(VJ-BOOK is a project by Timothy Jaeger, who together with Alex Draculescu presented the Respam:inbox performance at PixelACHE 2005 )
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5/9/05
VJ-BOOK.COM Launched
IT’S OFFICIAL. VJ-BOOK is one of the first books to be published on VJ culture,
and potentially the first to theorize VJing in a way that breaks down the
practice and reception of live visuals in a systematic, structured way.
VJ-BOOK: Jockeying and Post-Cinema (tentative title) begins its inquiry where
Godard and Peter Greenaway leave theirs in proclaiming that ‘cinema is dead’.
The cinematic language is a rich, engrossing one that remains unexplored in
traditional Hollywood-style narratives. Contemporary VJs (video-jockeys) are
the first group in the 21st century to seriously engage and question the
potentials and limitations of the cinematic medium in a wide variety of formats
and contexts.
The central claim in VJ-BOOK is that ‘jockeying’ is a behavior, role, and
activity that facilitates a radically new kind of post-cinematic experience.
This experience can only be articulated in relation to traditional film syntax.
In doing some, the similarities and differences between this new type of cinema
and the older one flesh out new possibilities for producers of the moving
image, the audience, and the spaces in which cinema can not only be seen, but happen as events.
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