VJ Fest Istanbul 2010 | VJ Fest Istanbul

The third edition: an international line-up of VJs and audiovisual artists, workshops and performances.

Program

VJ FEST 20-21-22 MAYIS 2010 Program:

20 MAY THURSDAY

WORKSHOPS 1

Place: Apartment Project, 13.00-18.00, Entrance Free

13.00 Presentation: C/o Pop “Sound of Cologne” (Germany)
13.30 VJ Talk: Telepresence & VJ-ing: Justin Hoffman (U.S.A)
14.00 Break
14.15 Workshop1: Video Mapping on 3D: Born Digital (Holland) www.setuputrecht.nl
15.30 VJ Talk: Feeling Visual Art: VJ Kat4er (Ukraine-Mystica Family)
16.00 Break / Discussion
16.30 Workshop 2: Video Mapping on 3D: Born Digital (Holland)

VJ-DJ ACTS
Dogzstar, 22.00-03.00, 10 TL+1 beer
Tech-House / World / Breaks / Hip Hop

Music/ DJs:
22.00 BESSUMI www.myspace.com/bessumi
24.00 NATIVIX www.myspace.com/nativix
01.00 CODE314 www.myspace.com/code314

VJs/ Video Painting:
22.00 VJ UNIQUE DEAF www.chink.fr
22.30 VJUNK - X-STATIC www.myspace.com/vjvideojunkie www.myspace.com/james_x_static
24.00 SCOUAP - VDRIPS! Live Painting & Video Mappingwww.myspace.com/vdrips
24.30 BOMBAKLAK www.myspace.com/bombaklak
01.00 LITTLE GENIE www.myspace.com/littlegenievideo
02.00 BORN DIGITAL www.myspace.com/borndigital

21 MAY FRIDAY

WORKSHOPS 2
Apartment Project, 14.00-18.00, Entrance Free

14.00 VJ Presentation: EleCTro_mOOn
14.30 Live VJ Painting: Roborant (Holland)
15.00 Break
15.15 Workshop 3: Video Mapping on 3d: Born Digital (Holland)
16.00 Workshop 4: Resolume A.V. & Quartz Composer: Goto10 (Holland)
16.45 Break
17.00 OSC Control of Resolume & VDMX: X-Static (Turkey)

VJ-DJ ACTS
Dogzstar, 22.30-04.00, 10 TL+1 beer
Minimal / Ambient / Tech-House / Techno

DJs:
23.00 BESSUMI www.myspace.com/bessumi
24.00 SHUMI (OKINAWA69) http://www.kompakt.fm/artists/shumi / http://podcast.kompakt.fm/2009/07/Dance_With_Me_Forever.mp3
02.00 PRINCE OFF www.myspace.com/princeoff

VJs:
23.00 ELECTROMOON www.myspace.com/elektro_moon
24.00 OKINAWA69 www.myspace.com/tasso_okinawa
01.00 GOTO10 www.hybridvisuals.nl
02.00 VJ GRANDA www.vjgranda.com
03.00 VJ ROAMVAESN www.myspace.com/romvaesn

22 MAY SATURDAY

OUTDOOR PROJECTIONS
French Institute Garden, 20.30-21.30, Entrance Free

INNER MOUNTAIN
20.30-21.00
Video/Live Painting: FLORA HUBOT
Live Violin/Voice: ARCONIC
Electronics: PIERRE MULAINAIRE
DJ: PIERRE PEVEE

ARCHITECTURAL VIDEO MAPPING
21.10-21.40
Video/Mapping: SCOUAP, BOMBAKLAK
Audio: CODE314

VJ-DJ ACTS
Dogzstar, 23.00-04.00, 10 TL+1 beer

DJs:
23.00 DUNIQ www.myspace.com/djduniq
24.00 NADR www.djnadr.com http://soundcloud.com/djnadr
02.00 OSCAR BABANI www.myspace.com/babanifriends

VJs:
23.00 LAMIR www.myspace.com/wojlamir
23.30 POLLY PASTIS www.myspace.com/pollypastis
24.00 ORCHIDE BITE www.myspace.com/orchid_bite
01.00 PIXELSHUBSER - VJ KAT4ER www.benjaminjantzen.de www.myspace.com/kat4er
02.30 ROBORANT www.eavan.hybridvisuals.nl
03.30 VJ ALX www.shifted.eu

VENUES

20-21 MAY WORKSHOP VENUE, No Entrance
APARTMAN PROJECT: http://www.apartmanproject.com
Şeh Bender Sok.NO:4 Asmalımescit, BEYOGLU

22 MAY OUTDOOR VENUE, No Entrance (Café & drinks available)
FRANSIZ KÜLTÜR MERKEZİ: http://www.infist.org
İstiklal Cad. No:4 Taksim

20-21-22 MAY PARTY VENUE, 10 TL. + 1 Beer
DOGZSTAR: http://www.dogzstar.com/
Kartal Sokak No:3 Kat:3 Galatasaray-TAKSIM tel 0212 244 91 47

Artists

2010 VJ FEST ISTANBUL

21 VJs, 12 country

2010 VJs' INFO VJ ALX (UKRAINE) Member of ALX CREW:http://www.shifted.eu “We are three guys from the very beautiful country called Ukraine. We have consciously doing our work, churning out life that inspire. Also, we’re always looking forward to meet new people."

BOMBAKLAK (FRANCE)http://www.myspace.com/bombaklak Artist from the AudioVisual Label AIE prod, he plays on immersive video installations and very personal colors.His influences are very contemporary, addict of Asian cinema, animation and motions graphics, always looking for new influences, he can adapt to environments and play on the scenography of an event. Drum'and Bass, Jungle, Breakbeat, Breakcore are his favorite music styles.

BORN DIGITAL (HOLLAND)www.myspace.com/borndigital Born Digital operates as an art assembly of electronic media artists and a complementing organization. Its different roots trace back to the early nineties. Producing electronic music and visuals have been daytime activities for most of the five initiators since the early Internet era. The fruits of their work have always been spread and shared by digital networks. Born Digital originally existed of five independent production companies and art labels. In the summer of 2008 all came together in one foundation for New Media & New Creativity. Besides organizing its own events, showcasing new media art projects, Born Digital established a physical workplace serving as a breeding ground for new media art, research and design.http://www.borndigital.nu SETUP Utrechtwww.setuputrecht.nlSETUP is a temporary space for anyone in Utrecht who is interested in the fusion of culture and technology. It will be open for three months, from april till june, in 2010. It will be situated at Neude square in Utrecht, the Netherlands. SETUP is a pilot project for the Medialab Utrecht foundation. This foundation aims to provide a permanent space for the Utrecht New Media Scene. SETUP is a part of Born Digital’s research phase.

DEAF UNIQUE (FRANCE)

EleCTro_mOOn (POLAND/HUNGARY)http://www.myspace.com/elektro_moon Elwira Wojtunik and Popesz Csaba Láng aka EleKTro mOOn Vision is a Polish-Hungarian duet of visual artists founded in 2004. Elwira graduated from the Media Faculty conducted by specialists from Audiovisual Art Institute from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Popesz is a master of the newest technologies. Initially they started to design visualizations for different music events in Budapest. At present they are based in Krakow (Poland) and work on various video art projects. Theirs activities are based on non-conventional, live experiments with the video surface. They actively take part in several events presenting contemporary new media and interdisciplinary art, improvised a/v performances, theater shows, media installations experimenting with motion picture.

GOTO10 (HOLLAND)http://www.hybridvisuals.nl Hybrid Visuals is the mad visual science of Joris de Jong. I live and work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. My first love and occupation was motion design. I just love making pretty things move. After a while I got fed up with long render times and corporate clients and more and more I started programming and manipulating visuals in realtime. Besides spending lots of time behind a computer screen, I teach the VJ Visual Production Course at SAE Amsterdam. Also I love zombies and apple pie. Feel free to get in touch about either.

VJ KAT4ER (UKRAINE)http://www.myspace.com/kat4er Katherina is from Misterica Family. Enthusiastic artistic, cheerful positive thinker, who loves travelling around Universe and shows this process on the screen. Katherina finds very important to concentrate on higher energies while making her performances. She is filmdirector who is looking for new ways of artistic expression in VJing. Katherina tries to find out new estetic features in live combining footages which she shoots by her own and then unites them in fictional narrative shorts right here and now at concrete event. Her works are taking part in different film festivals that's why unfortunaly they can't be published in internet. With Shifted team we cooperate on moving Vjing on new conceptual level in our country. Katherina heads video department at international art music festival Misterica which takes place in Krimea, UA that's why she is very interested in coming on your VJfest.demo1 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAr7w5xHgS8-ornamental graphics elements photos1-http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=518586557&albumID=279998&imageID=6548167

PIXELSCHUBSER (GERMANY)www.benjaminjantzen.de BENJAMIN JANTZEN www.jetztkultur.de www.lichtinstallationen.com/

VJ ROMVAESN (NORWAY)www.myspace.com/romvaesn The freedom and his loyal travel partner, his digital video camera. From the furthest outskirts of South East Asia to the urban metropolitan super cities of Tokyo and Beijing. In Trondheim, Norway he started cooperating events with the electronic music, net-based collective beatfoundation.com. He also worked together with noise, distortion and break-core acts such as swamps up nostrils (NO) and Animal Machine (PO) on a variety of small underground non-profit club-nights and concerts. In 2007 he decided to start his own alternative music-festival at the location of his farm in Selbu, with the name of Stoy pa landet, which means noise in the countryside in Norwegian. This gave him the opportunity to make contact with many other groundbreaking artists by booking sub cultural acts from other countries. He was booked to perform on one of Norway's major music festivals, Slottsfjellfestivalen and have since he is resident vj at Upopulær in Oslo, on top of Beatfoundation in Trondheim City.

ROBORANT (HOLLAND)http://www.eavan.hybridvisuals.nl Eavan is a video artist with experience in motion graphic animation and video editing. She adores colour and texture, noise and grain. Under the moniker Roborant, Eavan regularly performs live visuals at festivals and club nights. Loving the instant gratification of live visual editing. Music is one of her passions. Books and cinema are the food for her soul. A lecturer in a film making school, specialising in colour correction and Eavan teaches After Effects for corporate clients. She has also produced content for an international media school.

SCOUAP (FRANCE)http://www.myspace.com/scouap Founder of LOMBRIC IMAGES, SCOUAP, video-artist, imagor. It's from the heart of the Plastic Arts School, that Stephane Couapel (a.k.a. SCOUAP) developed his techniques and his interest for the real-time video. Shortly his view has turned to the installation and the video performance. Constant use of new projection supports converted him to a video-artist. These different installations and constant development of technologies (digital, informal and projection) practically brought him to work on real-time and interacted with public.

OKINAWA (GERMANY) http://www.myspace.com/tasso_okinawaResident VJ: Club: Gewölbe im Westbhf, Gloria Köln, Label: Kompakt Köln, Mobilee Berlin, vms Wien Festival: c/o pop, melt!, Loveparade final Arcade, Urban Art Forms Live Tour Visuals: Supermayer (kompakt) Rainhard Voigt (kompakt) Anja Schneider (mobilee) Release: brok01/ 02 mit Bruno Tait Visual DVD auf vms Wien… Okinawa 69 Audiovisual resistance from Cologne, who's exact area of activity remains as mysterious as the name. You can never be entirely sure what Okinawa 69 is up to at the moment, but there is one thing you can be sure of - they will cross your path regularly in one way or another,- be it in a dark club, in a gallery or in some other unexpected venue.

ORCHIDE BITE (BELGIUM / FINLAND)http://www.myspace.com/orchide_bite They aim to an alliance of video and performance participating to a climate of post-modern hybridation, a trans / multi / inter disciplinarity inviting all types of creations into a crossbreeding of art now and underground. "We consider the screens as a painting, mixing the layers and colors live in a serigraphic way to the point where fiction and reality converge. This restless painting functions as an open window, not on the world but on representations of our world.

VJ GRANDA (ANDORRA)http://www.vjgranda.com After 10 years as techno dj in underground raves in spain, with the french & english crew TASMANIAC of Barcelona (Spain), my interest for visuals grow quickly and in the year 2005 he started making visuals in Andorra (Club Qtr) and Barcelona (Club La Cova, and in many underground raves). Works regularly with the group of experimental music Likantropika. In June 2010 has been hired to perform at the URBAN ART FORMS Festival, which takes place every year in the Austrian city of wiessen and plans to make several appearances on the Razzmatazz in Barcelona.

VIDBEAT (TURKEY)http://www.myspace.com/vidbeat His first influences were Nam June Paik, Michel Gondry, Chris Cunnigham and Stanley Kubrick.He started Vj ing when he was a lighting operator in the Club Indigo."Artificial Eyes, Analog Recycling,D-fuse and The Light Surgeons are the Vj organizations that I like their style " says little-genie. From the year 2005, little-genie made Vj performances in Roxy,Peyote,Bunker Club,Studio Live, Kemanci, Pulp, Mojo, Unique,Plaque, Balans/Tonique, Joker Live, Aziza, Ghetto, Maslak Venue, Edgar G.,Eksi Limon and Hilton Convention Centre.

POLLY PASTIS (HOLLAND)http://www.myspace.com/pollypastis As a high strung performance vj, mixing her love of hard core video abuse with cute shoes, Polly Pastis is a true geek on heels. Years in the underground noise scene have influenced her visuals, as she researched how far you can trash a video and still create something new and pure out of the ashes. Throw in the fact that she doesn't just want to play you all some visuals, but to create an atmosphere in which the unexpected can (and should!) be expected, et voila! A sugary chewy sweet with a electric center, let the freaks come out and play!

VJUNK (TURKEY)http://www.myspace.com/vjvideojunkie Starting VJ-ing in 2005, she got very excited with digital manipulation of images with electronic music. With DJ Bessumi, they are making VJ-DJ Acts. She has been organizing VJ Fest Istanbul for three years. She is creating live visuals for rock band project Express 55. " I am serious in creating meanings with live visuals through music."

2010 AV ARTISTS ARCHITECTURAL VIDEO MAPPING (FRANCE/BELGIUM) Live video installation on architecture by VJs Scouap & Bombaklak from France and audio by Code314. It is a live AV act at Taksim, French Institute's old building will be used for the video mapping. You can watch the VIDEO.

INNERMOUNTAIN (BELGIUM): An ambient audiovisual live performance
Pierre de Mûelenaere (electronics)
Aurore Picavet (violin / voice)
Pierre Pevée (dj)
Flora Hubot (live painting visual)

InnerMountain is an ambient piece of music created and played for chinese painter Xu Longsen exhibition "on a top of a thousand mountains" (Europalia China 2009/ Palais de Justice de Bruxelles/ 10/10/2009 - 29/11/2009) official opening. Made of reprocessed samples from berliner pianist Nils Frahm and fields recordings, the electronic composition by Pierre de Mûelenaere is sublimated with the voice and violin of Aurore Picavet and Pierre Pevée's turntables ; while original live painting visual by Flora Hubot is screened on stage. Main inspiration of this audiovisual creation comes from the work of Xu Longsen : oversized mountains painted with ink on white paper; as questionning relations between the full and the empty, one of the points of oriental philosophy called "Tao". You can watch the VIDEO.

OKINAWA69 (Germany): http://www.myspace.com/okinawa69 Okinawa 69 Audiovisual resistance from Cologne, who's exact area of activity remains as mysterious as the name. You can never be entirely sure what Okinawa 69 is up to at the moment, but there is one thing you can be sure of - they will cross your path regularly in one way or another,- be it in a dark club, in a gallery or in some other unexpected venue. Shumi is the Supreme Commander of Music, well known beyond Cologne as a veritable Don of big beats, while Tasso is responsible for the visual conception and logistics, heating up the video projectors with his special equipment. Together, they have already rocked the house in many national and international clubs as well as supporting many renowned acts. 2010 DJs INFO

CODE 314 (BELGIUM)http://www.myspace.com/code314 He is an electronic producer working on a sample-based project since 2006. Music is now mainly electro dub / dubstep oriented, with heavy basslines and wonky hip-hop destructured beats. Co-founder of the belgian records label Spank Me More Records.LISTEN DJ SET

OSCAR BABANI (SPAIN)http://www.myspace.com/babanifriends Oscar Babani played in various clubs in Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany, England, Italy, France and Southern America. His interest in electronic music began mid 90..s, highly influenced by tech-pop. His technique behind the turntables is characterized by a great subtlety and taste in his music selection. For over three years, was the resident dj at La Cova, Barcelona and currently participates in underground events under the name Superfreak Nights.

SHUMI (GERMANY)http://www.myspace.com/okinawa69 Shumi has long been a key figure in Cologne’s music community, starting his DJ career in the late 90s. His residencies at some of Cologne's most important clubs in tandem with constant gigs at high-profile venues around Germany and Europe. His love for soulful, deep vibes transition seamlessly between minimal techno and straight house led him also to enter the production area, with his very first record „Jump For Joy“ being released in summer on the famous Cologne based label Kompakt. Besides tearing apart international dancefloors, Shumi also runs the multimedia project Okinawa 69.LISTEN DJ SET

PRINCE OFF (BELGIUM)http://www.myspace.com/princeoff Prince Off, dj & promotor, artistic director of the mythical P3P evenings between 2004 and 2007 who first made discover minimal music in Belgium with now very famous artists as Apparat, Trentmoller, Isolee, Losoul, Dj Koze, Wighnomy Brothers, T-raumschmere, Jay Haze, Jackmate, Akufen, etc. Organizer and resident dj of Sky Perfect, he has played almost everywhere: Resident at Maxim's (Paris), Club Monza (Frankfurt), Resident at The Ruche (Lausanne), Becool (Barcelona), The Gardens of Bagatelle (Paris), Fuse (Brussels), Dirty Dancing (Brussels), Kiosk (Lille), etc..

BESSUMI (Ankara)http://www.myspace.com/bessumi LISTEN DJ SET DJ'liğe 2008'de VJ Fest Istanbul'da Fransız Kültür Merkezi'nde Fransız VJ Kissdub'la başladı. "Dark minimal techno" çalıyor ve daha çok VJ'lerle birlikte gösteri yapıyor: Vjunk (Türkiye), Auderoseselavy (Fransa), Orchide Bite (Belçika), Scouap (Fransa), Bombaklak (Fransa).

DUNIQ (Istanbul)http://www.myspace.com/djduniq Profesyonel çalışmaya 2001'de başladı. 2003'e kadar birçok kulüple birlikte çalıştı ve İstanbul gece hayatının belli başlı kulüplerinde kendine bir yer edindi. Genellikle "house, tech house, minimal ve techno house" seslerini katı ayrımlar olmadan kendine özgü miks tekniğiyle birleştiriyor. Duniq çaldığı birçok yerde beğeniyle karşılanıyor.

NADR (Istanbul)http://djnadr.com LISTEN DJ SET Müzik çalısmalarına 2000'li yıllarda başladı. Kısa sürede ismini duyurdu ve kendine has bi dinleyici kitlesi oluşturdu. İstanbul'da bir çok kulüpte performans gösterdi ve büyük beğeni topladı. Türkiye'nin popüler djleri ile çalışma fırsatını bulan Nadir, ağırlıklı olarak "house ve techouse" çalıyor.