Interdisciplinary Artists

[raze]

Thesis Title - The VJ Era: artist or technician?

Yes that's right, another lucky bugger who's getting to write their masters thesis on VJing. As I'm fairly new to the scene, I'd love to get a few quotes on the definition of the VJ. So, if you had to sum yourself up in a few sentences, what would you say?

The angle I'm taking with the thesis is using the VJ as an example of the interdisciplinary artist. I went for this subject because I've been slowly finding out that you really need to know alotta s**t to be a VJ - oh and it's given me a whole heapa stuff to write about too...nice!

So, which discipline (if any) do you think is more important to the VJ - science, art or technology? Which background have you come from yourself?

Any additional views on this topic would be much appreciated too...you loverly, loverly, bunch of people :yep:

Thanks

[kallisti]

well art is the driving force that makes you use technology/science to accomplish your vision... it's most definitely about art...cause if you were more down with tech and science you'd be an engineer and not a vj

[labmeta]

i think the arts and the sceinces have walked hand in hand for a long time, id certainly not isolate vjing as an example of that. Even with the paintings of the 15th century where lenses were used to help create accurate persepctive, now the art and science of photography, anf film and so on.

i dont think its that easy to seperate them and definatly i am unable to say one is more important that the other. but i guess we pretty much exist in a time when our creative and our technical skills are symboitic.

[Anyone]

Originally posted by raze
The VJ Era: artist or technician?

Both!
you may have great ideas, but you need the means to realise them.
you need brain power as much as hand dexterity to be a great VJ.

If VJing comes from more an art heritage,
it would be from artists like Leonardo da Vinci,
visionaries and engineers simultaneously.

But in reality,
Vjing comes from more than one source,
probably at least three:
Media Art, Print and Web Design and Geek Culture

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