The vision'R festival like the Mapping festival presented a broad variety of digital time-based artists, theorists, designers and much much more. Both of these events were dense in experience and rich with information. There is not enough time for you to watch and comment on everything at this point in the semester. What I'd like you to do is to review as many of the special "Special iPodU vision'R" iTunes video posts as you can and post your response in general or in specific to the vision'R blog. The vision'R videos are found under the NMD 430 iTunes section.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
vision'R Review Special iPodU Session Response
The vision'R festival like the Mapping festival presented a broad variety of digital time-based artists, theorists, designers and much much more. Both of these events were dense in experience and rich with information. There is not enough time for you to watch and comment on everything at this point in the semester. What I'd like you to do is to review as many of the special "Special iPodU vision'R" iTunes video posts as you can and post your response in general or in specific to the vision'R blog. The vision'R videos are found under the NMD 430 iTunes section.
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Laurent
- started the festival. Wanted to create a network that related to vjing and have a large vjing institution festival.
Its amazing how just a few people can put together such a large event that accomplishes so much. I would love to visit a festival like this one day. I reall would consider attending the class you spoke of having in May that attends the festival in rome at the end of the month.
Watching all these videos makes me want to be there, makes me want to perform and do this kind of thing. I talked about this in another thread but where all all these festivals in America? We should start one, it seems like its all happening over seas, lets make it happen here.
I agree about the festivals. I looked online and found like 10 different festivals that go on over here (Europe) and there are very little that happen in America. Even if you count music festivals there are what maybe three that I can think off off the top of my head (in America). We should start one... Capstone anyone?
The one thing that seems to come across in a number of the video's is that when VJ-ing first started it really couldn't be done properly because it was all on VHS. The personal computer/Laptop really is the tool that was needed for it to take the next step. My question is this, what is the next tool? and what will we do with it? what's the next step?
Watching these videos has really made me realize the possibilities and opened my eyes to all the different artists and what they are doing all around the world. As Chris said , there is very little of this in America, and being abroad has opened my eyes to this, along with the lectures. Europe does a lot wit the arts, and I have enjoyed being at a media school abroad, and listening to all the lecturers and the constant 'art/media' shows. Students here are constantly showing there work and travelling to other parts of Europe to gain more knowledge and have a wider expansion of ideas.
The possibilities are endless. There are no limits. who will make the next step?
to address the concerns of why there are no festivals like this in the united states, you've got to look at socioligical causes like our deeply seeded attachment to individualism, and our extremely capitalist philosophy. In the United States, we are fiercely independent. This doesn't just mean we like to be our own people, it means we don't want to have anything to do with the success of anybody else. Self preservation is the name of the game. If you pursue a career in art or new media, you are running the risk of becoming useless in the eyes of society. You are not contributing any marketable product, simply leeching of the system (in the eyes of the majority). There is little or no support for the arts by the government. Because so few people are willing to risk life in crushing poverty in the name of making art, there aren't many hardcore artists here. Therefore, there is not enough interest to hold festivals on this scale.
You'd think that in such a visual culture that we live in that the United States would embrace the things they're doing over seas and become a contributor to VJing, however that doesn't seem to be the case. After watching these videos I've really had my eyes opened to the possibility of pursuing VJing in general as I haven't investigated it much and am now motivated to do so after seeing the possibilities that it presents.
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