English:Visual Kitchen (Q194579)

Visual Kitchen is an audiovisual arts company that creates visuals and installations for contemporary music and performance projects. An initiative of Sam Vanoverschelde and Jurgen Van Gemert, it was originally founded as a VJ collective, focusing on the production of electronic music in the late 1990s. While their first productions were meant for entertainment, the company's focus shifted when Vanoverschelde and and Van Gemert started working together with contemporary classic and electronic musicians. Since then Visual Kitchen took on a more personal and semiotic approach and started conducting research about the semantics of live AV-performance and video art. This led to the production of the acclaimed performance Pole für 2, in which a score by K.H. Stockhausen was translated into video parameters. Characteristic for the productions of Visual Kitchen are the dazzling trips of visual flux, rigorously combining structured loops with software or hardware generated chaos.

Visual Kitchen co-founded Cimatics, a festival and a platform for AV- performance and contemporary media art in Belgium. Visual Kitchen has been collaborating in a wide range of music projects, from Schubert to Sondheim, AFX to Feldman or Huoratron to Harvey.