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Visual Berlin arbeitet gerade im wunderschönen Thüringen.Wir filmen in Manufakturen um Jena herum die in Sachen Wissenschaft und Forschung in dieser Gegend arbeiten.Denn Jena löst nächstes Jahr Braunschweig ab und wird Stadt der Wissenschaft 2008.Visual Berlin unterstützt Rampazzo und fem Ilmenau bei der dicken Videoinstallation für die “lange Nacht der Wissenschaft” auf dem Jenaer Ernst-Abbe Platz am 16.11.07 wird. Das wird fein.Heute waren wir in der Farbglashütte Lauscher wo uns die Glasblasprinzessin Jana durch die modernen Anlagen der Hütte führte.Vorsicht Glas ist ne heisse Angelegenheit…
Licht aus moruk
HilmiKillme

edition 4 :: light installation

this time we are going to fly screening objects
and compose Laser and visuals to give you a surround experience.

feel the light:

www.spindlerklatt.com, koepenikerstrasse 16/17, 10997 berlin,

cu, jorgk

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Bin gerade auf das Remix TAKE THE LEAD

von Addictive TV gestossen. Finde ich sehr schön und dieses D-mit-V-J-ing sehr spannend. Das Video gibts auf der Addictive TV Seite auch noch in besserer Qualität als Quicktime und nicht diese Flash-Grütze. Ähnliches hat zwar Coldcut schon vor zehn Jaren mit Timber gemacht

abba dennoch …
Ach und Samstag war ich übrigens mit Fred hier bei Kiki Bohemia, nicht wirklich aber quasi doch mit dem guteMedien TAXI.

1 jahr club couch, gibts noch einen anderen laden der jede woche wechselnde visualisten an den start zubringen, grund genug sich ein paar minuten zeit zu nehmen und mal reinzuschauen. ich muß zugeben das ich länger nicht mehr da gewesen bin und daher nicht genau sagen kann ob die umstrukturierung tatsächlich neuigkeitswert besitzt. am klassischen eingang vorbei wurden ich und meine begleitung erstmal in eine kleine ausstellung der grumildos gelotst.

angenehm durchgeknallte figuren hängen in marionettenspieler-maschinen und bewegen sich in meditativem exzess. schöner einstieg in dem Möbelfabrik kellerabend.
am einlaß traf ich dann den stolzen jubilar, dem man durchaus die tage mal für den durchhaltewllen auf die schulter klopfen darf. mathis war wie zuerwarten ein wenig im stress, also setzten wir uns bei bier in richtung beamer um dem visuellen programm von legoman unsere aufmerksamkeit zu schenken. wo man normalerweise visualisten und visuals in einer blickrichtung hatte gab es an diesem abend schnittchen. ja sehr lecker und einigermaßen günstig wurden wir mit ein paar kalorien versorgt. umso entspannter der genuss belgischer qualitästvisuals.

legoman bot eine schöne show typografischer bildanimationen, in gut komponierten layouts bewegten sich hochkontrastige bilder in einer vornehmlich schwarzweißroten farbwelt, ich, steh ja drauf.

Legoman

da wir natürlich ein bisschen zu früh waren um uns ins richtige tanzvergnügen zu stürzen wurde uns die zeit von einem zauberer verkürzt, ich muß zugeben das mir zauberer auf feierlichkeiten immer ein wenig anachronistisch vorkamen, ich aber in letzter zeit viel spass mit dieser sparte des entertainments hatte. und gestern im zmf war ein ziemlich souveräner vertreter dieser gattung am start. ich meine wenn das publikum gerade einen verdacht entwickelt wie seine sinne getäuscht werden sollen, immer noch einen rauszuhauen der all diese verdachtsmomente wieder in luft auflöst, ist ganz großes kino.

ich wünsche mathis und dem zmf mindestens ein weiteres jahr guter nachtgestaltung und hoffe in nächster zeit auch wieder öfter meine freitagabende dort zu verbringen, vielleicht trifft man sich.

1mal @ PIONEER-ALPHA-FESTIVAL in schwerin +
1mal @ 7 JAHRE MILARO COM – PONY BOYS ATTACK

fRED, Bram and Flux went to the Live Performers Meeting in Rome to showcase their work, represent VisualBerlin and hook up with the international AViT scene…

DAY 1 – Lost Highway

DAY 2 – Linuxclub

DAY 3 – Viva La Felicita

Day 3 was chaotic again – as expected. We woke up too late, injected some dual core espressi, and fought our way through the friday high noon traffic mayhem all the way to the St. Peter’s Dome. Finding a place to park was almost impossible and took us almost half an hour. Finally we were there, on the big plaza, shooting some clips, getting nods and smiles from chinese tourists and confused looks from others who saw us in our costumes.

We returned to the basement as soon as possible to tune into the final phase of cutting, editing and preparing for our set. This took a long time and our camera seemed to be fucked up at last – it decided spontaneously whether to spit out or just eat the dv tape – we had lost control. Eventually all material got digitized and we started to get a bit releived when Bram returned from a short walk around the block to buy coffee and mumbled something about our car not being where we parked it. fRED and Bram went back to the place and indeed – the Audi was gone!!!

Panically we talked with Michael, our kind host, who phoned the police and fRED, Bram and him went to the police station to find out that the beloved automobile had been taken to the deposit because of parking in a prohibited area (which is funny because there were so many other cars in that street which didn’t get pulled off) – so two hours later and 120 EUR lighter the car was back in our property, but we lost hours of preparation time and hundreds of nerves…

We drove to the Linux Club rightaway, dressed up and ready to rock, but we still had a few hours to wait until we would spit out our flickering mayhem, so we spent the next hours socializing and watching the showcases and workshops.

There were quite a few interesting talks: about the node based open source media programming environment Pure Data, which seemed to have developped a lot within the last years and comes closer and closer to the power of Max/Jitter. The French crew talked about vjfrance.com and the Italian base presented ‘vjing tube’ – a fancy web 2.0 portal for VJs to share and discuss their videos. There were many audiovisual showcases which we liked, but whose artist names we totally forgot – and some other arty farty noise performances that bored us a bit. artificialeyes.tv rocked the house with their VMS projectors and their decadent pile of macbook pros.

Late at night, paki, who was responsible for the schedule of the festival, was already trapped in fear and loathing because he had to cram dozens of artists into the final hours of the night. We had been waiting for so long to show our prepared live set and didn’t want to leave Roma without having shown a single frame. He told us that our set would be “after 3″ and we decided to take a walk down via Ostiense to get our obligatory caffeine dose. There, we sat in a small bar, together with Soni Riot and some other known faces, enjoyed our caffé, listened to Village People and got into a better mood.

Some time around 4am we finally went on stage, really nervous and with a handful of vodkas in our brains, and shot our set out onto the beamers, blinded by flashes, confused by the chaotic “technical support” – our set had turned out to become an audiovisual set together with Bram – and after almost an hour shwich felt like 10 minutes, the mayhem was over and we packed our stuff and emptied the vodka bottle quickly. Outside we smoked and tried to remember how the gig went – it had been a big chaos with lots of difficulties and we were both happy and really pissed off at the same time – confusion!

Later that night we enjoyed the live set of Soni Riot and chatted with artificialeyes, the “pirate”, Dr. Nojoke and some other drunk veejays until the sun had risen. Bram and fRED wanted to drive to Berlin rightaway but after Flux had laughed and looked at them in agony – the plan was cancelled and we drove back to our accomodation location to fall into a short, noisy and dreamless sleep.

On the next day, we packed everything up and started our long trip back home at noon. Amazingly, 15 minutes later we were already on the highway – and on the first gas station, we poured fresh orange juice and caffé into our heads and headed up north. We took Olli with us, the audio-part of Soni Riot and after eleven hours of schmoove cruising through Italy and Austria, we finally arrived at Bergen, Bavaria, where Olli invited us to a nice italian restaurant where we had huge pizzas (we had zero pizzas in itally – funny eh?). fRED, who had been sleeping almost the whole day, drove the final lap up to Berlin and around 6am we arrived in Berlin to fall into our beds…

So after a not to long night and some little surprises regarding underground and water temprature, we spend the afternoon in our great studio somewhere in rome. its still a lot of stuff to do for our performance on saturday.
But we are not only here to sit behind our machines, so we took our car and made a rush-hour trip to linux-club, its amazing and we hope that we remember the way back.

Now we are in here to socialize a little. the athmosphere is nice and relaxed, inside the first performances take place and i’m looking forward to see some really nice stuff. at the moment our friends from avit visionaire paris are talking about all the projects they did the last year and i have to say every performer should keep an eye on their stuff.
After a little talk about avit worldwide network we did afterwards, with gianluca from lpm and thodd from artificialeyes, covering avit.info issues, plans and dreams (avit is alive!), we now see a really amazing av-performance. to girls and a guy put a lot of gear on the stage and perform in a really synaesthetic way. mostefprod is their name, if you got the chance to see them, take it.

quite esotheric in a way, but a really nice ambient connection between sound and visual impression.
So far for now i will enjoy the next hours a bit and maybe we get a short video together for you folks.