Supermafia


I am always fascinated and concerned about portability. Maybe it was because of the impression that nomadic people made on me as a child? I remember the joy of my first laptop. “Now I can do what I love anywhere I want!” It was also one of the things that made VJing much more accessible in the sense that one did not need to lug around a mixer and two VHS decks. Even projectors have become more portable these days. Now with mapping being all the rage, you may ask yourself “how am I going to break away from the screen without breaking my back carrying a stage set around?

Enter Supermafia with a series of small, tripod mounted screens. I can see how you could change the arrangement every time, and thanks to MadMapper they can do the mapping setup in next to no time.


Supermafia had already established a reputation for guerilla style disco prior to the existence of MadMapper, as demonstrated in the above video from this years edition of the Mapping Festival. An inflatable dome setup in a matter of minutes, complete with music, lighting and visuals. Next time it could be fun to include an inflatable audience as well?

posted by modul8.us @ 5 July, 2011 2 comments »

Volvo mapping projection

A story from Andreas Apelqvist of Startsladd from Sweden spend their non-party hours at Filmpoint. Recently they were able to bring Modul8 into their production work with help from Mikael Werner (aka The Midi Thief). Andreas writes:

Volvo released their latest concept. This is big for Volvo since it’s the first time in years they have released a pure design concept. We were asked to do something for social media to be released as a teaser for before and after the launch. We decided to map the car. The time was critical. The construction of the car was finished the same day as we were supposed to do the recording, so we only had 3D renderings to work with when creating the first masks. With the help of Mikael we were ready in time.

Oddly enough I am in Stockholm for the next few days spending a little time on a side project before things really heat up.

posted by modul8.us @ 4 May, 2011 0 comments »

Niño Viejo collective uses MadMapper at Lunchmeat

Installation of NiñoViejo at Lunchmeat FestivalInstallation of NiñoViejo at Lunchmeat Festival
Photos: Bego M. Santiago

An appropriate follow up to yesterdays post: The artist Bego M. Santiago is a vital part of the Niño Viejo is a collective. What inspires me about this Spain based collective is that they merge the usual VJing and commercial work with socially conscious art projects.

I was delighted to know that the Lunchmeat Festival in Prague invited Niño Viejo to do a special installation. I had performed at the first edition of Lunchmeat last year. It had produced one of the most memorable audio visual installation type performances I have ever seen.

NiñoViejo at Lunchmeat
Photo: Boris Edelstein

While we are very strict about who is able to use the MadMapper prior to its release an exception was made and we are very happy with the results.

Sergi Palau of Niño Viejo writes:

The Lunchmeat Festival from Prague invited NiñoViejo this ddition for a 2 weeks residency to make a project for the festival.

Our project consisted of 16 panel, 3 meters tall and 1 meter wide with separations separated in-between them, so that they worked like independent screens and completely covered the back of the stage.

The images that we projected were on the human body in movement and mapping the panels we could use them like a complete screen or 16 independent ones that allowed us to deconstruct and then construct these bodies in movement.

NiñoViejo at Lunchmeat
Photo: Boris Edelstein

With 3 projectors and a matrox triplehead we could cover the 16 panels, and with MadMapper we could map all these panels in many different ways with the result that with the same image we have several different looks: sometimes seeing the complete and normal picture acros the 16 panels, another times deconstructing the picture, fragmenting and repeating, in mirror, like a kaleidoscope, a videomosaic, etc.

Madmapper turned out to be a tool of incredible facility and versatility of handling and configuration, and, simultaneously, of a superb performance, since you could infinitely repeat the mapped quads without affecting the performance of the videos even working with high resolutions.

As you all know by now, the official release is set for May 26th at this years edition of the Mapping Festival. We are looking forward to this date just as much as you.

posted by modul8.us @ 28 April, 2011 0 comments »

Mapping Festival 2011 (7th edition)

Mapping Festival 2011

This years edition is upon us. Once again, 10 days of video projection art in its multitude of flavors of performance, installations, workshops, presentations and clubbing all unfolding within the birthplace of Modul8, Geneva, Switzerland.

The photo in the above graphic was created by Modul8 team member and co-founder Boris Edelstein. And yes! MadMapper was used, but in a way one would least expect. As always, the simple solution is best! Get the model to fool around with the software for a bit, tighten up things
and voila! There really is nothing more powerfully compelling to look at then the human form, and even more so when adding projections to it.

As always, the focus is on the art of projection. So why not try to make that part of everything including the promotional material?

And here my brief copy ends and the Mapping Team copy begins.

<< Begin >>

This year the festival will focus on the technical aspects of video mapping, i.e. video-projection on surfaces that is one of the fastest growing art mediums in the world. Highlights include:

- Video projection on bodies by our 2011 visual.
- The official release of MadMapper, a new video mapping software created by GarageCUBE (Modul8) and 1024_architecture. The release will be accompanied by an exclusive 3 day workshop.
- A mapping workshop presented by Get Festival from Porto, Portugal.

To quell your hightened anticipation check out the listing of our lineup. If you thought you missed out last year, then don’t make the same mistake again! You will have more information soon, be patient!

Exhibition:
Boris Petrovsky / Legoman, Thomas Vaquié & Mandril / The Montesinos Foundation & Petter Viaselfebb / City Media Project (HEAD) / Manuel Chantre / FAIL / Kit Webster / Camille Scherrer

A/V Performances:
Manuel Chantre / Udosson:// mredit / Greie Gut Fraktion / People Like Us / Ioann Maria & Wojtek Wcislik / Fernando Velàzquez & Francisco Lapetina / Chloé Mazlo & Son Of A Pitch / ExLex / AV:IN / Legoman & Stray Dogs / Zan Lyons / Pascal Greco & Goodbye Ivan / Krash On Earth / Murat Ombombe / 35Plis / Transforma & Yro / Recoil Performance Group / Iduun / Cagoule / The Erasers / Supermafia / VJ Fader / Antistatic Family

Workshops / Lecture:
MadMapping / Body Double-HEAD / M’S &M – Modeling, Manufacturing & Mapping (Get Set Festival, Portugal) / Vimeo / Modul8 / AV:in

Visual clubbing:
Kate Moross / Cumulus / VJ Fader / Union by Motion / David Wilson / Drawvolution / Neon Golden / Dub Video Connection / Neal Coghlan / Pixel Legion / Video Olympic / Indefinite VJ / VJ Optika / VJ Spetto & VJ Zaz / Skylab / Emilie Bourquin / Lupin / Steaknet

Audio clubbing:
Simian Mobile Disco / D.I.M / Electric Rescue / Fukkk Offf / D1 – All in feat. Jenna G / Da Krew / DJ Die / Water Lilly (live) / Junction SM (Sonja Moonear & Dandy Jack) / Oneman / The Hiiters (Live AV) / Unknown to the Unknown / MC Crazy D / Dachshund / Dirty Mad Sound / Born Björg / Franky Digital / Ina D / Nemelka / Opuswerk / Shadow Dancer

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There you have it. Plenty of reasons to make a trip to Geneva.

posted by modul8.us @ 13 April, 2011 1 comment »

3D Bridge / Report #2

For the Nuit Blanche 2010 festival, 1024 Architecture designed a 20 tons scaffolding structure built on top of the Saint Louis Bridge, downtown Paris. Part of this project was included in the initial prototype that was used for developing the MadMapper. The show consisted of a 12 minute looping audio reactive visual set.

posted by modul8.us @ 19 March, 2011 0 comments »

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