Laura Ramirez (OptikaVJ) / AV-Invader Mapping

Laura is a visual arts lover dedicated to direct and produce live visuals projects and experimental pieces for commercial brands, art exhibitions and worldwide academic presentations. She produces herself and runs her own laboratory and audiovisual label "Optikal Ink Lab", an independent project dedicated to create AV works and aimed to integrate digital arts, video projections, video mapping and real-time narratives.

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Robert Fischer (Hexler) / TouchOSC & TouchViz

Dr. Mo talks with Robert about his Apps: TouchOSC Modular OSC and MIDI control surface for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad Sends and receives Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol and supports both CoreMIDI and the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer interfaces for sending and receiving MIDI messages. TouchViZ Professional, portable VJ system for iPad 2 At home or in the club, professionally or just for fun, you can now create impressive visuals straight from your iPad.

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Andreas Karaoulanis & Katerina Liana / "Lava" Live Dance Performance

Andreas Karaoulanis comes from a Computer Science and Animation background. His current work deals with interactive media design and animation. He has present his work in Museum Of London, Moscow, Paris and in various Galleries and spaces around Europe. One of his latest projects is "bestbefore", an online interactive showcase blog. Together with Katerina Liana presented at LPM 2012 their Live Performance called Lava where Dance meets Visuals.

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Valerie & David ( Meso ) / VVVV and IRIS VJ tool

vvvv is a hybrid graphical/textual programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously. IRIS Interactive Realtime Image Synthesizer is a powerful software platform for realtime image synthesis, video compositing and spatial media design. MESO is working on the border line between technology and design — offering an integrated view on digital media system design.

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Toby Harris (*spark) & Light Surgeons / Origin, present and future of Live Cinema

The Light Surgeons is a collective of pioneering multimedia artists founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen. It now functions as an media arts production company which develops new work in a diverse range of mediums; print, photography, motion graphics, digital film production, exhibitions, installations and ground breaking live audio visual performances. Toby harris A.K.A *spark is a digital media maverick, he crosses the disciplines of artist, designer and engineer in the pursuit of anything that uses media to make people interact or think in unexpected ways.

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