First Avenue, Black, Vitamin Water, Modul8, and Resolume, and Livid Instruments presents:
Twin Cities EJ Festival: August 27 2011
10pm-2am at:
First Avenue Record Room 701 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403
Celebrating the 10th Year anniversary of the EJ Midi Turntable, with VJ's DJ's and EJ's performing Video – Music – New Media - Mapping – Software developers – iPad -Hardware – Mods – iPhone media apps, Circuit MODS, 3D graphics, video and projection, 2D computer raster graphics, computer simulations, VHS/DVD Mixes, keyframing, high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development graphics, inverse kinematics, Computer vision, Image processing, 2D computer vector graphics, motion capture, Commodore, Amiga, Atari demoscene, glitch video, Anaglyph image processing, Modeling objects or environments, Laser mapping, artificial vision systems, augmented reality, Mobile Video performances and more! Meet the artists, software and hardware developers bringing you the latest in music and video performance technology. The Twin Cities EJ Festival celebrates video culture, technology, and innovation.
Twin Cities EJ Festival Artists:
Justin Kent (EJ Midi Turntable Inventor) (VIDEO) - Miami, FL. Remix Magazine says that Justin Kent is “blasting the market into 2099″ and the Discovery Channel calls him “the future of dance music.” International performer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Justin Kent was born in Orlando, Florida, and was brought up on a hyperactive diet of MTV and the Internet. Relocated to Boston for a whirlwind ride through the dot-com boom, he graduated from MIT then spent an action-packed stint hacking code at the original Napster. As a DJ pushing the limits of his craft, he started to bring abstract video into his sets. One day it occurred to him, “What if you could scratch TV?” Within a few months, he had invented the world’s first MIDI Turntable, an optical system for DJing video. Billing himself as an “Experience Jockey,” he’s since performed across the US and around the globe with his signature EJ Turntable – spinning a web of music video countdown vs. dancefloor underground. Being struck by lightning on his 25th birthday catalyzed his drive to lead the evolution of music into the 21st century. The Blue Man Group's video for Terminator 3 used the EJ Midi Turntable, among countless VJ's throughout the world.
000000000001 Video Remix of Emergency Broadcast Network Naughty Wood (MUSIC) Aaron Bliss (MUSIC) and EJ Nate (EJ Midi Turntable developer, VIDEO mapping on MatLab) Nancy Cheng (MUSIC) and TimeSquid (VIDEO) Jobot (MUSIC) and VisionQuest (VIDEO) Emmanuel and Tonio (First Avenue VJ's) Mathstatic (Mapping installation) Mach Fox (Video Installation) TEAM EJ SETS until 2am Sound engineering by Amy Z
Sponsors: First Avenue http://first-avenue.com/ Vitamin Water http://www.vitaminwater.com/ Black/Particle People http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1162224544 Modul8 http://www.modul8.ch/ Resolume www.resolume.com Livid Instruments http://lividinstruments.com/ Genius of Fun http://www.djesp.com/ 000000000001 http://first-avenue.com/performer/000000000001
