Lo-tech VJ workshop

http://www.mediamatic.net/id/26904 2010-11-10T07:43:21+01:00 Lo-tech VJ workshop The post-digital approach to VJ-ing

By using and combining various sources of projections and lights, fingercams, mirrors, foils, lenses, projection surfaces and more, participants will explore non digital ways to generate amazing visual trickery.

<h2>Approach</h2> The neo-analogue, post-digital approach to VJ-ing. By using and combining various sources of projections and lights, fingercams, mirrors, foils, lenses, projection surfaces and more, participants will explore non digital ways to generate amazing visual trickery. In one day participants will work towards a live performance, open to public, that will take place at 20.15 hours with the acoustic-electric impro collective <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~ariealt/oorbeek/">Oorbeek</a>. <h2>Trainers</h2> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-3337-en.html">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</a> and light technician <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-33008-en.html">Tom Verheijen</a>. <h2>Reader</h2> A collection of relevant YouTube video's have been gathered to function as source of inspiration and to give a viable impression of different facets and perspectives of Lo-Tech VJ. The reader can be found <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-33550-en.html">here</a>. <h6>Workshop Report</h6> written by <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-8275-en.html">Nadya Peek</a> A painting looks like it has been painted. A photograph looks like it has been photographed. And yet, I am not bothered by an image being so obviously silkscreened. Why is it then, that I am so annoyed at animations that look like Flash, CD-roms that look like Director MX and the latest science fiction box office success looking like it could also be an advertisment for the latest possibilities in After Effects? Some people create their own aesthetic by creating their own software: Bob Sabiston's A Scanner Darkly or Waking Life are wonderfully unique in their imagery. However, not everyone has the cash for full fletched software development for a visual project. This results in too much motion too constrained by too little software. Animators and VJs have it tough. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/34245/en/lo-tech-vjing"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/934/34245-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="Lo-tech VJing" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Lo-tech VJing - Mediamatic.net" href="/34245/en/lo-tech-vjing">Lo-tech VJing</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/34246/en/lo-tech-vjing"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/195/34246-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="Lo-tech VJing" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Lo-tech VJing - Mediamatic.net" href="/34246/en/lo-tech-vjing">Lo-tech VJing</a> Last week at the Mediamatic EcoVis salon, we had the pleasure of 6 pairs of VJs performing simultaneously to our local electro-acoustic improvisation band Oorbeek. These were the results of the 1-day Lo-Tech VJ workshop. None of them looked like Photoshop filters, nor did any of them look alike. They projected onto all the white walls available, on top of the Oorbeek band members, who politely donned white boiler suits to minimize their visual appearance for the occasion. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/34248/en/lo-tech-vjing"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/745/34248-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="Lo-tech VJing" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Lo-tech VJing - Mediamatic.net" href="/34248/en/lo-tech-vjing">Lo-tech VJing</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/34244/en/painted-cds"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/181/34244-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="painted CDs" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - painted CDs - Mediamatic.net" href="/34244/en/painted-cds">painted CDs</a> Anne Gentenaar and Martin Holzmeister's liquid television was blown, shifted, reflected and dazzled. Broken CDs, vases of coloured water, beads and straws aided the pair in their hand made image choreography. Arne Hendriks and Nienke Koek used sand in their performance- Nienke following Arne's arm gestures on the wall on a projector full of grains, showing trails and tracks of physical movement without all the artefacts and expenses of computer vision. Byungjun Kwon brought his own army of self hacked attributes: a small image sensor in a wand, which he stroked and sparked over turntables, records and other textures to turn into imagery. All in all, a refreshing evening of innovative lo-tech imagery, with some awesome music to boot. Reminds you why SF&L won the Visual Sensations VJ prize in 2005. Workshop Archive Lo-tech VJ workshop non digitital techniques with stunning results!

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<h2>Aanpak</h2> Gebruik vingercamera's, spiegels, lenzen, en oppervlaktes om op te projecteren en ontdek hoe je met niet-digitale technieken verbluffende visuele projecties maakt. Je werkt de hele dag toe naar een live, publiek toegankelijk, optreden die s'avonds 0m 20.15 uur zal plaatsvinden met het electro-acoustisch improvisatie collectief <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~ariealt/oorbeek/">Oorbeek</a>. <h2>Trainers</h2> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-3337-en.html">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</a> en licht technicus <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-33008-nl.html">Tom Verheijen</a>. <h2>Reader</h2> Bekijk ook deze collectie van YouTube videos ter inspiratie......<a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-33550-nl.html">hier</a> <h2>Fotos</h2> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/776/34572-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Klaas and Arne, electro acoustic visual" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Klaas and Arne, electro acoustic visual - Mediamatic.net" href="/34572/en/klaas-and-arne-electro-acoustic-visual">Klaas and Arne, electro acoustic visual</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/934/34245-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="Lo-tech VJing" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Lo-tech VJing - Mediamatic.net" href="/34245/en/lo-tech-vjing">Lo-tech VJing</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/195/34246-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="Lo-tech VJing" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Lo-tech VJing - Mediamatic.net" href="/34246/en/lo-tech-vjing">Lo-tech VJing</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/745/34248-400-225.jpg" height="225" width="400" alt="" title="Lo-tech VJing" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Lo-tech VJing - Mediamatic.net" href="/34248/en/lo-tech-vjing">Lo-tech VJing</a> <h6>Workshop Report</h6> Deze is alleen beschikbaar in het engels. Kijk daarom <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-26904-nl.html?lang=en">hier</a> Workshop Archive - ARTEFACT event workshop 1