as a VJ in Münster, […]
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beat/blink/sync
beat/blink/sync is a book about audiovisual culture, aiming to explain vjing as a form of synaesthetic performance. Unfortunately this book is written in german, as it is closely related to a part of Maximilian Mittermeiers thesis in communication design at Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg, Germany. But anyway, it has many colorful pictures and schematics, that might […]
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Shadowscope
There are many old and different techniques to get an effect of moving images, beginning with flip-books and zoetropic discs (see Sculpture) to ancient shadow plays and shadow theatres (chinese 皮影戲/ Píyǐngxì; indonesian Wayang; thai Nang Yai). A very beautiful combination of shadow play and zoetropic devices can be found in these two works of […]
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respect your vj
VJ – also known as visualist, projectionist, live mix video artist – not your videographer, not your filmmaker – we are perfomers. Mixing our video artworks LIVE to the music all around, with our fingers on our gear, and our eyes on the crowd, projections, and screens. Our performances unfold as the evening unfolds. For […]