Alastaire Allday reports…
It had been a long time since I’d been back to Newcastle, a town I’d grown up in – and left – nearly a decade ago. Back then I had no idea I would grow up to become an arsey arts journalist with a shock of jet black hair and a neat line […]
Addictive TV choose 4 of their favourite under-exposed VJs
Addictive TV, officially the world’s favourite VJs tell us a little about what they are up to at the moment, what they think of the scene, and the importance of the DJ mag VJ poll.
The London Art Fair from an outsiders perspective. We hear the cocktails were nice and the eye candy was even better, not to be philistines about it obviously.
In our unceasing quest to root out different cultures and scenes we use a specially trained bloodhound. As a puppy he was taught to make positive associations with exemplars of art and culture; pedigree chum served from a fauvist inspired bowl, squeaky toys in the shapes of Brancusi’s most influential sculptures. He now roams the collective consciousness searching for all that is new, exciting or evolving.
Hexstatic are Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson. We had a chat with Robin about what Hexstatic do, and where their visuals are headed. Both men have a long history in visuals and formed Hexstatic in 1997. They are signed to Ninja Tune, and have a close association with Coldcut. They have performed at many significant art galleries and alongside David Bryne, as well as producing two AV albums of their own work.
VJ Anyone a.k.a. Oli Sorenson performs with many top DJs and is currently touring with Sander Kleinenberg. He also runs the AV Social night in London, which pretty much does what it says on the tin. He has written essays for several books as well as writing for DJ Mag on the subject of VJing.
Geoff Gamlen is one of three people who make up Eclectic Method. Of our four interviewees Eclectic Method are perhaps most straight forward in terms of characterising themselves as pure entertainment in the form of music and live visuals. They have produced visuals for U2, Fatboy Slim, MTV and Faithless.
Nicolas Boritch is part of ‘visual label’ Anti VJ and club night Cuisine. Anti VJ orchestrates visual events and recently performed at Light Up Bristol, using the city’s council building to project their works onto. The Cuisine club night offers Bristol’s clubbers the opportunity to see Europe’s finest VJs. On both projects he works closely with French artist Crustea (Joanie Lemercier) - who performed at the Light Up Bristol event - pictured left. The thing is… tracked Nicolas down to get the promoter’s perspective on club visuals.
In the first part of a series on culture’s co-option of street art, Hayley Thatcher opens the debate with her take on the Banksy phenomenon. Cynical cash in or art for the masses? Let us know what you think, and look out for more debate coming soon.
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