Flyer communications / FLxER, “FLxER”

from REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory

Club culture has been an extremely fertile place for media experimentation and innovation since its birth. From the innovations brought on by hip-hop, house music and electronic music, technologies and technological practices have always found fast and creative adoption. Furthermore, the contamination with street cultures have always granted specific sensibilities with the possibilities offered by the imaginaries connected to the ideas of remix, recontextualization, loop, cut-up, recycling and reinvention of sounds, images and devices.
From sound to visual. Clubs' consolles are progressively more populated by etherogeneous roles: first DJs, then VJs and, in a continuous evolution, with people capable of coordinating sound samples, images, software and electronic devices.
FLxER is a software that was born right in the middle of these events, and it has been able to effectively leverage technologies, aesthetics, social, political and political instances of art and creativity.
A freely available software, a live and multicultural community, a social environment that truly exists in both physical and digital worlds, multiple forms of content and knowledge sharing practices that are not barely nominal, but act as a base principle for all the software and social platforms involved.
From the authors:
"FLxER was born in 2001 as a practical answer to the necessity of mixing the expressive arts of a digital creatives’ collective. Today it is a free software for mixing vector graphics, audio, video, text and interactive media all together.
FLxER today is also a web-community of more than 4.000 people sharing their own productions.
From virtuality to reality, from monitors to television, from clubs to theatres, in few years time FLxER has been gaining an international and itinerant character, becoming the incontestable protagonist of VIDEO, LIVE and PERFORMANCE events."

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