Inspiration vs Theft

For once this article is neither about my personal work, nor related to AntiVJ, but it’s about a more general topic: creativity and the ownership of a piece, an original idea.
These views are my own, and are not necessarily shared by the other artists on the label.

Inspiration is key to creative work.
Watching, digesting, and reinterpreting other artists work is a common thing in our internet age. We have instant access to an almost infinite library of work by other artists, researchers, developers, and it has become one of the most efficient learning tools, allowing anyone online to understand the different steps or parts of a creative process.
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Mecaniques Discursives at MAPPING FESTIVAL 2012

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL at Mapping festival 2012

What an intense week.
The mapping festival is pretty much the best and the very unmissable event in Europe if you’re into visual art and interested in the post Vjing culture. They’ve been offering cutting edge content for the past 8 years, and the festival offers a mix of clubbing events, conferences and workshops, installations at the BAC (a contemporary Art gallery), architectural projections and outdoor events. This is also where I met most of my favorite artists, Legoman, 1024 architecture (formerly Exyzt), Quayola, UVA, Sigma6, and you’re likely to bump into many festival curators, who come to find the “next big thing” and upcoming visual artists.
The festival is run by the team behind Modul8 and Madmapper, so you can always expect to get major Read more →

Blog update

Almost 6 years since I started this blog.
It was back in March 2006, pretty much when I moved to the UK and started doing visuals (at the time in a very “classic VJing” manner), and this was  a kind of diary where I would describe my first VJ sets and relate VJing news in the Bristolian club scene.
We then started the Cuisine nights, a monthly audiovisual event we put on with  Read more →

Romain Tardy and Nosaj Thing

Last March, Romain Tardy was invited by Lunchmeat festival to spend 14 days at the meatfactory, an Art space in Prague,  to develop a project for a live performance with the Los Angeles-based abstract hip-hop artist Nosaj Thing.

Even if he had some ideas in mind: sketches, drawings, and inspiring visuals from Read more →

3Destruct in Russia with Onedotzero

Onedotzero is a London based organisation, and they love moving image. They curate screenings all around the world, release DVD and books about digital art, and they also have their own festival at BFI London, with screenings, talks, performances and art installations. As a massive fan of their DVD series (a selection of short films, ads, music videos and beautifully produced video content, a huge inspiration Read more →