Master and Margarita
AV Performance
Video Jack (André Carrilho and Nuno Correia)
1. About Master and Margarita
“Master and Margarita” is an audiovisual adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece with the same name. Video Jack are presenting it as an audiovisual performance, in a first stage. A web version will soon be released. It uses the same software engine (InGrid) as previous Video Jack project “Heat Seeker”, but the atmosphere and graphical style are substantially different.
The visual style of Video Jack’s “Master and Margarita” brings together a graphical collage of photographic and drawn elements into interactive animations, with an influence of Soviet-period imagery. The surreal, almost demential, universe of Bulgakov is captured graphically. In sonic terms, the references are Kurt Weil, Igor Stravinsky, Can, Tom Waits, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth, Pan Sonic, and Vladislav Delay.
More info / images / videos:
http://www.videojackstudios.com/projects/master-and-margarita/
2. About Video Jack
Video Jack started in 2004 as a collaboration between Portuguese artists André Carrilho and Nuno Correia for VJing and Audio-Visual art. André lives in Portugal, Nuno currently lives in Finland.
André is an illustrator/designer/animator and works for such publications as New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Independent, Vanity Fair and El Mundo. He is also part of the animated cartoon collective Spam Cartoon. Nuno Correia (aka Coden) is a programmer/DJ/musician and is a PhD student at Media Lab Helsinki (since 2006), where he also teaches.
They have performed and showcased work in New York, Barcelona, London, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, Germany, Brazil, China, France, Denmark, Russia and Switzerland, in such festivals as Optronica, PixelAche, FILE, NAME, Electro-Mechanica and Mapping.
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