Who is DaanDirk?

Daan Dirk has been creating visuals for a few years now - music videos, promotionals, experimental video art and animations. Daan Dirk: "It all started back in 2001 when I found a program called AVS on my computer one early morning." This program can convert mathematical formulas into moving images. From that moment on Daan has been wasting his time twenty-four/seven behind his laptop. "As others got hooked on video games; I got hooked on AVS."

Daan Dirk is also a VJ, using live feed, video trouvés and his own clips. From these materials he creates visuals and beams them over the dance floor. His images always succeed to create a unique atmosphere. Daan brings his visuals to parties such as Plan West and Dans Le Rock in different venues in Amsterdam. Daan Dirk: "Veejaying and visualizing is more than just coming up with nice colours on a screen. Through images a story can be told, a message conveyed or an atmosphere created. Every pixel on the screen can be manipulated - so anything (two-dimensional) is possible." In his vj-sessions Daan Dirk mixes home-made stop motion animations, archive material, rapidly edited images, milk, sugar, spice and chemical X in a mostly graphic style.

Daan cooperates with Jonathan Herzberg, Vidier (Didier Jansen) and VJ Jules (Julien Harrod). Daan takes commercial orders and is on the look-out for new cooperations and new projects.

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