October 2010
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September 2010
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Restored Mobile Cinema UK →
60’s mobile cinema vehicle from the UK, lovingly restored.
August 2010
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Johnny Interviewed by Peter Nyboer at Livid... →
July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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October 2009
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CBC News: Exploring the art of veejaying →
Nice article in the CBC about VJs with some lovely quotes from Johnny DeKam
August 2009
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July 2009
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summertime
Be Johnny is back out on world-tour with Dream Theater. We had some amazing pre-production programming assistance in our Los Angeles studio from Bryant Place, who is a total wiz with the Lemur. Johnny is calling the shots, as Director of our Video road crew, and we added the lovely and talented Paul Sangster from Future Lighting to the Camera & Projector team. Stay tuned for updates from the...
June 2009
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Very nicely done mini-documentary on the reigning kings of live AV / VJs in the UK. It’s also an excellent primer on the history of VJ culture.
May 2009
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DYAD: Sonic-Visual Improvisation is the collaborative project of Johnny DeKam and Jasch
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Nils Völker presents his drawing robot, made of lego mindstorms no less!… (full story here) Reminds us of the first every ‘painting’ robot by the grand father of the genre, Harold Cohen, who created the paint robot Aaron beginning in the 70’s and developing it over a period of 30 years.
New BeJohnny.com website launched. →
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Be Johnny worked with New York’s Jacob Abramson Productions to create a live ambient pool side video installation for the Surface Magazine party at Hotel Gansevoort South Beach during the 2008 Art Basel Miami.
Media Archeology: Joshua Light Show & Silver Apples LIVE
Festival Curated by Bree Edwards (Be Johnny) for The Aurora Picture Show at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
April 2009
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Just finished this video mix for Steve Nalepa’s upcoming Flatlands CD/DVD release. We used original footage that was shot while we On Tour in Scandinavia last winter and then performed the remix in realtime with Vidvox VDMX here in our LA studio. Nalepa’s audio track is called 4th of July.
4th of July (v.2) - DeKam vs Nalepa from Be Johnny on Vimeo.
The Manual is out: Respect your VJ
An old-time favorite: Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders, and Future Artists. Love those charts “Past Artist/ Future Artist” and “Past Curator/ Future Filter Feeder”
Ondi Timoner’s newest film We Live in Public, is based on the early days of Josh Harris’s high-tech social experiments. We think its great that Josh is back in the public eye, even if he’s portrayed a bit in nefarious light. Johnny has worked with Josh over the years as a video whiz, beginning with Psuedo.com, and on various subsequent projects.
We Live In Public TRAILER...
We were added to a new video channel on Vimeo created for VideoMovingSystems (VMS) projectors in Vienna. Here is a good video from this new channel that addresses the question “What does a VJ do?”
Vj’ing is about more than cool toys and cool software from professor thrill on Vimeo.
we avoid timelines whenever possible, instead using an instrumental approach....
Packing for Media Archeology http://aurorapictureshow.org/
video art + design →
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