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This book is a faithful reproduction of the Wikipedia article “VJing”, based upon the revision of July 25th 2010, last edited by 77.12.27.96. This book was produced as a physical outcome of the “wiki-sprint“, a collaborative writing... more

The book includes a prologue by Raphael DiLuzio and an introduction by Ana Carvalho. The final editing and layout took place in August 2010 during Hyperactivity, a summer lab at Centre d’art de Neuchâtel.

Aknowledgements
by Manuel Schmalstieg

This book is the outcome of a collective writing workshop that was held in Geneva between May 6th-13th 2010. Taking place in the context of Mapping Festival, an event dedicated to live audiovisual performance art, this writing sprint gathered a small but dedicated team of contributors who spent seven days discussing, expanding, translating and improving the Wikipedia article dedicated to the artistic practice ofV]ing.

There are several people without whom this project would not happen. I would like to thank in particular Justine Beaujouan and Boris Edelstein from the Mapping Festival, who shared our enthousiasm and provided financial backing, work-space, food and accomodation. The whole Mapping team has been of great assistance, notably Stef who has managed travel logistics for the foreign Wiki-Sprinters.

I must thank all the participants in the sprint for their dedication: Ana Carvalho who-for our luck-stayed a few days longer than planned due to the icelandic volcano ashes, Tom Bassford who brought some friction and controversy into the editing process, Carrie Gates who rescued the sprint with advanced sticky-notes technology, Raphael Di Luzio who managed to participate regardless the melting of the ice blocks, Carole Thibaud who did an amazing translation work (maybe another book to be published), not to forget the online contributors who did their best to synchronize across their respective time zones: Alex Berry, CHiKA and Xarene Eskandar (USA), Kenneth Feinstein (Singapore), and Elsa Vieira (Prague).

Gratitude goes also to Ilan Katin and LeCollagiste, who visited us during the sprint to share with us their personal philosophical views on VJing. Last but not least, we are indebted to the 370-something wikipedians who have worked on the previous iterations of this article since it was created in 2006.
Probably the idea of this wiki-sprint wouldn't materialize without the inspiring work of the Floss Manuals community led by Adam Hyde, who perfected the revolutionary concept of the «book-sprint» as a means of producing textual content through a collaborative process that has proved amazingly efficient and exciting.
On a more technical side, our work was facilitated by the open-source software tool Ether- Pad, a web-based collaborative real-time text editor (sadly discontinued by Google after its aquisition in December 2009) which has proved tremendously useful for our project. We thank the German Pirate Party for maintaing a free and independent EtherPad server hosted at <www.piratenpad.de>.

The editing of this book, several months after the Wiki-Sprint, was carried out in August 2010 during the Summerlab, a group residency hosted by the Centre d'Art de NeucMtel. I thank the team of CAN, Arthur De Pury, Marie Villemin and Marie Lea Zwahlen, for providing a perfect context for this editorial activity.
August 2010