Whether you call them VJs (the old-school video jockey, which mainstreamers invariably confuse with MTV presenters), or DJs (new-styled digital jockeys, illustrating the move away from simply remixing analog sources such as tape and slide projection), DJ Magazine recently released a great list of the top 20 best VJs of 2005.
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Joy Division reanimation
C505 | “Shadowplay” by Joy Division, Reanimated
Inspired by Peter Saville’s iconic design of the Unknown Pleasures album by Joy Division, C505 have recreated a music video taking this signature style and applying it to vintage footage of the band playing on Granada Reports (which was a local Manchester TV programme). It takes a certain [...]
U.S. Election video mashups
“Ever year, by law and by custom we meet here to threaten the world…”
Rev:USA is a project regenerating the spirit of Coldcut’s original Re:volution track. The remix project is well underway and more pertinent than ever with only a few weeks before the big election. Hosting video mashups and activist video bootlegs satirising and commenting [...]
Make Warp visuals
The audiovisual projects are coming thick and fast from Warp. News emerges on the follow-up to Warp Vs Creative Review, the successful music video ‘competition’ run by the label and magazine: Warp/CR Animate was so successful in turbocharging their promo video output they are doing it again.
Ten young filmmakers are wanted for a motion graphics [...]
The Return of EBN
A VJ Extravaganza featuring heavyweight acts EBN and Hexstatic is scheduled as the final event of Resfest 2004’s first outing of their new touring programme, in NYC (9-12 September, Tribeca Performing Arts Center). The live event takes place Sunday, 12 September, 10PM at Canal Room (285 W Broadway).
EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network), seminal influences of the [...]
Panasonic’s Motion Olympic shorts
“Bring it up, bring it up… Squeeze it up. Take it down.” Capture the motion, ten short movies from Panasonic on the olympic spirit, are an idiosyncratic, enlightened micro-movie blitz of creativity. From weightlifting, dancercising poodles in Nagi Noda’s infomercial comedy, to impressionistic snatches of athletes in action in Joel Peissig’s latest, compositing and special effects are integrated to tight capsule ideas. // More…
Precursor motion graphics
A clinical yet grotesque micro-world is explored in Quietus, where renegade motion fragments illustrate a modern bio-vectoral medical experiment. Precursor adds live action and motion controlled camerawork to their sharp motion graphic work showcased memorably in 2003’s Anomaly, a information study of a NASA shuttle flight, which was a Creative Review/Digital Vision finalist. Anomaly exhibits [...]
Projekttor vj festival
The three-day Projekttor VJ festival takes place in Berlin, 1-3 July, 2004. Locaton: Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee.
Daytime programme includes VJ workshops and software showcases of Arkaos, DV jukebox, Pure Data, and Phlumx, alongside the innovative Pioneer DVJ-X1 VJ DVD mixing deck.
Nightime programme features an international collection of DJs and VJs including Pixel Orchestra (IT), Photonics (NL), [...]
KDLAB / NikeLab: Art of Speed
Expect to see NikeLab’s Art of Speed project featuring multi-disciplinary moving imagemaker-created shorts all over the Web and at digital film festivals globally shortly.
The Computerlove site has a great preview of the collection featuring Les Jumelles by KDLAB.
Art of Speed will be featured at nikelab.com from 1 May 2004:
“With the Art of Speed project, Nike [...]
Bluespoon generative visuals
Blue Spoon recently completed providing a striking set of generative visuals for the London Sinfonietta, Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell tour, a worthy unofficial touring sequel to London’s annual Ether festivals which combine modernist classical works with contemporary electronica. Of particular note was a twitching, convulsing hyperrealistic ‘Sam head’, and a lush evolving web of neural networks.
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