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Antti Ahonen showcase

Antti A — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:11:16 +0000

Arabia maskerad

Antti A — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:06:13 +0000

Writing on Water by Peter Greenaway

Mesq — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:29:00 +0000

Peter Greenaway, whose visit to UIAH last spring will be long remembered... has added VJing into his repertoire. Writing on Water is a collaboration between Greenaway, composer David Land and calligrapher Brody Neuenschwander. So far, the performance has recieved mixed...

Motion studies music videos

Mesq — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:27:00 +0000

Found two 'motion studies' music videos in the ranks of videos.antville.org. Scott Otto Anderson did one (.mov, 12 MB) for Australian band Infusion. "Like Muyridge in the 80s", said one comment. Then, there's a conspicuously similar one by Olivier Gondry...

Hiphop VJing

Mesq — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:10:00 +0000

Workmate Jannis introduced me to his sophisticated VJ work with hip-hop artists Monarch & Thec, with whom he made his diploma work at UDK. It's delightful to see the use of computational design wizardry in meaningful ways. Hope to see...

Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser

Mesq — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:29:00 +0000

It is always nice to read from blogs, what your friends do. My flatmate Markus made a neat installation called Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser - where, in short, four webcam streams are projected on 3D miniatures of the very same places. Seems like...

UMF + koneisto 2005 + flow 05 festivals

juhuu — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:42:10 +0000

Amfibio crew members and fellow VJs have a busy month in August, providing the visuals for three major festivals (UMF + koneisto + flow) and a few other events… Check out the details at katastro.fi/visuals!

Mesq — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:53:00 +0000

Nokia get into VJ business. Sense the Connection is a playful competition for mixes made with their own Nokia VJ tool. Couldn't check it out yet because it only works with Explorer. Winners get to a private party with Sister...

Amfibio-Selfish Shellfish pictures

Antti A — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:43:31 +0000

More pictures on my diary page

Selfish Shellfish with Amfibio visuals

Antti A — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:06:00 +0000

Selfish Shellfish meets Amfibio, this time in Taidekoulu Maa in Suomenlinna. Showtime fri 3.6.2005 klo 32.00.

Eurovision visuals

Antti S — Sun, 22 May 2005 17:47:18 +0000

I was in a bar yesterday and just happened to watch through the entire Eurovision song contest. I noticed that along with the usual stage antics of dancers, lights, rotating mirrors and flame throwers the show sported computer-generated visuals. This reminded me of an article in Helsingin Sanomat that I cut out one year ago. It is about the team behind the lights and visuals of the whole contest. Apparently they rely on sponsors who like to test the newest light, projection etc. technologies there. And showy and flashy the stage was. But what about the visuals themselves?

I dare say it looked like any club visuals you would see in Helsinki. Colorful abstract patterns flowed across several screens, as interesting as tapestry, and I couldn’t help noticing many old demoscene effects such as the flame and plasma were rehashed. But maybe they were just fullfilling the very function of visuals in a larger sense?

Nevertheless, it is a VJ’ing career opportunity for those who it might concern.

Minter’s realtime visuals go Xbox 360

Antti S — Sun, 22 May 2005 17:16:46 +0000

Jeff Minter, a cult figure in the computer game industry, has gotten his latest “light synthesizer” Neon built into the Xbox 360. Its a piece of realtime software that syncs on both audio and four joypads. I like the sample movies - they take the hypnotic, multi-layered Winamp plugin aesthetics to the extreme, but with certain style and at least visible audio syncs. You should read his light synths’ history as well: it seems this guy has been combining psychedelia with computer programming already in the early 80’s. Computer shows, realtime art, Pink Floyd, “smoked spliffs” and Atari ST’s. Well, I find it curious.

Collaborations with Amoeba et al

Antti S — Sun, 22 May 2005 16:39:11 +0000

Inventive, idiosyncratic and international! Or how would you describe a dozen artists from several different nationalities performing inside an inflatable bubble? This is how I spent my Friday night a couple of weeks ago. Below in the pictures by Antti Ahonen the bubble is first constructed by Amoeba and then used as a projection medium. During the evening, Amoeba Technologies [US], 2012 [RU], Kokeellisen Elektroniikan Seura, Amphibio [sic!] and Pseudotoad did their damnedest to fill the air with laptop music, strong breakbeats, experimental electronic sounds, curious speech samples, video clips, dia projections and audio synced code visuals. As one would imagine, it proved to be very interesting.

Antti S at PikselLiveCD

Antti S — Sun, 22 May 2005 15:08:10 +0000

The people at piksel.no are putting together a liveCD (which is a bootable Gnu/Linux CD) with Piksel software and artwork. Actant Automatique by Antti S, a small display of audio sync which is an excerpt from a larger VJ software of his, sees its first appereance there. Antti provides two mp3 tracks with the package, but you can use it with your own songs as well.

The program unfortunately only works in Gnu/Linux at the moment. (But if you know what you’re doing, compiling for Windows or Mac OSX won’t requre drastic changes.)

Mesq — Wed, 18 May 2005 10:46:00 +0000

Khronos Projector by Alvaro Cassinelli is an interactive installation that allows people to explore the temporal dimension of a movie by touching the screen. Just watch the demo video - it explains how clever it is!...

Mesq — Tue, 03 May 2005 12:29:00 +0000

Fantastic blogger we make money not art has published her notes from Golan Levin's keynote at Cybersonica festival - titled 'Audiovision and Computation: Landmarks, Paradigms, Futures'. Good read for everyone of us working at the sound and vision department. Levin...

Amoeba visiting from NY

Antti A — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:28:13 +0000

Amoeba technologies from NY are visiting Helsinki 1.5-12.5. They will perform in Gloria 4.5, on La-Bas in Valssaamo 6.5 and in Kolinaklubi in vuoritalo 10.5.

Very interesting group, been around for a long time and done some VJ:ing for Psychic TV.

I will be houstng them myself, and doing some collaborations with some gigs as well. So do not mis.

-AnttiA

Mesq — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:48:00 +0000

Hack a Day reports of a trick that helps you convert an old tube TV into an oscilloscope. Just remember that opening up old tellies can be dangerous.....

Mesq — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:29:00 +0000

Finally got to see Umbra - a dance and multimedia performance at Lume. There was a good deal of positive energy in the show, A-OK and two thumbs up especially to Markku, who is a fellow from Media Lab and...

New platform

Petri L — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:52:10 +0000

Updates have been awfully rare even though some amfibians have been veejaying their hats off. So we moved the site to a proper blog platform, WordPress, and who knows - this might make just the needed last mile to get us all lazy visualists to tell something about our gigs. At least now it is easier than ever, but only time will tell.

Update: For a start posts will be syndicated from Mesq and Pseudotoad websites.