D-FUSE: A VJ Zapped My Retinas!

死弱弱

<div id="greybox"><div class="toppic"></div><p><img class="main" alt="D-FUSE: Last Night A VJ Zapped My Retinas" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/title/dfuse.jpg"/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">D-Fuse in visually stunning action – now they printed a selection of VJs from all over the world.</div><p><strong>These days VJs getting more and more omnipresent: Not only at live shows, club nights and parties, but moreover at corporate events, too. That’s one of the reasons scene leading man Mike Faulkner from the London-based visual wizards <a href="http://www.dfuse.com/"><font color="#65c3d4">D-FUSE</font></a> edited the volume <a href="http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/books/bookdetails.php"><font color="#65c3d4">VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture</font></a>. Published by <a href="http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/"><font color="#65c3d4">Laurence King Publishing</font></a> this book introduces 128 VJs from all around the world, sticks its nose into software &amp; hardware, and doesn’t forget about the history either. PingMag had a little chat with Mike about his book, the VJ scene, and who he thinks is the world’s greatest VJ at the moment.</strong></p><p>Written by Chiemi</p><p><strong>Mike, could you tell me first a bit about <a href="http://www.dfuse.com/"><font color="#65c3d4">D-FUSE</font></a>, please?</strong></p><p>The D-Fuse core consists of three people: Mike Faulkner as Creative Director, Keri Elmsly as Producer and Matthais Kispert as the Audio Director, together with a group of really talented contributors that both do VJing and editing. We are some London-based artists that explore a range of creative media with cutting edge technology. Some people might know us from our visuals for <a href="http://www.beck.com/"><font color="#65c3d4">Beck</font></a>’s “Guero” DVD and his accompanying tour, a small global installation and our China-UK project <em>Undercurrent</em>.</p><p><img class="main" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse03.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">From Beck’s “Guero” tour. Visuals by D-Fuse.</div><p>D-Fuse is fluid, moving between the worlds of Design, VJing, and Fine Art thus generating collaborative works. We believe that the concept for a project ought to grow organically with the artists working as a collective. We take pride in our professionalism although there are no hard and fast rules. </p><p><strong>You not only edited the entire <a href="http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/books/bookdetails.php"><font color="#65c3d4">VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture</font></a> book, but it was also originally your idea to make it in the first place, as I heard. What was your motivation?</strong></p><div class="imageleft"><img src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse01.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; <br/><small>The cover of “VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture” published by Laurence King Publishing. It includes a special 130 min. DVD, Hexstatic, Cold Cut, UVA, and many more.</small></div><p>We felt there was a need to educate the masses. VJing is quite an underground thing and there was no documentation about it until recently. Producing a book might give the scene some academical support and we hope that people will see in VJing something more than just club visuals.</p><p><strong>The title includes not only “VJing” but also “audio visual art”. I guess there are some people who are confused with these two words. Can you explain the difference?</strong>
                </p><p>Generally VJing as a term refers to video, whilst Audio Visual means audio and video. But there are lots of VJs who do also audio.</p><p><strong>The content of this book is very wide stretched. It introduces the roots of VJing, software &amp; hardware, and DVDs related to VJs. Then it features a lot of VJs from all over the world. You must have spent a very long time to finish it…</strong></p><p>We started with the original concept four years ago, then a small book about European VJs being released in Japan only. The deal fell through and we then discussed doing the book with IDN. By this time the book had expanded to global VJs and was going to include over one hundred VJs. But it wasn’t until <a href="http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/"><font color="#65c3d4">Laurence King Publishing</font></a> gave us the publishing deal. Moreover we had to delay the work on the book as we were busy with our Beck Tour and a project in China. However, we feel it was worth spending the time with developing the book – as the scope of the involved artists’ output grew immensely from the time the idea germinated.</p><p><strong>How did you gather all these VJs?</strong></p><p>We had a list of VJs we felt that were important and we recommended VJs from established artists and curators in different countries. For example the Belgian festival <a href="http://cimatics.com/cimatics/"><font color="#65c3d4">Cimatics</font></a> helped us regarding Europe and we had people submitting through word by mouth. The final selection was based on a work spectrum and on the artists that delivered their work complete and on time. We could have easily had more than 500 VJs but the final count was 128. A few important ones are still missing but this book is not about listing VJs after all. It is really meant to be a snapshot of the culture but also a way of documenting the development of the art form beginning with its roots.</p><p><img class="main" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse04.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">Japanese section: After the foreword by Tokyo-based British VJ Ben Sheppee sixteen VJs, including Delaware, Glamoove, Optical Sisters, and Samurai are being introduced.</div><p><img class="main" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse05.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">Austria section: Alex Stockburger also works with D-Fuse and introduced Austrian VJs Timo Novotny/Vidok and Dextro.</div><p><img class="main" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse06.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">It also includes VJs from Canada (above), Argentine, Singapore, Venezuela, Finland, and many more.</div><p><strong>Which country has an interesting VJ scene right now?</strong></p><p>Brazil and Latin America are definitely the ones. There has been a real change in this part of the world regarding politics and art and VJing seems to produce some interesting results there.</p><p><strong>Who is the best VJ at the moment? Can you give us three or four names?</strong></p><p>Mmm…It’s difficult to list only three or four but I like <a href="http://www.thelightsurgeons.co.uk/"><font color="#65c3d4">The Light Surgeons</font></a> from the UK, <a href="http://www.actop.net/"><font color="#65c3d4">Actop</font></a> from Spain and <a href="http://www.dienststelle.de/"><font color="#65c3d4">Dienststelle</font></a> from Germany. I heard <a href="http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/"><font color="#65c3d4">Ryoichi Kurokawa</font></a> from Japan is good but I haven’t seen him live yet.</p><div class="imageleft"><img src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse12.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; <br/><small>The Light Surgeons from UK</small></div><div class="imageright"><img src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse11.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; <br/><small>Actop from Spain</small></div><div class="afterpic"></div><div class="imageleft"><img src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse10.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; <br/><small>Dienststelle from Germany</small></div><div class="imageright"><img src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse02.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; <br/><small>Ryoichi Kurokawa from Japan</small></div><div class="afterpic"></div><p><strong>Do you notice any differences between the UK/London VJ scene and the scene in other countries after editing this book?</strong></p><p>The UK and London scene is interesting as it’s one of the most populated. But there is a real lack of events and suitable venues to perform in. However it is very well developed in the sense that art institutions such as <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/"><font color="#65c3d4">Tate modern</font></a>, <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/"><font color="#65c3d4">V&amp;A</font></a> and <a href="http://www.ica-uk.org.uk/"><font color="#65c3d4">ICA</font></a> all now host live audiovisual events, plus there is a large amount of arts and new media festivals that feature live performance and VJing in their programme. So in many senses the UK is a very strong market.</p><p><img class="main" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse07.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">UK section: UK is probably the most competitive place for VJs. The lucky people being introduced here are Cold Cut, Addictive TV, VJ Anyone, Exceeda etc.</div><p><strong>On the cover of this book it says “the term of VJ was first used at the end of the 1970s in the New York club Peppermint Lounge”. Looking back the twenty years of VJ history, how has the VJ scene changed?</strong></p><p>It’s becoming more accepted, most people now know a VJ is not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJs"><font color="#65c3d4">a presenter on MTV</font></a>.</p><p><img class="main" src="http://www.pingmag.jp/images/article/dfuse08.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><div class="picturecaptionlong">American section: Sixteen VJs including DJ Spooky, TV sheriff, and Benton-c are introduced here.</div><p><strong>What part of VJing attracts you and many other people so much?</strong></p><p>Whether it is a highly conceptual performance or a freeform club event, you can express your ideas and work. You are a curator and controller of the projected images and you can interact with the spatial aspects of a venue plus with your audience during the performance.</p><p><strong>Any advice for people who want to become a VJ?</strong></p><p>Be prepared to work hard and stay positive. Plus you need to be good at promotion and networking.</p><p><strong>One last message for our PingMag readers?</strong></p><p>The book has taken a lot of time and energy to produce but we are proud of the work and of being able to support and promote so many global artists. Now we are building a website to accompany the book that should be ready by next January. We are also developing a world tour that uses the book as platform for debate and live performances. So, please help support the scene with us!</p><p><strong>Mike, thank you so much for your story! And we are definitely coming over to see your performance!</strong></p><a name="comments"></a><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><h3 id="comments"><a href="http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/12/08/vertical-garden-the-art-of-organic-architecture/"><small><br/></small></a></h3></div>

死弱弱

<p>相关：</p><p><strong>D - F U S E</strong> ：<a href="http://www.dfuse.com/">http://www.dfuse.com/</a></p><p><strong>Laurence King Publishing：</strong><a href="http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/">http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/</a></p><p></p>