Today, the club scene and cultural landscape can”t be imagined without video-art and VJs anymore. In times of the rapid exchange of informations and multimedia and the internet”s phenomenon of group dynamics and communication, an avantgarde of scattered artists committed to visual art and performance have connected and established a real scene. Whether it is artistic realisation, playful exposure to computers and video technology or the fascination of club culture and nightlife - video art and its derivatives have become part of our social reality.

During the last years, video artists of different countries have joined forces and founded local associations to represent their interests, to communciate and to show their art to the broad public. The largest and most important syndication, which originated from the international online VJ platform vjforums.com, is AViTUK in Great Britain and it”s spin-offs in North and South America. Our association declares itself a new node of the worldwide AViT network and is anxious to represent the ideals and philosophy of AViT in Berlin, Germany and beyond.

Visual Berlin is a community of video artists and VJs from Berlin, who get involved with cooperative projects and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience with the regional and international visualist scene and who deal with the technological and cultural aspects of their art.Visual Berlin organises monthly meetings called “VJ Stammtisch” (VJ”s regular table), where local visualists can meet to discuss and experiment, inspire each other and talk with interested guests. After the communicative part of the evenings, the doors are opened to the public and the attending VJs spontaneously move together and perform visual jam sessions, accompanied with affiliated musicians and DJs. The jam sessions are irreproducable and unique experiences of live visual art, none of the participating visualists know the content of the others. They can only momentarily act and react to the different flows of imagery coming from the peer performers. Creative abstinence seems to be more important in this context than propagating the individual styles, in order to assure a highly aestetic level. The members of Visual Berlin are permanently in an endeavor to analyze and enhance the visual jam sessions to maturate the concept to a new collaborative art form.

http://www.avit.info
http://www.visualberlin.org

Vorstand

Hilmi Baykal (HilmiKillme), Jorgk Laber-Pleger (jorgk), Tobias Last (Kiritan Flux)