The VJ Workshop offers participants a way to understand and get involved with their local landscape and community. The projects are developed within a social context which involves a mapping exercise of the local environment and the relationship to the community starting from the individual’s perspective within a group discussion.
For example, we can choose subjects such as Play, Exclusion, My Neighbourhood, My Community, Local History and Places of Interest as a way to develop a project.
The VJ Workshop focuses on the social methodology rather than on the technical side of VJing (although technical assistance will be offered when needed). As we use effective and easy to learn VJ techniques, the ‘technical’ time will be spent on bringing together the material which has been collected throughout the course and presenting it in a live event or as a basis for a documentary film.
VJing to the music of Khadijatou Doyneh.
Visuals and Live Performance with live band 'SloBurn' to the music of African singer song-writer Khadijatou Doyneh on her 'Sex, Lies and History' tour. Peepul Centre, Leicester, May 2010
The Hypervideo Player is a tool that demonstrates how text can be used as metadata to allow interaction with images and video and to allow computers to "understand" digital footage. By creating a "pool" of text that is associated with a film or an image we will be able to get a wider knowledge base of what those images consist of and what they are showing us. Further more, the interaction with the footage helps us understand how our mind and memory work by making associations with the visual images. The viewers are no longer passive and become users of the footage which allows them to recreate a film in a way that they vision. Read More
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