Upgrade! Zagreb: Anne Roquigny and WJ-S Workshop :: October 3-7, 2011 :: net club mama, Preradoviceva 18, Zagreb, Croatia.

DJs / VJs / WJs — WJ-S is a software and a flexible public device for web performances allowing WJs (webjays, artists, curators, web addicts, web mutants…) to play live with online text, sound and visual… WJs take the control of a multiscreens environment and surf at distance in different browser windows simultaneously. WJ-S is a visible and collective experience of the surf. WJ-S is an immersive experience in the flux. Continue reading

Discontrol Party by Samuel Bianchini (EnsadLab / DRii) :: June 24-25, 2011 8:00 pm - 2:00 am :: La Gaíté lyrique, 3, bis rue Papin, Paris.

Discontrol Party is a dispositif which brings together two worlds: that of state-of-the-art surveillance techniques and that of partying. The dancefloor/ live music venue/ performance space will appear in the dual spotlight of a partying event and a data-driven control and surveillance system (computer vision, RFID, recording by smartphones, etc.) The main space of the Gaíté Lyrique becomes for the space of one evening a night-club set up as a control room: far from light effects or other VJing, the participants, while partying, are confronted by multiple visualizations of the information technology system which observes them and seeks to analyze their behavior. Continue reading

Daisy Chain: An Anarchic Performance Event :: May 13, 2011; 6:00 - 10:00 pm :: Antena, 1765 S. Laflin, Chicago, Illinois :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: April 30.

Daisy Chain is an interconnected series of performances that will be featured at Antena Gallery while simultaneously occurring across the Internet. Performances should incorporate one or more other performances in the series via projection, monitor, laptop or audio in the performance space. This will require an active Internet connection during the performance as well as two computers or devices that can access Ustream.com. Continue reading

VJ Um Amel Remixes A Revolution by Dylan Schenker, posted on March 1, 2011 on the Creators Project (Thanks to Franck Ancel):

What the World Tweeted on #Egypt the day Mubarak Resigned from VJ Um Amel on Vimeo.

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MindTouch by Camille Baker — part of Unity Exhibition 09 :: December 17, 2009; 5:30 - 6:30 pm :: London University and online.

Come and play with your mobile phone or join us online. Making live, collaborative streaming video collages/ mixes, you can VJ with your friends remotely and stream the mix back to your phone… with your smartphone, vj with the world!!

There will be two groups live in London and the remote online or mobile participants. The live setting is a party context and the remote group can see what’s going on through the live mixed videos or contribute your own.

MindTouch by Camille Baker, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute:

The intention of this project is to contribute to performance technology studies by investigating ‘liveness and presence’ within the context of a specific networked, mobile media performance research project, currently underway, in order to uncover any new understandings that may have emerged from the use of new wireless and mobile technologies.

This project explores ideas of non-verbal transference, telepathic collaboration, and the participant as performer, using biofeedback and mobile phone technology under meta-goals of studying “liveness” within mobile networked environments. Continue reading

Discontrol Party :: November 20, 2009; 10:00 pm - 3:00 am :: Espace Pasolini, International Theatre, 2 rue Salle Le Comte, 59300 Valenciennes, France.

A party where future devices of control are put to the test: surveillance cameras, face detection, identification (RFID), traceability. A series of concerts in an interactive setting reacting to its public. A live collective and artistic experience!

Discontrol Party is a device that combines two worlds: the world of highly developed surveillance technologies and the party world. The dance floor and the venue are constructed with regard to the projectors lights as well as to a computerized control system (computer vision, RFID, etc.). Continue reading

E-art on AIR — Interactive Artworks for Mobile Phones offered via SMS:

E-art on Air is MobileVideoNet’s latest exercise in public art and popular culture. For one year, artists, designers and vj’s will create interactive images for mobile phones and handheld media on a monthly base. These animated backgrounds will react to unique characteristics of the media its viewed on, like battery strength, signal reach or the time of day.

The launch of E-art on Air is taking place at the Twente Biennale in Hengelo, 17-20 September 2009. For this event MobileVideoNet’s crew - artists Gerco Lindeboom and Danny Jeroense - created the first two works. During the next year these interactive artworks, and many others, are distributed by our MobileVideoNet SMS Service 2211. Continue reading

Plateaux Festival :: November 19 - 22, 2009 :: Poland.

A 4-day festival presenting the world’s leading groundbreaking multimedia artists, praised and prize-winning audiovisual and VJ art, experimental films, and live electronic and electroacoustic music. A fully interactive event, Plateaux will be spread across Poland’s two adjacent and culturally rich cities of Toruń and Bydgoszcz, combining a number of different venues to create the widest possible range of multimedia and audiovisual performances.

Plateaux is committed to providing an extra depth of experience beyond simple spectatorship. For this reason, artists performing during the festival will also act as guide and teachers in workshops, lectures and discussions, addressing the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of audiovisual domain. Continue reading

Qualitative Analysis of Visual Performance Algorithms as a Function of Internet Search Queries from Amy Alexander on Vimeo.

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