Digital Art - VJ Basics

Digital Art - Visuals for live performance

From analogue to digital, learn the basics of crafting and mixing visuals for live performance. VJing is a style of responsive visual storytelling which feels immersive, immediate and impactful. In this workshop we will experiment with custom software and hardware for video manipulation. We will explore captivating ways to enhance stage productions, music festivals, architectural structures and illuminate custom sculptural objects. Perfect for people who would like to expand their practice who are using projection art. A great way to explore concepts using new techniques, meet people and share ideas.

We will deep dive into programs such as VDMX5 and MadMapper to bring poetic sculptural installations to life and stitch stories together across custom surfaces. Play, mix and map together in a fun, inclusive and imaginative space. Join as an individual or duo. Participants will be partnered during the workshop.

What to bring

- MAC Laptop (program used only operates on a MAC) 

- Enough memory space for editing

- 10 images or clips

- Own analogue hardware, cameras and laptops that can run graphics-intensive and MAC-based software. 

The workshop cost includes light catering. Dietary needs may not be accommodated so please bring additional snacks. Everyone is welcome with no prior knowledge necessary. This workshop is for people over 18 years old. Explore concepts using new techniques, meet people and share ideas.

If cost is a barrier, please make contact chantal.wynter@wyndham.vic.gov.au

This workshop is for people over 18 years old.

About Carla Zimbler 
Carla Zimbler bends light across architecture and soaks sculptural forms in vivid textures as a live performative experience, and meditation on existence. Carla seeks to build conduits and connective passageways between physical x spiritual boundaries through hypnotic colour and transformative symbolism. As a gateway to the otherworldly and the afterlife, Carla's multimodal installations examine ephemerality, altered states of being and extrasensory perception. Audiences are drawn into immersive, luminous spaces where non-human forms endlessly expand, exhale and dissolve. The intimate, experiential world-building elements of her practice ebb and flow between the familiar and uncanny, navigating anthropomorphic phenomena in a lucid dream-like state. Carla’s visual work and installation practice has been featured at Sydney Opera House, National Gallery of Australia, Arts House, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIVID Sydney, ACMI, Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival, Distortion, Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Sydney Biennale, Now or Never Festival, MPavilion and Phoenix Central Park.

www.carlazimbler.net

instagram: @carlazimbler

Acknowledgment of Traditional Custodians

Wyndham City Council recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first Peoples of Australia. We acknowledge the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples as Traditional Owners of the lands on which Wyndham City operates. The Wadawurrung and Bunurong Peoples have and always will belong to the Werribee Yalook (river), creeks, stars, hills and red clay of this Country. We pay respect to their Ancestors and Elders who always have, and always will, care for Country and community today and for future generations.

Image 1: Photo by Marcela Laskoski

Image 2: Courtesy of artist