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iMAPP Bucharest 555 – the biggest projection mapping of the world
The Palace of the Parliament of Romania in Bucharest with 365.000m² is the biggest building in europe and one of the biggest buildings in the world. Last weekend the largest building projection mapping in the world took place on its neoclassical facade during the 555th anniversary of Bucharest. 1 building 104 projectors 20.000 square meters […]
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quadcopter performances – military drones in arts
Drones as transporters for cameras and equipment? Sure, we have that! But drones as actors in performances, visuals or movies? Well, why not! Give it some meaning, give it some magic. Aside from many presentations in the defense sector, here are some beautiful examples of what is possible in performing arts with these little high […]
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Spout – Syphon for Windows
Finally! A video frame sharing system similar to MAC OS X open source platform Syphon has arrived to Microsoft Windows. For many VJs Syphon was the only reason to use a MAC, well.. you may come back to WIN now 🙂 Spout is hosted by zeal, developed by Lynn and Robert Jarvis, and is a […]
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BYOB Osnabrück
BYOB goes EMAF 2014. The first BOYB (Bring Your Own Beamer) of Lower Saxony will take place during EMAF (European Media Arts Festival) in Osnabrück, Germany. Artists, filmmakers and moving image enthusiasts are invited to screen their works at Lagerhalle e.V. in the Old Town of Osnabrück. If the weather is good, we might do […]
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Linux 4 VJs
Most visual artists create and perform with a consumer OS, with a mac and modul8/vdmx or with a pc with resolume. Linux4Vjs is gonna change that. Consumer OS combinations are easy to use (nevertheless also sophisticated) with known features and standardized plus comparable performance. When digging deeper into performing, you might want to move away […]
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new animated short movie by VJ Suave “Trip”
This year VJ Suave from Brazil had been on a „trip“ through Europe, to Switzerland, Portugal, Berlin and Mülheim an der Ruhr. During Shiny Toys Festival in Mülheim we lived together for a week and I was able to witness their work first hand. Over two years ago I had come across their lively, energetic […]
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Videonics Video Glossary
Videonics Video Glossary This is a duplicate of the actual „Videonic Video Glossary“ also found at Berkeley University. It is placed on this Web site as a backup, in case the original is not up for inspection. Our goal is to make the Videonics Video Glossary the world’s most comprehensive list of video terms! If […]
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SHINY TOYS * space 2013
SHINY TOYS SPACE is an international meeting-point for artists who share a passion for experimenting with communication mediums, who create synchronized image and sound and, thus, address auditory and visual senses. Visualizers, sound artists and all others interested are warmly invited to participate. gathering + workshops + hacker space 10.-13. Oktober 2013 no rules. but […]
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Color IQ
We VJs need to see. At least having one eye and some intuitive instinct about colors and looks are helpful to do a great show with a nice color ambience. There a different viewing disabilities, red-green blindness and blue–yellow blindness, that affect a significant percentage of the population. It is quite intriguing to consider that […]
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Manga Generator
Manga – the Japanese comic phenomenon that fascinates young and old also in the western world new gets interactive! At CEDEC 2013 (Computer Entertainment Developers Conference) Japanese researchers of Shirai Lab at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology presented a new HID system, that lets you step inside a Japanese manga comic with the help of […]
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Tina Tonagel – Live at SHINY TOYS
Tina Tonagel studied at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. Her artistic focus lies on kinetic machines, sound installations and different kinds of projections. At the moment she mainly works with overhead projectors which she rebuilds into new realtime-motion-projection-machines by using mechanical constructions. Tina Tonagel participated in several exhibitions and festivals and received different scholarships and awards, […]
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The Erasers – Road to Knowhere – Live at SHINY TOYS
The artist collective The Eraser from Athens combine live cinema, performance actions, internet and installed stage sceneries. The Eraser are thus building a new audio-visual language. “Road to Knowhere” is an outdoor (public space) performance that was premiered in Geneva, Switzerland 2011 at Mapping Festival and describes a road trip through Europe (past – present […]
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Christian Faubel – Live at SHINY TOYS
Christian Faubel is a researcher and artist interested in autonomous behavior and how it may emerge out of the interaction of very simple systems. In his artistic work he experiments with minimal low-level electronics and simple robots that generate patterns. Since 2001 participation in several media-art festivals with robotic-installations and workshops. http://derstrudel.org VJ Yochee [ˈviːdʒeɪ […]
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Ralf Schreiber – Live at SHINY TOYS
Ralf Schreiber works with electronics, with solar panels, with motors and tiny loudspeakers. His playful and experimental works produce small sounds, smallest movements and deal with weak energy transformation processes such as transforming light into movement or sound. He finished MA studies at the Münster College of Art and postgraduate studies at the Academy of […]
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Ray Vibration – Live at SHINY TOYS
Ray Vibration is an overhead projector project by Christian Faubel, Ralf Schreiber and Tina Tonagel. The projection surface emerges into a triptych, which reveals, increases and abstracts the smallest (inter)actions of different electronic and kinetic tools. Colourful solar robots and different small electronic musical instruments create images and generate sounds. These are then filtered on […]
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Werner Nekes – exhibition at SHINY TOYS
German filmmaker and media artist Werner Nekes has produced about 100 movies since 1965 and is represented at various international exhibitions and retrospectives. Over the course of the last 25 years, he put together one of the most important private collections of pre- and early history of audiovisual media and media arts. the collection is […]