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This outdoor installation was made by TODO, a group of Italian “designers musicians geeks stalkers”. It was made with Processing, which is free and comes with excellent tutorials.
Found on Bruce Sterling’s blog Beyond the Beyond.
Jonny Wilson from Eclectic Method visited our 10th and 11th grade VJ-U classes at UAMA to give a hands-on show ‘n’ tell with the students. Check out the Flickr set linked below for more pictures of the kids scratching video. 
Thanks, Jonny!
Update
We’ve posted videos from Tuesday shot by Jorven (one of our students from last semester, actually) and Dan on the Internet Archive. They’re AVIs so your browser might not be able to play them — if so, let us know in the comments and we’ll put up some friendlier versions.
This Saturday at Eyebeam, Benton-C and Dan Winckler are performing in Brother Islands, a multimedia show about…the Brother Islands and all the terrible stuff that happened there.
November 17, 8–11PM: MIXER performance and party
Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St (between 10th Ave and 11th Ave), New York
Brother Islands (Places to Lose People) Cost: $10 After 9PM: $5
Limited tickets now available online
MIXER, Eyebeam’s new quarterly series showcasing live audio and video performance, launches with Brother Islands, a haunting tableau integrating audio and video recordings, stereographic photos and live theater. Eyebeam Education Fellow Benton-C Bainbridge creates an expanded documentary of North Brother Island half a century since its abandonment, as it fades from New York City’s map and its bleak buildings succumb to nature.
This tiny South Bronx Island was once notorious as a harsh quarantine and locus of misfortunate legends like Typhoid Mary and the General Slocum ferry disaster.
Stick around at 9PM for drinks and an exclusive A/V performance by The Jesse Stiles 3000, Bill Etra and vade.
Brother Islands performance ensemble: Benton-C Bainbridge, Minou Maguna, Ross Goldstein, Ryder Cooley, Dan Winckler, Matthew Schlanger, Jesse Stiles.
The Circus of Now designs and stages large-scale, immersive multimedia events — past clients include BMW, Diesel, UNICEF, Berlin’s Love Parade, Burger King, Sony and Universal Music. Aleksej Schön, director of Circus of Now, joins us on VJ-U to show and tell how CON brings together bleeding edge technology and designer/artists to make jaw-dropping, synaesthetic environments for its clients.
Watch this VJ-U netcast on Operator11.com
Yesterday on VJ-U I interviewed VJ Giles Hendrix, a 10 year veteran of the visual performance world who’s done visuals with Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buren, and, surprisingly, no one else with “van” in their name. Giles is a prolific, dynamic artist who creates original content for every show to give it a unique look and feel. Check our interview below, which was the first at our new host harvestworks. Thank you, harvestworks!
After the show, Giles and I headed to the Highline Ballroom, a fabulous new venue, for a party hosted by Thwak.com and Boards Magazine, where Jonny Wilson, a friend of VJ-U and member of the DVJ trio Eclectic Method, performed a kick-ass AV set. If you’re not familiar with EM, watch the Pioneer DVJ Kitchen Jam (scroll down to find it). At last night’s show, Tony Verderosa debuted his video drum kit, which Jonny helped create. It was hot. They used MIDI drum pads to trigger A/V clips in VJAMM. Looking forward to further developments there.
Since we interviewed vade, we’ve had four great interviews that we’ve neglected to post here…until now.
- dvadeset i dva: Applications in cross-modal media with Ray Sweeten
- ishirini na moja: Missy Galore!
- YOL-A-HUP: Interview with David Linton
- Dezoito: On collaboration and grids with Lenara Verle
Today on the VJ-U livecast Benton-C interviewed vade (a.k.a. Anton Marini) about analog versus digital, realtime visual performance, the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer and vade’s hothot work.
Watch VJ-U livecast episode DIECISÉIS
This week Marlon Barrios Solano interviewed Jaime del Val, the meta-composer, visual- dance- intermedia- artist, performer and queer activist.
Today on the netcast show Benton-C and Dan Winckler looked at several disassembled Rutt/Etra video synthesizers and discussed their history and usage and, more broadly, analog video art with Matthew Schlanger.
FEMTEN : hands-on with the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer