This blog is a research notepad of Nuno N Correia, Doctor of Arts candidate at Media Lab Helsinki. His research plan is entitled “Interactive Audio-Visual Objects.” It also reflects upon his work as part of Video Jack, along with André Carrilho. Nuno has received a scholarship from FCT, Portugal, for his research. More info on his research: http://blog.videojackstudios.com/archives/462[...] [more]
Video Jack’s YouTube playlist of videos related to Visual Music: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4AC134C3EF3501C9[...] [more]
This is a review of DVDs related to visual music acquired and viewed between 2000 and 2009.[...] [more]
This was the second time Video Jack participated in the PixelAche festival, folowing the 2007 edition:[...] [more]
MFO (visuals) and Hecq (music) performed at the Temps d’Images festival in Tallinn (Von Krahl theatre), 26/2/2009. Both MFO and Hecq had new material to present. MFO (Marcel Weber and collaborators) showcased their new visuals, inspired by science, the cosmos, and the “Uriania Universum” East German magazine. Hecq (Ben Lukas Boysen) played material from his new album, bringing together ambient elements from his previous release with IDM elements.[...] [more]
Video Jack (me and André Carrilho) performed twice on the Electro Mechanica Festival. On 13/11/2008, we presented our main Audio-Visual projects so far: Heat Seeker, AVOL, and Master and Margarita. We also talked about the projects and had a Q&A session with the audience. In the end, members of the audience came on stage to talk with us and take a closer look at the software we have developed.[...] [more]
In September 2008, the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK) released issue 35 of their Working Paper series, edited by me (together with Blanca Acuña). The title is: “Digital Tools – A New Way to Interact with the World” and contains five papers on that theme by authors from Media Lab Helsinki (TaiK’s school of digital design).[...] [more]
This year we played for the second time in the NAME festival in Lille, France. Again, this proved to be an extremely well organized festival, with great DJs, VJs, live music, and new media installations.[...] [more]
This report does not aim to cover exhaustively the themes approached on the “Ontology of Singularity” course, but rather to explore a few themes, crossing the explorations during the lectures, conducted by Juha Varto, with further readings.[...] [more]
Video Jack performed at the Abertura event in Lisbon, Portugal, for the second year in a row.
From the website http://www.visual-agency.net/abertura2/:[...] [more]
Some excerpts from the website
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/create2008/:[...] [more]
After participating in the VJ competition in the previous edition of the festival, I was invited this year to be part of the VJ competition jury.[...] [more]
The Re:New digital arts festival took place between 16 and 23 May and featured “more than 150 works of music, video, and installations in any form and combination.” (http://www.re-new.dk/2008)[...] [more]
Cartes Flux Festival took place between 6 May and 18 May 2008, in Espoo (Helsinki area), Finland.[...] [more]
Video Jack were among the audio-visual artists to be showcased at the “OPTRONICA – HYBRIDATIONS SONORES ET VISUELLES” exhibition @ Galerie Le Cube, Paris. The exhibition lasted from 31/1/2008 to 26/7/2008.[...] [more]
Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard (2000), “The Double Logic of Remediation”, in:
Remediation: Understanding New Media, Cambridge: MIT Press[...] [more]
How do designers of information technology understand the interaction between the users and devices? How do they design user interfaces? This question is important if we want to talk about integration of architecture and information technology. I my talk I will analyze the recent shift in information technology design. Contrary to ten years ago, today the designers no longer try to make the interfaces invisible. Instead, the interaction is treated as an event – as opposed to “non-event”, as in the previous “invisible interface” paradigm. Put differently, using personal information devices is now conceived as a carefully orchestrated experience, rather than only a means to an end. I will discuss different aspects of this new interface paradigm using the examples of OSX, LG Chocolate, and iPhone.[...] [more]
Video Jack performed on 21/22 September in NAME (Nord Art Musique Electronique) festival, in Lille. The festival took place in La Condition Publique, in Roubaix (Lille area). The venue was an old, industrial looking building with 3 rooms with simultaneous performances, and a room for new media art installations. Video Jack crossed paths in festivals this year again with the Reactable crew (after London and São Paulo), and also with a number of performers/VJs that were at PixelAche (@C, Orchid Byte, Random Doctors, Tencu & Misu, Propaganda).[...] [more]
Abertura event took place on the 22nd July 2007 in Lisbon:
Abertura is a one day event which presents VJing and realtime visual performance by national and international artists.
From http://www.visual-agency.net/abertura/[...] [more]
In June 28th 2007, Video Jack participated in a tribute show to José Mário Branco, one of Portugal’s most important singer-songwriters. His work “FMI” was the focus of the tribute.[...] [more]