Description: The first website entirely dedicated to vampling: live audio-video sampling. Includes performer/vampler profiles, history, links ...
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A SITE DEDICATED TO VIDEO SAMPLING ARTISTS WORKING PRIOR TO 2006 This website was created in 2005 in order to highlight the work of early vamplers and to promote this new art. Now in the 2010's as we upgrade the website, we are still working hard on the ground, pushing this medium into larger and larger public spheres. Keep up the hard work vamplers of the world and please send any relevant information about vampling pioneers, omissions, or additions to: info (at) vampler.net. Thanks - Lex Everheart
Sorry if you have come to this site thinking we would be dealing with the noun 'vampling', term for a child vampire . But vampling's sister meaning is convenient because this is indeed a young art and it does have a tendency to feed from its own likenesses. It can also be considered the child of projects such as "VAMPIRE' ( Video And Music Program for Interactive Realtime Exploration / Experimentation (1974-1979) , early efforts in live video synthesis at Bell Labs. And of course there is "vamping", another
VAMPLERS and VAMPLING Unlike "VJ"ing (video dj), vampling is video sampling with the audio attached, performed live. This is performed cinema, from infinitely evolving narratives to plastic psycho cut-up chaos. The potential impact of this type of work is enormous -- creatively, politically, and economically.