Team Red, Team Blue Tie After 24-Collage VJ Battle at Shanghai's UFO Terminal
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Updated · RADII · Jun 5
Team Red, Team Blue Tie After 24-Collage VJ Battle at Shanghai's UFO Terminal
1 articles · Updated · RADII · Jun 5
Summary
24 VJ collages from Team Red and Team Blue ended in a tie at The Found Video VJ Battle Royale, a Shanghai event staged at UFO Terminal.
The battle was built to push back against nightclub overproduction and the usual hierarchy where visuals serve music, instead centering found-video internet culture and VJ experimentation.
Audience members decided each round by moving to the side of their preferred team, while organizers also ran a workshop on internet digging, counterculture and kichiku aesthetics before the performances.
Browser-window manipulation, backend-code tweaks, abstract video remixes and audio-text storytelling shaped the sets, including one round built around video game clips and 8-bit music.
The organizers framed the night less as a conventional contest than as a participatory gathering, and said the full creative process has been documented ahead of a next edition.