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PRESS - 23-08-07 - Daily of Seville - BLAS FERNÁNDEZ

Of the experiments of the pioneers of the videocreación to the role subordinated set against the DJ of electronic music, to arrive, finally, to the demand of an own role and with exceeded prominence. This could be, to large characteristics, the history of the videojockeys, the same one that the collective Sevillian one Zemos98, responsible for the annual audiovisual festival of the same name, will review inside the framework of the from Cordoba encounter Eutopía07 by means of the exposition Repeat Please: culture vj.
It located in the Main Funny Theater of the locality between the 15 and the 23 of the next month of September, the sample is articulated around seven sections that will repair so much in concrete works of symbolic figures -case of Analogue Assemblage, of the already dead south korean artist Nam June Paik, and of Timber, of the British Coldcut and Hexstatic- as in the origin and development of this creative discipline attending to Concrete geographical zones -each maps are drawn, conveniently documented by means of the projection of numerous works, of the art of the vjing so much in the national as world plan-.

Likewise, Repeat Please: vj culture will propose a series of parallel activities that covers since a contest of videojockeys to a workshop of initiation or even presentations of software destined to the mixture of real-time images.

“El term videojockey applies those creators that generate visual sessions mixing in direct videos with music, habitually in record stores and each time more in concerts and spectacles of all kinds of music”, explain since the collective one Zemos98, commissioners of the sample, in the catalogue of the exposition. Nevertheless, and although that be the most habitual definition, is not the unique possible one, a reality verified, for example, in the own editions of the festival Zemos98, where the figure of the VJ -whether this DJ Spooky mending in direct The Birth of to Nation of D.W. Griffith or Eclectic Method shooting videoclips with the same skill mixer that a DJ after its dishes- is superimposed with autonomy to the figure of extra.

Conscious of that emerging condition, Repeat Please: culture vj seeks foundation in the past and nothing arrives less than upon mentioning Nam June Paik (Seoul 1932-Miami 2006), member of the movement fluxus and indisputable pioneer of the videoarte and of the electronic handling of the image in movement. Another pillar of the sample, by means of a notable temporary leap, remains set in Timber (1997) of Coldcut -protagonists in the last edition of Zemos98 of a stunning audiovisual concert- and Hexstatic, a “poema audiovisual by the way of the deforestation and of the global destruction” converted already in a classic of the technique of the sampling applied to the video. In the other extreme, alien to the short one, hits and repeats and more close to the pictorial spirit, would remain situated the third column of the exposition, represented by Fountain Day (v.3), of the also veteran one Benton-C Bainbridge.

As soon as upon I reviewing geographical, Map VJ Spain proposes a traveled through that surpasses amply the likely poles of national creation, Madrid and Barcelona, to put in value to the videojockeys Andalusian -with pioneers as the of Granada Crumb and the Sevillian Visu-all and with appointments of renown like the Zemos98 himself- and to demand the space that deserve the Valencian, Asturian, and Spanish creators. In turn, Map VJ World will offer works of artists originating in the United Kingdom, Holland, France, Germany, Austria, Japan, United States, Russia, Turquia, New Zealand, Australia and diverse latin-american countries.

In the section Defines: VJ will be able to be contemplated a loop of projections -”del rowdy remix to the reflection of bosses and textures”, assures the catalogue- integrated among others by pieces of Ryoichi Kurokawa, Delacrew and Eclectic Method, while Interviews Zemos98 will offer an assembly with statements around the vjing and to other aspects of the digital culture in charge of artists that pasarón by the Sevillian festival -in concrete, Paul D Miller (DJ Spooky), Peter Greenaway, Eclectic Method and Coldcut-.

The sample Repeat Please: culture vj officially will be inaugurated with an audiovisual spectacle of the group Addictive TV.
“Repeat Please: culture vj”. From the 15 to September 23 in the Main Funny Theater of Cordoba. More information in www.culturavj.org and www.zemos98.org