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vjtalks

VJ Talks are an initiative by avit to encourage peer-to-peer exchange and understanding. Simply put, when you've got a festival full of VJs, it would be a shame not to share. So stepping out behind the laptops, avit has encouraged artists to talk about their work and the issues facing vjing. First held at Contact Europe, Berlin, 2004, vjtalks were revived for 2008's Live Performers' Meeting, where we have tried to condense down the round-table discussions into some short, filmed interviews that can be shared online.

01

Live Performers' Meeting
29^thMay 2008

"Digital Freedoms Day"

Jaromil announces freej v0.10 and talks about open-source media tools, including the dynebolic live cd distro

Jaromil Roio
http://dyne.org

download url: http://avit.info/video/avit-vjtalk-01.mov

02

Live Performers' Meeting
30^thMay 2008

"8-bit Day"

akira hosts a discussion on 8-bit culture, artist residencies and more.

akira (kikencorp)
www.kikencorp.com
blanca (whiteemotion)
www.whiteemotion.com
claire (homemade)
homemade on myspace
ilan (decrepticon)
www.decrepticon.us www.modul8.us

download url: http://avit.info/video/avit-vjtalk-02.mov

03

Live Performers' Meeting
31^stMay 2008

"Satur...Day"

Fred with a wholly roman round talking to Diego about audio-visual connection and to LPM organiser Gianluca

fRED (=ff=)
http://effeff.tv
Diego (Klipman)
klipman on lpm08 Gianluca Del Gobbo
flyer on lpm08

download url: http://avit.info/video/avit-vjtalk-03.mov

04

Live Performers' Meeting
1^stJune 2008

"Visual Genders Day"

Todd discusses putting yourself into the visuals with flux and joanna, and Brendan rounds up many of the discussed themes during the festival

Todd (synesthete)
http://synesthete.com Flux (=ff=)
http://effeff.tv
Joanna (deftoo)
deftoo on myspace Brendan (VJ Theory)
http://vjtheory.net

download url: http://avit.info/video/avit-vjtalk-04.mov