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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 , 0 comments

Howdy, jus wanted to highlight some interesting club visuals/audio-visual installations. Might be some ideas for future Second Square events in here...

Anti VJ is a visual label that does visuals experiments, installations, architecture design & live visuals. They seek to 'step away from the usual projections screens and formats, explore projections in 3D spaces and study visual perception'. Below are three examples but check out their blog, their stuff is amazing.

AntiVJ - Nuit Blanche Bruxelles - The content is a mix of 2D / 3D visuals, with mapping and architecture related projections. The second half of the video is especially unbelievable.



AntiVJ - 3Destruct from AntiVJ on Vimeo. Audiovisual installation at Biennale d'art contemporain in Louvain, Belgium. May 2007




AntiVJ - Live Painting: Shackleton from AntiVJ on Vimeo.



Electric Moons is a performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound

From their website: "A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.

Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.

The height of the helium balloons is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8x8 spatial matrix.

The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance."




Punto y Raya Festival 2007 - Excerpt from the dot·line dvj session by Mia Makela (SOLU) and Raúl Santos (Supercinexcene) at Punto y Raya Festival (Madrid, September 1st 2007).



Cubatron display at Burning Man 2007 - Pretty lights



Pablo Valbuena - The Augmented Sculpture Project - The ability to write the following is the reason that this piece is in galleries/museums rather then clubs...: " This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.

For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the physical layer, which controls the real space and shapes the volumetric base that serves as support for the next level. The second level is a virtual projected layer that allows controlling the transformation and sequentiality of space-time.

The blending of both levels gives the impression of physical geometry suitable of being transformed. The orverlapping produces a three-dimensional space augmented by a transformable layer suitable to be controlled, resulting in the capacity through the installation of altering multiple dimensions of space-time.

These ideas come to life in an abstract and geometric envelope, enhanced with synesthetic audio elements and establishing a dialogue with the observer." It looks real nice too.



Kubik is an open air club in Barcelona. Illuminated water tanks are stacked to create the structure, creating a synaesthetic relationship between light/architectural structure and the (dubious) tunes to create what must be a fairly mind blowing club experience.

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