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 Utrecht www.setuputrecht.nl SETUP 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.
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
VJ LAMIR (POLAND) http://www.myspace.com/wojlamir Vj LAMIR a.k.a Vj Wojlamir was connected with motion picture. Training and working for one of local TV station in Poland he gained experience. Starting as a cameraman assistant and successfully progressed to be involved in post production process which helped him to understand more about editing techniques and various methods. After Tomasz Cieslar moved to United Kingdomhe took a plunge into VJing. Based on his previous experience it wasn't so hard for him to find a way of expression and to implement new ideas of mixing videos together . So then all his projects went with him on to a stage with a new name VJ LAMIR. (Slot Art Festival 2007 [Poland], VJ FEST ISTANBUL 2008, Concert Hall in Poland on New Years Eve.)
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 visuals."
X-STATIC (TURKEY) www.myspace.com/james_x_static
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