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giraffentoast 

was founded in August 2000 by Philip Braun, Holger Markewitz-Peters and Jens Lueg in Hamburg, Germany. They are focused on cross-media solutions in: animation/film, web and print design.

The Hamburg based studio giraffentoast was founded in 2000 by Philip Braun, Holger Markewitz-Peters and Jens Lueg as a result of their passion for the art of VJing. In 2005 Bastian Seiler & Sarah Weidig joined the team and giraffentoast moved to commercial productions as well. The idea behind their business is to provide crossmedia-solutions. giraffentoast are collaborating with Germanys hottest graffiti artist Daim famous for his threedimensional styles.

 

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giraffentoast's spectrum in the area of moving image is manifold and often quite extraordinary. Their showreel goes from deep emotional corporate films to state of the art music clips.

To stay up to date giraffentoast performes constantly as live VJ on music and art festivals throughout Europe.

 

Source: giraffentoast website

 

 

Giraffentoast are one of the leading VJ teams in Germany. They've played at The Berlin Love Parade, created visuals for the likes of Levis and Smirnoff and recently won a Best VJ Award at Germany's famed Bochumer Video Festival. Their crafted and slick visuals have a fun feel to them.

 

Source: Addictive TV

 

 

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VJing (2010) is a reproduction of the Wikipedia article VJing, based upon the revision of July 25th 2010 and was produced as a physical outcome of the wiki-sprint, a collaborative writing workshop that was held 2010 in the frame of Mapping Festival, Geneva. (Greyscale Press)

VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture (2006) edited by D-Fuse. A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term denoted the presenter who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and in sync to music, whether at dance clubs and raves or art galleries and festivals. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this dynamic audio-visual experience. (Laurence King Publishing)

Audio.Visual - On Visual Music and Related Media (2009) by Cornelia Lund and Holger Lund (Eds.) is divided into two sections: the first deals with the academic discussion on the subject of visual music; the second introduces contemporary paradigms of audio-visual praxis in brief presentations and contextualises them. Apart from being a guide in the historical sense, this new volume provides theoretical approaches to understanding and making visual music. (Fluctuating Images)

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Vogelstimmen (2009) by Victor Morales was performed alongside Olivier Messiaen's Un Sourire played by the TonKünstler Orchestra at the Festspielhaus in St Pölten, Austria. Victor Morales was not looking for a representation or marriage of media/meaning. He used CryEngine 2 to make the 3D space/map and performed it using Quartz Composer to control the montage in realtime and to add some effects. (Victor Morales)

Transforma (Baris Hasselbach, Luke Bennett and Simon Krahl), a Berlin based video artist collective, combine the momentum of VJ improvisation with the power of highly composed imagery and narrative. Transforma started producing experimental video art in 2001 and have been taking their imageworld and production processes to higher levels of absurdity ever since. They have worked on promos, concert video and live cinema approaches, in collaboration with Apparat and Funkstörung among others, and have VJed in clubs in Berlin and around Europe. (CueMixMagazine)

Winterreise – Songs & Places (2010) is an exploration of Franz Schubert’s iconic song cycle where different spaces intersect in order to create a new and interesting performance. Real-time visuals generated with video games, surround music based on urban field recordings and Schubert’s Winterreise lyrical part were combined. Winterreise – Songs & Places is a collaboration between Victor Morales (visuals), Ulrike Sowodniok (voice and performance) and Hannes Strobl (Music). (Winterreise – Songs & Places)

playZero (2010) by Victor Morales was originally part of an opera called Playzero made at Festspielhaus St. Pölten in June 2010. Music by Wolfgang Mitterer.