Mapping Festival is an international festival dedicated to live visuals, installation art and VJing

VJ (video performance artist)

VJing is a broad designation for realtime visual performance. Characteristics of VJing are the creation or manipulation of imagery in realtime through technological mediation and for an audience, in synchronization to music. VJing often takes place at events such as concerts, nightclubs, music...

. Held annually in Geneva

Geneva

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, it features audiovisual and VJ performances in nightclubs and installations in gallery spaces.

History

Mapping Festival took place in the following years

• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011

2010 festival

The 2010 Mapping Festival took place between 6th and 16th of May in Geneva Switzerland.

2010 venues

The following venues hosted events using Mapping 2010

• Bâtiment d’art contemporain (BAC)
• Cinéma Spoutnik / Usine
• Espace St Gervais
• MÀD
• Théâtre de la Parfumerie
• Théâtre du Grütli
• Zoo / Usine

2010 artists

The following artists performed at Mapping 2010

• :NA:
• .MRT
• A Free Mind
• A.LTER S.ESSIO
• A1 Bassline
• Akinetik
• alex posada / MID
• Anat Ben David
• Andreco/Teatrino Elettrico
• ANTIVJ
• Aphte Punk
• BewegtBildBau
• Blanche and Bobby Kebab
• blowshe
• Büro Destruct
• Camille DeDieu
• Charlie Mars & Zôl
• ChicksOnSpeed
• Chloé Tallot and Arnout Hulskamp
• Conférence - Ulrich Fischer
• Crazy Girl
• D-Fuse
• Dachshund
• Dan Wilcox
• Dat Politics
• Debmaster
• Delphine Depres, Diatribes & Abdul Moimême
• Fair Enough
• François Wunschel et Fernando Favie
• Gangpol und mit
• Gerbem
• Granular Synthesis
• GRAPHSET
• Herman Kolgen
• Hijak
• HK119
• Hostage
• Ivy
• Jaimie Fanatic
• Jellyfish
• Kate Wax
• KRMT
• L'art immersif
• La Loutre
• La réalité augmentée
• Laolu
• Le Catcheur et La Pute
• Lichterloh
• Loccomotion
• Lucille Calmel & Philippe Boisnard
• Luke Slater
• LuLùxpo
• luma.launisch
• M&Y
• Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD
• Marie-Avril
• Matthias Oostrik
• MetaMapping
• Modul8
• Momo1030
• Motomichi
• Munken
• No Domain
• nohista
• NOSAJ THING VISUAL SHOW
• Otto Von Schirach
• Pierre Audétat
• pintaycolorea
• PIPSLAB
• Quel futur pour le VJing ?
• raphael diluzio
• Re-thinking visual
• ReadMe
• Round Table Knights
• Scratch Massive
• SDNA
• Sinner DC & Alexia Turlin
• Skream
• Solo-Mâtine et Delko
• Soni Riot
• Sopha
• Startsladd
• Subsound
• Super E:V/A
• Superposition
• Syndrome WPW
• The Erasers and guests
• Tony Snake
• Uiutna & Steaknet
• Valerio Spolettini
• vj kolouch
• Vj Lupin
• VMS
• VNBC
• Wandler
• wemakevisuals
• Wiki-Sprint
• Workshop FLxER

2009 artists

The following artists performed at Mapping 2009

• Teatrino Elettrico (IT)
• “Forbidden Zone” - Richard Elfman
• “LED & Arduino” - Scott Fitzgerald (USA)
• “Three Trials” - Randy Greif
• “VJing, architecture et espace public”
• spark & NOVAK (UK) feat Thomas Perrodin (F), Themes (CH), Heike Fiedler (CH)
• A-LI-CE (F)
• Art et nouvelles technologies - Collectif Incident.net (F)
• AVIT Talks
• Beat Torrent (KIF Records/F)
• Berlin Beam Boys (DE)
• Bruno Tait (Kompakt Records/DE)
• Burbuja (ES)
• Burger/Voigt (Kompakt Records/DE)
• Chaton (Plak Records/CH)
• Chloé Tallot (F)
• Collectif Akrylonumerik (F)
• Dachshund (Num Records/CH) feat Superposition (CH)
• Defasten (CA) + Andrew Coleman (UK)
• Digital Slaves (F)
• DJ Yan (Zoo/CH)
• Dothy (F)
• Dynamo Company (CH)
• Etepetete (AU)
• Exyzt (F)
• Filippo Filliger and Dorothee Thébert - “Bed-In” (CH)
• Frischvergiftung (DE)
• Geek Connection (CH)
• Jokers Of The Scene (Fool’s Gold Records/CA)
• Klif (CR)
• Krash On Earth (CH)
• Kro De La Bestiole (F)
• Kromestar (Deep Medi/UK)
• LaptopsRus
• Lighttherapeutix (Cinetrip VJ Torna – Budapest)
• Marie-Avril (CH)
• MC SGT Pokes (Digital Mystikz/UK)
• MEC (F)
• Miss Duckin (CH)
• Modul8 - Ilan Katin (USA)
• Modul8 - Ilan Katin & Eric Morzier (USA/CH)
• MXZEHN (DE)
• Nacho Lovers (Fool’s Gold Records/CA)
• Negativo (ES)
• Okinawa 69 (Kompakt Records/DE)
• Oli Sorenson aka VJ Anyone (UK)
• Or3 & Desaxismundi (Digital Slaves/F)
• Pink Floyd The Wall Redux - John Jansen (2002)
• Pussykrew (PL)
• Raquel Meyers (ES)
• Reactable (ES)
• ReadMe (CH)
• Reflexus (ES)
• Resolume - E. de Koning & B. van der Ploeg (NL)
• Sansculotte & Electric Kettle (DE/F)
• SDNA (UK)
• Sexy Sushi (F)
• SHARE
• Sigma 6 - “AV parasite” (CH)
• Sito Sun (AU)
• SONOM (ES)
• Starsky (AU)
• Strap On Dildos (F)
• Subsound (CH)
• The Bug feat MC Flowdan (Ninja Tunes, Soul Jazz/UK)
• The Erasers (GR)
• The Proteins (CH) feat. Klif (CR)
• Tobias Thomas (Kompakt Records/DE)
• Vector Meldrew (UK)
• Video Jack (PO/S)
• Videogeist (DE)
• Videoman (MX)
• Vj Oblivion (F) & VJ Lupin (F)
• VJ Urbanizer, VJ Vicsek, VJ nano, Kiego Izzok (HR)
• Vjing Initiation (Modul8) - Laurent Carlier (F)
• Xerak (F)

External links

• The official site of Mapping Festival