ABOUT
Laura Ramirez  [Optika VJ]
Av Director - Visual artist - VJ

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Laura is a visual arts lover dedicated to direct and produce live visuals projects and experimental pieces for commercial brands, art exhibitions and worldwide academic presentations. She produces herself and host her work under the name of "Optikal Ink Lab"  an AV laboratory and label.

After many years working on advertising and TV as Filmmaker/producer, she found in 2008 the art based on video projection and light and began to develop live performances as VJ and at the same time started to create video mapping works for different projects related to live-video experiences.

Since then she has lectured and performing as VJ and mapper under the name of "Optika VJ" taking part in electronic art festivals, like Mapping Festival in Geneva - CH, LPM in Rome, Vision'R in Paris. and VJ University in Sao Paulo, and her videos have been screened on sites such as the Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro and at the International Mobile Innovation Screening in Wellington/New Zealand..  Laura also has working in several parties and concerts next to renowned DJ's and bands in South America and Europe, in clubs like "REX Club" in Paris,  "TRESOR" in Berlin and in cities like Bogota, Budapest and Barcelona among others.

As video mapping director she has designed large scales projects like the "AV Invader" in Bogota for 90,000 people during the Summer Festival with 140 m2 of video projection, the first made for this festival and the largest held in the city and she has collaborated in architectural mappings as part of the international crew  "United VJ's" in the cities of Sao Paulo and Finland . Lately in 2012 and 2013, she has been working on intervention of public spaces , video guerrilla and installations in collaboration with musicians, film producers, photographers and painters.


Interviews and reviews

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    Modul8 and Mad mapper (English)
    MAD MAPPER - AV INVADER
    MODUL8 - AV INVADER
    MAD MAPPER - ENTER THE WALL

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    Create Digital Motion (English)

    CREATE DIGITAL MOTION - AV INVADER

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    Review VJ Torna Brazil (Portuguese)

    VJ TORNA BRASIL UNITED VJ'S CHANNEL

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    The Creators Project  (French and Portuguese)
    THE CREATORS PROJECT - AV INVADER
    THE CREATORS PROJECT - ENTER THE WALL
    THE CREATORS PROJECT - AVENIDA PIXEL

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    Review Madmapper  (French-English)

    GARAGE CUBE VIMEO CHANNEL

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     Review VJ Torna Budapest (English - Portuguese)

     VJ TORNA BUDAPEST
     MTV BUDAPEST CHANNEL

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    News VJspain ( English )

    VJ SPAIN - AV INVADER


ART SELECTIONS
Selections, Exhibitions, talks and presentations.

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- MAPPING FESTIVAL Official Selection. Geneve / Switzerland. 2012. VJ set for clubbing and VJ contest. 4th place in competition.

http://mappingfestival.ch/2012/en/types/

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VISION'R 2012. Showcase / Lecturer  "Optikal Ink Lab". Paris, France.

 http://www.vision-r.org/?cat=30&lang=en

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VJ UNIVERSITY.  Lecturer - Presentation of Optikal Ink Lab and  "AV Invader" . São Paulo

  http://vjuniversity.com.br/

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"International Mobile Innovation Screening 2011 & MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium" Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand. Screening - Video art. http://www.mina.pro/

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VJ torna International contest. Official Selection Brazil. São Paulo. 2010. VJ contest.

http://vjtorna.com.br/

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404 Post Electronic Art Festival. Official Selection Buenos Aires - Switzerland - Italy
2008. VJ set
http://www.404festival.com/eng/autores2008.htm  # 75

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  • Official Selection 2010 Videopolis Europe. Traveling exhibition by different European cities. VJ set and video art.
  • Universidad de los Andes - Speaker "Visual Culture and VJ concerts " 2011
  • Universidad Javeriana - Speaker VJ workshop "I'm not MTV VJ" / 3D Video projections. 2010
  • Film Development Fund. Electronic Cinematography Fellow. Digital cinema and new technologies. 2010
  • Salon International de la Luz - Lecturer. Art, video projection and interactive light . 2010
  • Festival ALGOIMAGEN 2010, VJ set.
  • Official Selection Animalario TV. Spain 2009. VJ set and Video Art.
  • Intersonora - Speaker - Meeting of visual artists. Colombia 2009.
  • Hacking Night - Speaker - Hackers Meeting in Colombia 2009.
  • Campus Party Colombia -Jury Twingo Net Design Contest - 2009.
  • Colombia and LARV - Laboratory Creating virtual reality environments. 2009 - 2010

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- LPM Rome and VJ Torna International. Showcase "Optikal Ink Lab" , VJ Torna and Live Mapping contest.Optika VJ 2 place in competition

Link 1 : LPM 2012  -    Link 2 :VJ TORNA ROME

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Member of the United VJ's - International Team with partners in São Paulo, Brazil and Europe, performing around the world.
http://www.unitedvjs.co.uk/

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- FESTIVAL  CULTURA DIGITAL BRAZIL 2011 - Official Selection. Museum of Arts in Rio de Janeiro /Brazil. Digital Exhibition - VJ set.

http://culturadigital.org.br/project/optikal-nation/

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MAPPING FESTIVAL 2011 Official Selection. Geneve / Switzerland. 2011. VJ set for clubbing and contest.
http://mappingfestival.ch/2011/types/?artist=1280&lang=en

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 Cinetrip VJ TOURNAMENT 2010. Official Selection Budapest / Hungary. VJ set and contest.

http://www.cinetrip.hu/en/vjtournament

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 PROPAGANDA Barranquilla - Col. Electronic Art. Allianza Francesa 2010. Interactivity, VJ , digital cinema. http://barranquilla.alianzafrancesa.org.co/spip.php?article281

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Campus Party Colombia - Lecturer and VJ. History and Current Trends. 2009 and 2010
 http://www.campus-party.com.co/2010/campuscrea.html