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WAR OF THE ROBOTS (HOLLAND) www.campattack.com
It is more recent project of VJ Camp Attack Visuals. It is a live cinema project, an audiovisual live performance featuring 5 robots, build from garbage found on the streets. So far hundreds of stop-motion scenes were recorded in a bluescreen studio, abandoned buildings, factories, harbours, shopping centres festival sites and weird distant locations all over Europe. The show brings the robots on stage, telling their story in a live HD video and audio performance, combined with their inbuild sound, light, smoke and laser effects.

PSM! (SPAIN) Electronic Live Cinema www.myspace.com/soldemexicoproducciones PSM! is a spanish band that produce “Electronic Live Cinema”. Four music and video producers link their skills in a stage to make a live : an audiovisual electronic journey. The Final result being “Electronic Live Cinema”. PSM! has recently created and produced his third Project: “50 minutes of lucidity”. (2011) It’s the story of a failure writer in fully production of his last novel. Under a grim life point of view the writer will face himself and his fears when writing his work. The show has a length of 50 minutes approximately. The band is performing during all the show building up the structure of the film; 2 artist with the audio are playing the music of the film and the other 2 artist are making the visual live editing. All at once. live video: http://vimeo.com/15233363

OUANANICHE (CANADA) http://poissonsmorts.com/fr/audio-video Ouananiche will perform his av remix "Matante Boom boom" at VJ FEST. Films and TV shows in a mixer for a creamy audio/video milkshake. Audiovisual mash-ups psychedelic live recorded in May 2009. Like Addictive TV in a rave... This is AV mash-up, so crank it up! He is one of those fish that swims against the tide. Under this enigmatic alias hides Cedric Chabuel, an audiovisual artist living in Montreal. Always inspired by human interactions, using technology, humor and even sometimes poetry, he favors narration to technical demos. Singled out in 2001 for his documentary "L'odyssée du Sample", he became active on the underground electronic music scene. By 2003 he morphed into Ouananiche, a VJ known for his original, concrete but nonetheless human approach of videos mixing, performing at electro, jazz, rock and world music concerts, sometimes theaters. At the same time he strives on being a creative radio producer for Arteradio.com and Radio Canada to only name a few. Notably making "Visa d'exploitation", a documentary about Nicolas Klotz's work with illegal immigrants (Arte editions), and also "Banff à Part", a series depicting the life of young Quebecois workers in Alberta. 

Active musician and video artist in a duet named Le Marionnettiste, he composed a video musical show entitled "Le Voyage de Marion" that uses VJ'ing and sounds as a modular progressive narration. Ouananiche is now performing audiovisual shows like "La Melodie de la Terreur", a live set of mashups based on horror b-movie culture or "Love on the Bit", a journey into digital love and sex on the web, where medias seemingly intertwine, indivisible, linked by their core.


Only Dead Fish go with the Flow.


Main appearances :
ANTI DVD from label V-Atak / Reduce, Reuse, Recyle DVD from label Dropframe / Festival International du Film d'Amiens / Festival des Réseaux de la Création / Festival Vision-R / Festival du Nouveau Cinema / Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois / Sight & Sound Festival / Festival International du Film d'Art de l'UNESCO / Reims Jazz Festival / Videodrome Toronto / Bokono Lé (in west Africa) / Rendez-Vous Électroniques / Festival Frictions / Festival ActOral / Festival Coma / Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival / Worldwide VJ Challenge...

FEDAYI PACHA (FRANCE) www.myspace.com/fedayipacha  Fedayi Pacha is performing live video with audio. As audio, has been fusing dub and oriental sounds since 2003, when he joined Bangarang, the dub collective from St Etienne/France. He mixes in his studio samples and guest musicians, computer and duduk (armenian oboe)..to draw with sound effects a landscape that streches from the Balkans to India.  After a bunch of featurings on different compilations (Combat Dub II, French Dub System, I Dub You....) the first album, “Dub Works (in mysterious waves)”, was released in 2005. Dub appeared as a producer music but technology allowes now to bring the entire studio on stage, exposing the deconstruction/reconstruction process. New musical encounters resulted from these concerts, which, besides France, took Fedayi Pacha to Slovenia, Morocco, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden, Belgium, Italy or Kosovo...Electroriental dub is now ready to invade the sound-systems !! VIDEO LINK 

COTTON AV (TURKEY) www.myspace.com/cottonav "Cotton AV" is an audio-visual performance group. It concentrates on the spectacle of live cinema with poetic and rythmic uses of video loops. The video loops consist of different visual material coming into form to create a non-linear improvised way of narrating stories. Some loops contain diverse material such as close ups of men/women/children/streets/highways to representations and formations of found-footage, home video and video art. The group consists of video artists Ozan Akıncı and Kaya Hacaloğlu along with musicians Şevket Akıncı and Volkan Ergen. VIDEO LINK

GÖZEL COLLECTIVE (TURKEY) http://gozel.tumblr.com/gozelradio Gözel Radio makes radio shows for various stations in Berlin, Istanbul, Postdam and Tijuana. Also, Gözel Radio played Dj Sets along with Vj sets in Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. The Dj sets consist of diverse sounds/artists from dubstab and mashub to noriental and beyond... As for Gözel Collective, in its audiovisual performances, it has focused on new measures of securitization, the undisputable acceptance of volunteering, neo-ottomanism, the rise of neoliberal family imams, and it currently works on "Helal Nurjuvampirism". VIDEO LINK

MONDUAL (TURKEY) www.myspace.com/monduallab
Istanbul-based electronic music duo, Mondual, was formed by Sair Sinan Kestelli and Tugrul V. Soylu in 2008 to create diverse soundscapes at various genres of electronic music. Their pieces were included at various electronic music collectives such as Soundlab VII (Cologne), Future of Digital Studies Conference (Florida), Sonic Art Jukebox (Oxford), ICMC (New York). They have also performed at ICMC 2010 New York Red Light Concert Series and various clubs and performance halls in Istanbul. Mondual explores wealthy possibilities offered by the digital platform with the use various sensors and controllers and wanders around the fuzzy borders between electronic and acoustic domains. Presentation of the outcomes is aimed to be a dynamic live performance with accompanying visuals interacting with the data flow. VIDEO LINK BARAN GULESEN (TURKEY) www.barangulesen.com Baran was born on March 31th in the capital of Turkey, Ankara, 1982. Currently living in Istanbul, Baran is a sound artist and electronic physical instrument designer. His professional experience started with meeting up with electronics and computer. He describes himself as an artist. He made sound, music and video production for various projects, such as theater, dance, TV and music album. He will perform his own audiovisual pieces and create a interactive visuals for VJ Fest. More info about his works: http://barangulesen.blogspot.com