May 27th & 28th, 2011: AV:LAB @ Bâtiment d’art contemporain – Mapping Festival 2011

AV:lab is an offline educational course on new media and audiovisual arts initiated by Force Media Swiss AG, a leading Russian audiovisual arts group and creative community, also responsible for projects such as Cyberbrothers and Russian Visual Artists (RVA).

Originating from its widely successful online course AV:in which gained the attention of over 4000 users in under 6 months, AV:lab was first seen at Yota Space festival in St Petersburg. December 2010 where a host of leading international groups such as Coldcut, Resolume, Arkaos, and Green Hippo gave classes and presentations on subjects relating to audiovisual art and culture. AV:lab is coming to Europe for the first time at Mapping and has several locations planned for 2011 in an effort to spread its popular course structure and lecture program with a variety of information and presentations on AV Art History, Content Creation, Software, Hardware, Protips and Career Outcomes.

The unique program for Mapping includes presentations and talks with visual entities UVA, onedotzero and lightrhythm visuals, explaining their success stories and how it has been possible to develop an industry and careers around visual arts. This is followed up with themed talks by, RVA, Shantell Martin, Olga Mink and Benge who are talking on their respective subjects of video mapping for theatre, live illustration, curating visual arts and the history of synthesizers.

Presenting by:
onedotzero – the creative industry
benge – 20 systems
shantell martin – digital graffiti
Russian Visual Artists – mapping for theatre
Mr Vux – VVVV techniques
Antonio Guesa – Russian VJ Aesthetics
olga mink – Atttudes towards Curating
UVA – UVA

audiovisualacademy.com/​avin/​en/​
cyberbrothers.tv/​
lightrhythmvisuals.com/​