VJ-U

Hi! Welcome to VJ-U, er, or our blog at least. We teach the art of live visual performance (or VJ-ing) to students young and old. You can find our open source curriculum on Wikiversity at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/VJ-U, our weekly video podcast on Operator11 at http://operator11.com/people/1777, and more about us on our personal sites below.We are Benton-C Bainbridge, Marlon Barrios Solano and Dan Winckler.We’re supported by Eyebeam Art & Technology Center and the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art.

On Tuesday Marlon Barrios Solano and I interviewed Dan Vatsky about his work with the performance collective Psychasthenia Society, his visuals, and his latest project The Last Friday, a live-action video game about Critical Mass. Watch the first and second halves of the show right here or check them out on Operator11.com.

Watch VJ-U show # hét on Operator11.

And here’s Part two,

In which Dan tells us about his VJ work with Isabelle Jenniches and his latest project The Last Friday, a live-action video game that raises awareness about NYC police action against the Critical Mass protesters.

VJ-U show # hét part II

And you can see all our previous shows (eight so far) on our Op11 profile.

Hi! We are VJ-U. We teach the art of live visual performance–or VJ-ing–to students of all ages. You can find our open source curriculum on Wikiversity and our weekly video podcast on Operator11. We are Benton-C Bainbridge, Marlon Barrios Solano and Dan Winckler. We are supported by Eyebeam Art & Technology Center and the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (UAMA).

Here’s a video some of our students made in Fall 2006 at UAMA. You can see more of our students’ work on YouTube.

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