Special thanks to our huruguayan friends -VJ Chindogu & Alfafa- who made an amazing drawing audio visual mapping in the tresor, great work, spirit and vibs!!!
a nice video of it soon!!!
We would like to apologize for the worst case scenario we have created on the festival’s saturday night. What was planned to be a roaring closing party together with DMY, with 17 VJs and a 21 screen-setup, ended up as a visual disaster and an insult for all VJs we had booked into that venue for the night. Due to a five hours delay in our setup-schedule, the majority of our needed gear for the night missing, 30min left to set up before doors opening, dead mobile phone batteries of the head coordinator and a hungover, tired and lost crew we ended up with the dodgiest VJ-setup ever – that rather reminded of an open-air festival-middle-of-the-forest-just-for-fun projection - but not a professional festival setup to represent VJ culture, show off to the DMY folks and offer top notch VJ artists an amazing playground.
(photo by Startsladd)
We have already discussed this cock-up internally and we all know the reasons why it went wrong. We learned a lesson and such thing will not happen again. Advice to other festival organising colleagues out there: Having the biggest festival allnigher party until 9 in the morning and THEN trying to manage THREE venues on one day with a tight setup-change schedule and not enough helping hands –> BAD IDEA!
It’s not only frustrating for the organising team, confusing for the tired setup crew, an insult to the venue organiser, but mainly a slap in the face for the people we made this festival for: the artists.
Our honest apologies go out to Startsladd (who already gave us feedback), AlexEtJeremy, Emiko, Lumabeamerz, Valentina Besegher, all the VisualBerlin VJs who couldn’t play, and the DMY and Picknick crew. Thanks to the amazing guys of interzone42 who tried to save the venue and eventually managed to set up a few more projectors.
We’ll do better next time. promise.
For those who couldnt make it to Berlin, or who missed this inspiring talk.. Here it is; Toby *spark giving us way more than just a presentation of his DVI mixer.
Video of the spontaneous mappings of E-Gruppe and interzone42 at the VisualBerlinFestival2010@Tresor 11.06 filmed and published by EleKTro mOOn Vision on Vimeo.
Thanks to our friend Martin aka Synsinplus for the sweet live recording of his set against the mighty Saetchmo…
pictures by georgealvolante
licht an!
we want to thank you all very much for participating in visualberlinFestival 2010!
thanks for the great workshops and showcases of your artwork and for the installations and spontaneous mappings that made this festival what it was: a successful event from and for the worldwide visualist community!
we would also like to thank everyone who dropped by out of interest in the artform and to meet artists. we apologize for the temporary chaos in between, the many delays and technical issues. the visualberlinFestival was realised voluntarily by a handful of enthusiastic artists from the local VC VisualBerlin e.V. video-arts association without any external funding or sponsors, but out of passion for audiovisual arts and interest in meeting new and inspiring people and collectives for future exchange and potential collaboration. we love what we do and we love you and your work!
in the next weeks we will publish what our great team of documentation-volunteers caught on photo and video during the three days, including interviews with many of the attending artists – something to give back to you! if you made photos or videos of the event, please let us know how we can access your material so we can collect and publish everything in one place. if you have a flickr photostream, feel free to add your photos to our dedicated flickr group.
we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we hope to see you again at the next edition of visualberlinFestival in the future!
your AVIT Berlin festival crew
pics by DonoughO’Brien
