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Jasper
Cook and Kat Black are VJzoo. We're "film nerd" VJ's
and video artists who do artsy-style
VJing.
If
you live in Perth, Western Australia, why not come
along to one of our events and
say hi - we're the ones staring intently at laptop
screens, pretty easy to find! We're the busiest VJs
in Perth and do the widest range of events, so there's
probably something coming up that's your style.
If
you're in Perth and interested in learning to VJ, an
experienced VJ looking to network & jam with others,
or even just interested in seeing what we do and how
we do it, come along to Plug
n Play Perth.
We
love to develop specific content for corporate events
- such as that done for WABAPA and the
West Coast Eagles.
What
we love most is using archival film - especially
dance film - in a new context - eg at nightclubs, gala
events and openings. We respond to the music
in real-time, selecting clips to suit the track, changing
the tempo and scratching the video the way a DJ does
with audio.
We
own over 5000 movies on VHS and DVD, and have over
30,000 loops on our VJ drives. Like a professional
DJ, we buy everything we use if it's commercially available.
Most of the content we use is from the US, and our
live performances would constitute Fair Use under American
law. Unfortunately, Australia does not have Fair Use
laws and very little Australian "public domain" archival
content is available - so we use hardly any Australian
content (apart from stuff we shoot ourselves).
"VJing
is a type of performance that combines the visual
possibilities of filmmaking with the improvisational
pleasures of jazz"...from The
VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for
Live Visuals Performance by Paul Spinrad, Jon
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