AntiVJ: Songdo

(2009)

by Yannick Jacquet, Joanie Lemercier, Olivier Ratsi and Romain Tardy (visuals) and Thomas Vaquié (music) is a monumental video projection in Songdo City, South Korea.

In 2010 AntiVJ was invited by the Nabi Art Centre (Seoul) to develop a monumental video projection in Songdo City, which was at the time still under construction. "Here you can see the future of cities" says New Songdo City’s website. Refered to as a "u-City" ("u" for ubiquitous computing, a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction), Songdo City lies at the heart of New Incheon, a new economic hub in Seoul’s periphery. Built from scratch on an artificial peninsula, this city still under construction formed the backdrop to this mapping piece.

Questioning the relationship between the ancient and the new and the place of human beings in such a controlled and modernised environment, this piece might have an aftertaste of apocalypse. The importance of technology, the coexistence of the ancient and the new and the presence of the sea as both a calming and menacing element seem to be the fundamental ideas that have informed the creation and development of this model-city. The city of Songdo challenges man’s ability to plan a large scale construction work and, most of all, to reflect upon the impact of omnipresent technology on the traditional roles of the individual and social ties in such a modern city. AntiVJ’s artists produced an audiovisual piece exploring these ideas.

Source: Yannick Jacquet

AntiVJ: Songdo, vierecke, sacral, architecture, design, Live Visuals

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VJam Theory: Collective Writings on Realtime Visual Performance (2008) presents the major concerns of practitioners and theorists of realtime media under the categories of performance, performer and interactors, audiences and participators. The volume is experimental in its attempt to produce a collective theoretical text with a focus on a new criticality based on practitioner/ artist theory in which artist/ practitioners utilise theoretical models to debate their practices. (VJ Theory)

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)

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Yannick Jacquet (*1980) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Originally trained as a graphic artist, he now devotes his time to developing a personal language using video and a wealth of projection techniques. Yannick Jacquet's work is characterised by a desire to break out of the traditional formats of video-projection and finding ways to integrate video into the performance space. These ideas are developed and performed in the form of audiovisual performances, installations and scenography. (Yannick Jacquet)

3Destruct (2007) is a space of visual and sonic deconstruction by Yannick Jacquet , Jérémie Peeters (visuals) and Thomas Vaquié (music). Half way between light sculpture and 'penetrable' the installation offers an immersive experience in a non-linear world, where spatial coherence is lost. 3Destruct was originally designed specifically for the Biennale d’art contemporain, which took place in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium in 2007. (Yannick Jacquet)

Animal (2011) by Arnaud Gillette and Yannick Jacquet is a desire of contrast, a graphic point of view on a subject in variable curves, a show where the equestrian universe tells the classic space of the theater stage. The main actors of this part into dialogue with digital and music art are four horses, using lights and video installations. (Arnaud Gillette)

AntiVJ: Enghien (2009) by Yannick Jacquet, Joanie Lemercier, Olivier Ratsi and Romain Tardy (visuals) and Thomas Vaquié (music) is an audiovisual performance with video projection mapping/augmented architecture.

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Rhythm 23 (1923) - original title: Rhythmus 23. More complex than Rhythm 21, the film is nonetheless a logical extent of Richter's conviction that film is modern art. Again, the orchestration of basic geometric forms according to precise rhythmical patterns is the basis for this second experiment. (time4time)

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Study No. 7 (1931) - original title: Studie Nr. 7. This short film by Oskar Fischinger was one of a dozen 'studies' spanning the 1920s and '30s. This one is a gorgeous visual tone poem with a few small, dynamic white shapes popping decoratively out of a sea of blackness. (Dr. William Moritz, Canyon Cinema)

Michal Levy was born and raised in Israel and graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, in 2001. She currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she work as an art director. Since childhood, music, dance and painting have been an important part of her life and she has contributed to her passion for exploring the visualization of sound. (Michal Levy)

Trioon I (2003) by Karl Kliem. Music by Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Both elements of the music, an analog piano and a digital sinus wave, are represented by two overlapping visual elements: the fading sound of the piano by three abstracted octaves of a keyboard with the keys fading out just as softly as the tones fade from hearing. (Dienststelle)

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