{"id":7887,"date":"2021-09-30T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:06:45","slug":"tampere-film-festival-launches-a-new-vj-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/tampere-film-festival-launches-a-new-vj-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampere Film Festival Launches a New VJ Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampere Film Festival is launching a new VJ competition in collaboration with media and light event Projio and Finlayson Area. T<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he competition presents video visuals by five invited VJs (<em>visual jockey<\/em>) and visual artists: <strong>Arttu Nieminen<\/strong>, <strong>konstafed<\/strong>, <strong>VJ Hellstone<\/strong>, <strong>Ilona Lehtonen<\/strong> (VJ Visukisu), and <strong>VJ Vixen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The selected competition works will be displayed in Finlayson Area at the media and light event Projio 21\u201326 October 2021. The winner will be chosen by public vote <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and will be announced on 27 October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the VJ Competition gets a 400 euro reward and a possibility to execute a unique live-projection in a central outdoor location at the next Tampere Film Festival 9\u201313 March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With the new competition, Tampere Film Festival aims to stage and promote modern video art ja VJ culture. In the next years, festival plans to organise the competition annually with a growing line-up. The future competitions are supposed to be live-projected, which means that the competing artists are mixing their artwork on site.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/info\/vj-competition\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">VJ Competition 2021<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>Line-up:<\/h4>\n<p><b>Arttu Nieminen \/ <\/b><b><i>Singularity is Collapsing<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>Visual &amp; Media Artist, Filmmaker, Rovaniemi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hcnieminen.wixsite.com\/arttu-nieminen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/hcnieminen.wixsite.com\/arttu-nieminen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>konstafed \/ <\/b><b><i>goofy-foot<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visual &amp; Motion Designer, Tampere<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.konstafed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.konstafed.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>VJ Hellstone \/ <\/b><b><i>Tampere.History.Fantasy.<\/i><\/b><b><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media Artist, Helsinki<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vjhellstonevisuals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/<wbr \/>vjhellstonevisuals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ilona Lehtonen (VJ Visukisu) \/ <em>Yksi tuhansista valoista<\/em><\/b><b><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video Jockey, Fine Artist, Helsinki<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/visukisu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/visukisu\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>VJ Vixen \/<\/b><b><i> Primitives<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video Jockey, Helsinki<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vixenvj.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.vixenvj.tv\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Music (artist \/ track \/ album):<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ES \/ <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huumaava Ikuisuus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaikkeuden kauneus ja k\u00e4sitt\u00e4m\u00e4tt\u00f6myys<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2004)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The VJ Competition is a collaboration of Tampere Film Festival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projio.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Projio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoid.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stereo:ID<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finlaysoninalue.fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finlayson Area,<\/a> and supported by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.varma.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Varma<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2501\" height=\"1309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2.jpg 2501w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TFF_PROJIO_VJ-KISA-v2-2048x1072.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2501px) 100vw, 2501px\" 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