Big M VJ workshop FreeJ
From 12-08-2004 until 12-09-2004
Media art tour through Holland
The BIG M invites the audience to come along on a visual adventure. It presents media art in all its facets, from music video and silent poetry to the experimental and anarchistic use of digital techniques. It is art which at first sight merges seamlessly into contemporary visual culture, but still does not give in without resistance. There's more then video-art in the BIG M, the audience is also invited to get busy with video themselves. At each location there will be held a VJ workshop. The creation of live video in clubs originated from the underground scene, but has spread widely. Especially young makers are involved in VJ culture.
The workshop is a fun and practical introduction to the VJ phenomenon. The workshop is given by Jaromil, the creator of the open source VJ software FreeJ. The workshop takes 2 hours and you'll go home with a CD with all software you'll need to VJ, and the knowledge you need to use this software. More information: marloes@nimk.nl
FreeJ
FreeJ is a digital instrument for video livesets, featuring realtime rendering of multilayered video and chained effect filtering directly on the screen. FreeJ deals with every video source as a layer, making then possible to dynamically apply on each a chain of filters, loadable as effect plugins and easily customizable. Layers are implemented to mix together live inputs (video4linux devices), DIVX/AVI files (with avifile library), PNG images and TEXT files word by word. Other layers are being implemented.FreeJ is being developed in the hope to provide the GNU community with a free, modular and highly customizable application to perform video livesets; a free and open framework that lets anybody implement his own filters concentrating simply on the dsp algorithm developed and furthermore to combine them over any supported layer. In collaboration with the Netherlands Media Institute a series of FreeJ workshops will be given throughout Holland, from August till December 2004.
http://freej.org/
Dyne:bolic
Dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more.
You don't need to install anything, you don't even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you'll get back true love ;^)
Dyne:bolic has been used and will be used even more in the future during workshops from the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The educational use has led to a further evolution of dyne:bolic into an educational tool, that provides long anticipated easy set-up and a complete collection of software dedicated to multi-media purposes.
http://dynebolic.org/
