an essay on what is it to project

[s i n j u n]

has anyone read this???
i flicked through it and bookmarked it the other night, now its late and im sleepless and at work in 7 hours so i thought this is probably the ideal time to find some words to read.
dont know who wrote it (although i can tell you its from a female VJ) but it has some truly inspiring sentances and exquisite word-play like ferrero rocher.

http://www.fibreculture.org/journal/issue7/issue7_portraits_amerika.pdf

p.s stick with it, skim read if you get stuck, something will resonate the more you read

[deepvisual]

of all things, I was talking to an astronaut the other day and projection came up in the conversation, though in an indirect way.
He was admiring the projection line up grid in the planetarium dome I was working in and he said, that when working on the international space station, where there was no up or down, his mind would automatically project co-ordinates as he moved around in zero gravity, so that up was always up, even when there is no 'up' and what up there is was constantly changing. We didn't really have the time to develop this, but it came as no surprise to me, having had the same experience scuba diving at night.
Leading on from this is the notion that we spend our whole lives projecting - projecting meaning onto a chaotic world through an endless abstraction of symbols and concepts. without projection we cannot function.

this for me is the underlying core of working with projection. its like being a puppeteer in a toy shop - and its the reason why DJs will never be as cool as VJs

[vjneef]

This is a very interesting thought also because it's not just a thought but an actual experience of someone floating in space without any reference.
So projection happens from inside people on the outside, not the other way around.

[haris]

...
dont know who wrote it (although i can tell you its from a female VJ) but ...

on top it say's "Mark Amerika" , seams like he is the one responsible for this intresting essay.

more info on him here: http://www.markamerika.com/

it happened that I went to one of his exhibition " Unrealtime" here in Greece at the Modern Arts Museum : http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?ID=144

[s i n j u n]

ha ha yeah, apologises for dubbing him a girl, the perspective felt womanly...

i didnt wanna reply right away because of your deep words deepvisuals...but i totally agree with what ur getting at.
vjing is a question of perspective and perception, the same mix match of visuals can be viewed a hundred different way by the people who see it, the meaning blurs from person to person depending on who they are and their brain ability to process what there witnessing. also, its a thought ive never considered that if your in space there is no up or down, only a direction realitive to where you are, pure wisdom lies within that idea.

what i love the most about putting visuals on is the ability to create an impact on an un-suspecting audience, who really arnt there for you and had no idea of your retinal sabotage.
i liked the style of mark amerikas writing, it felt similar to the willam burroughs cut up stuff, mark was mixing words together and creating a comparison to the way visuals work, but with the written word.

on a seperate note, i hate the term VJ, what alternatives are there?