beatfix studios

VJ Phi (Jen Rosselli) and VJ Mission perform live visuals at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge, MA, USA. The technique shown in this piece involves a lightbox, video camera, video mixer, and mesh fabric. Images of the mesh fabric being moved back and forth by hand over the lightbox are captured by the camera. The image is then sent to the video mixer, where a mirror effect is applied. The background is lumakeyed out and replaced with a second image, of live video feedback.

Party-goers create live video patterns with the WiiWhorld visual synth. The project, created by Chris Korda and Jeff Mission, combines the Nintendo Wiimote controller and the open-source geometric visualizer Whorld. Camera by Lydia Eccles. Music: “Rollah” by Rainbow Bright. Edited by Jeff Mission.

Late last year, while searching about for repair parts for an old Rutt-Etra V-synth, a team of visual archaeologists led by John “Oscillocam_TV” Koczera made a startling find. Deep in the bowels of Harvard University, within a basement office space, inside a rusty desk drawer, hidden beneath a pile of Heathkit catalogs, a time capsule from the 70’s was discovered. Scrawled across the exterior was a single word: “Groovy”. The capsule was cracked open to reveal 3 items – a lava lamp, a stick of incense, and a battered BetaMax cassette labeled “WiiWhorld Explained”.

After a painstaking digital restoration process, the contents of this cassette are being revealed to the public for the first time…