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So please, share the most important lessons learned there, from a professional point of view. A lot of VJs among our readers only dream to go to Burningman. Breathtaking! But I’m still curious about organizational moments. Lumen: What about Burningman? I saw that video where you walk through the crowd with projectors in your hands, creating trippy visuals on random surfaces. You get to see and be part of a large scale commercial music festival taking shape with thousands of technicians and vendors coming together to make the festival go smoothly.
It was a lot of hard work for both projects and very rewarding at the end. The second is custom visuals and VJing for a dubstep producer Datsik performing at the Sahara dance tent. One is a big scale art installation called ‘The Gateway’ involving numerous content artists including Beeple contributing animation for video mapping. In 2012 I got involved in two larger projects. In 2008 I was invited to do a mobile video projection and light installation called Lantern Coral, it was one of the first mobile art piece ever appeared there. Today it has grown into a beast spanning 2 weekends (with the same acts playing the same sets for each weekend, no other festival is doing this), attracting hundreds of thousands of audience each say and completely sold out. VJ Fader: I remember first going to Coachella when I was in college, that’s around the time when this festival first started at a much smaller scale.
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Sounds fancy! How to get there as a visual artist? Lumen: Let’s talk about your Coachella experience. For me learning the fundamental subjects like art history, color theory, design, composition and animation was helpful in my career. My feeling is with traditional Art studies, especially for Fine Art education in Europe, seems it is more about deconstructing and unfollowing any Art trend or style, where developing a concept is more important than say learning a skill. VJ Fader: This really depends on the school and the person. Lumen: There’s a common opinion that education in the art related fields is more useful for networking rather than skills. I spent a lot of the time in the media lab second half of my studies working on 3D animation, interactive and also sound design. For me, I learned a lot of technical skills starting from the traditional painting and drawing to digital media. Unlike most colleges or universities in America, it is totally not a ‘party’ school, my fellow students often stay up and work all night trying to compete their class assignments. VJ Fader: Art Center is one of the well known design schools on the west coast of United States. How did it help you develop skills and vision? Lumen: You studied Illustration at the Art Center in Pasadena, California. I did not see much visuals at music events, and I can say the same even today in 2018, this one of the motivating factor for me to push VJing forward. Around the time when I graduated from university, I went around clubs and asked if I could VJ at their parties in Los Angeles. VJ Fader: My first VJ gig was at a small dance club called Star Shoes (now closed) in Hollywood back in 2002. Also, James compares popular festivals, shares his most memorable live mixing experience, and fantasizes about the nearest future of VJing.
Now he’s based in Berlin, working on a new marketplace for visual artists all over the world. VJ Fader started his VJing career while he was studying art in California.
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