It’s hard to know where to start talking about a club act as innovative as Eclectic Method. They’re video DJs, a rare breed of performance artist, who have taken the tools of music DJs — turntables, scratching, sampling, live looping, live effects, and live remixing — and have added video clips, including a whole range of video effects, to the dance mix.

Live video improvisation is not especially new, but it’s only in the last couple years that big tech companies like Pioneer and Sony have caught up with the vision of real-time improv that the the three members of the group — Brits Ian Edgar, Geoff Gamlen, and Jonny Wilson — have been seeking to realize since 2002. …more

by Marianne Rogoff

We’re distracted, our attention is shot, we are under surveillance, and we don’t care! We like being linked and friended by strangers who may or may not be who they say they are. …more