AntiVJ just moved to a new studio in Central Bristol !

We now work in a really nice open space at Pervasive Media studio, with a large desk do to origamis, models and mess around with techy gadgets, a meeting space, to plan projects and discuss ideas, and a wonderful chillout area, to read magazines, relax and play Wii..
We share the space with HP labs, BBC, winners of the Media SandBox grant and freelancers, and it's an amazing opportunity to share ideas and start collaborations with other creative people involved in similar projects.


So if you are interesting in working with us, or want to discuss a visual project, drop us a line and feel free to come down for a tea.. We are just between the Imax cinema and the planetarium.

By the way we also have meeting spaces in Brussels and Paris, so if you're not in UK we can arrange something anyway.


Many thanks to Clare Reddington and Emma Scott, Pervasive Media Studio, and Ished for making it happened, and for taking us out of our small home studio.

 
Hi there !

I've been away from this blog for a while, busy with new projects, editing videos, preparing the new year, and I didn't have a chance to stop until now..
Great news, I'm proud to announce that we're about to launch AntiVJ, a new visual label, which is a platform to produce projects based on the visual element. This project is a collaboration with some artists I really like. We became friends and realized we are sharing the same ideas and vision of our work, so we decided the collaborate more put a name on it.

AntiVJ is a visual label initiated by European-based artists whose work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on our perception.

Clearly stepping away from standard setups & techniques, AntiVJ presents live performances and installations where projection on volume, visual mapping, tracking and augmented reality, stereoscopy and holographic illusion are providing to the audience a senses challenging experience.

 

For the last week of the year, I'm having a well deserved few days of holidays, just between Switzerland and Austria, enjoying snowboard (the weather and snow is perfect this week).

The blog will be back in a couple of days with fresh new stuff:
- Lightup Bristol report: video of my set, a 1600 m2 mapping projection.
- Cuisine 12: report of our latest clubnight, with visuals from Digital slaves.
- Inode: a new A/V project, with origamis and a 3D projection in a 4 meters cube.
- AntiVJ: launch a our new visual label.
- An invisible touchscreen interface I'm working on, built with vvvv.


Thanks a lot for all your comments and emails, it's nice to see that many people interested in live visuals.. The blog gets more and more visitors each month since I did the first post in 2006:

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160 000 hits
50 000 unique visitors
20 000 hits / month
videos: 100 000 views
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Here are a few other links if you are interested:
Flickr - Youtube - Myspace crustea - Myspace AntiVJ - AntiVJ website

I'm going away from the computer now, the snow looks amazing outside :)

 

A new very exciting project ! Some Bristolian creative agencies are teaming up to produce and project moving images on the council house building during the week before christmas.

2006
The Lightup Bristol project started last year, with some still images projections designed by Aardman Animations, Play Nicely, Watershed, and the organisers were interested in having me on board after seeing my mapping technique on Youtube (mapping on my neighbours house).

A few pictures from last year event:
             

There will be an afterparty at the end of the week, Cuisine, the 21st of december at Timbuk2.

                

Technical setup:
- Custom screens and installation.
- 6 x 8 000 lumens video projectors + 1 x 12 000 lumens.
- hundreds of meters of vga and RGB cables.
- 8x8 VGA Matrix switcher, signal amplifiers
- 4 laptop computers (all Apple, running on Modul8) with multi output support.
- 7 different video signals (with a dualhead and a triplehead 2 Go)
- Loads of different Midi controlers. 

The result was a very impressive and immersive setup, the crowd was literaly surrounded by amazingly well produced visuals (ratsi, Aalto and Lego_man all have very unique visuals, but with some commons points in style and subjects, and their content blends really well together) and this setup created a very cutting edge experience for the audience.
To be honest the audio lineup in this room was good, but didn't sound "that" special, and it's funny to realize that sometimes the visual element is starting taking over the music side, and I'm convinced that many people that will come back for the visual lineup, and because of the great visual experience they had, which left much more souvenirs than the usual silhouette of a dj pushing records.

Video report
Here's a short video (edited by Lego_man) which might talk by itself :



It's a bit of a shame that the Lighting was a bit random and didn't really add anything, organisers might have better switch that off rather than having multicolored oldschool and disco patterns overlaying the projections sometimes, but anywayyyyy....

It was great to hookup with Pikilipita (which actually is from Caen, before he left to London to hack gameboys), grominet and other nice friendly people.


Radio interview
Aalto and Lego_man have been interviewed on a local radio show (at 4AM during the festival), and I was around to show some support while ratsi was busy playing live.
If you don't fluently understand french, here's a good opportunity to practice.. :)



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