http://www.amfibio.org Live Video Cooperative Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:26:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.amfibio.org/archives/antti-ahonen-showcase/ http://www.amfibio.org/archives/arabia-maskerad-2/ 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000340.html 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000335.html 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000299.html 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000294.html 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! http://www.amfibio.org/archives/umf-koneisto-2005-flow-05-festivals/ 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000289.html http://www.amfibio.org/archives/amfibio-shellfish-shellfish-pictures/ Selfish Shellfish meets Amfibio, this time in Taidekoulu Maa in Suomenlinna. Showtime fri 3.6.2005 klo 32.00. http://www.amfibio.org/archives/selfish-shellfish-with-amfibio-visuals/ 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/eurovision-visuals/ 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/minters-realtime-visuals-go-xbox-360/ 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/collaborations-with-amoeba/ 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/a-silvast-at-piksellivecd/ 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!... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000274.html 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000272.html 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 ... http://www.amfibio.org/archives/amoeba-visiting-from-ny/ 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..... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000270.html 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... http://www.koti.org/mesq/archives/000268.html 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. ... http://www.amfibio.org/archives/new-platform/