Video Mapping Workshop (FLxER & Medrar)

Video Mapping Workshop

FLxER & Medrar

Dates: 4, 5 and 6 December 2022

Timings: 6pm to 9pm

Location: Medrar for Contemporary Art

Address:  10 Gamal Al Din Abou Al Mahasen, 8th floor, Garden City – Cairo

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 27

In the framework of our ongoing collaboration with Flyer and VAF for the Fantomas Lab, we invite you to apply to our upcoming Mapping Workshop which will take place in parallel to the Fantomas exhibition. The workshop will be led by the artist duo FLxER, which is made up of Gianluca Del Gobbo and Elisa Antonacci.

It will consist of a theory and practice workshop on the technology and software used for Video Mapping performance. Video content adaptation to irregular and non-flat surfaces and architecture with different softwares, using one or more projectors managed from the same computer. A guide to static and animated content creation according to each participant’s competence.

Video Mapping is a video projection technique that virtually transforms any surface on a screen. It’s a closed territory in which art, architecture and technology converge at new expressive forms

that temporarily changes our spaces and objects’ classical perception.

Video Mapping is a technique that transforms video projection into a single performance, exploiting surfaces’ features and space that host its particularities. Projection’s various techniques will be put into practice (on urban surfaces, on objects, into theatres,

during events, etc.) using MadMapper, the main software for Windows and Mac, with insights on Millumin and Resolume; particular focus will be dedicated to guiding content creation. You will learn to manage video elements for theatrical performance, stage design, video installation and VJ-ing, connecting space to music and video.

Requirements:

• Participants have to bring their own laptops with installed Resolume Arena (https://resolume.com/download/), no previous knowledge is required.

• Experience with any photos and vector graphic editor (such as Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator), 3D and animation software is a plus.

To apply please fill the form below:

Deadline is ٍSunday November 27.

Workshop Fee: 500 EGP

About the Instructors:

–  Gianluca Del Gobbo: 

Considered a guru of the new media and the digital arts world as well as a pioneer in the Audio Visual Performing Arts, he was born in Rome in 1970. Very interested in any kind of avant-garde, costume, music, art and experimentation, it is updated on all sorts of innovations in art, technology and communication. With FLxER he became a coder/hacker extending his knowledge on many other languages, softwares, and platforms related to the web, data and new media. He founded: LPM: Live Performers Meeting (2004 – today) Fotonica Festival (2017 – today) Live Cinema Festival (2014 – today) AVnode (2011 -2018) Vj television the first 24-hour live video broadcast channel (2009 – today) FLxER: Live visuals community & software (2001 – today) Shockart: web art project (1999 – today) WAM: Web Art Museum (2003 – today). 

– ELISA ANTONACCI // LIZ

Graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome in Graphics and Multimedia Design, fascinated by the world of visuals in the broadest sense of the word, Elisa works in areas where the eclecticism of the image reveals all of its power. She is involved with a studio that produces international festivals focused on live video performances, visuals and VJs. Her pretentious ear led her to the development of AMEN, a project focused on musical aesthetics.

She combined her projects with a business experience in skuola.net, working on designing and producing web and paper communication materials. The passion for the visual is conveyed very young with the creation of improvearts.net, a cultural association born from a group of young people to spread new artistic forms. In her baggage, there is no shortage of freelance works such as logos, flyers, banners to be designed and developed for events and more. Attracted by the versatility of the image and the thousand applications that it can find in digital, Elisa – or as a Visual Artist, Liz – approaches the FLxER Team, a collective that works in the way of performing art. It is in this environment that she cultivates her passion for digital innovations.

This alliance was implemented in the framework of the All-Around Culture programme by L’art Rue & MitOst and co-funded by the European Union in Egypt and EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture in Egypt.

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