Top 20 VJs of 2008 - 4youreye (Austria)

4youreye was established in the early 1990s (by Gerald Herlbauer) and is based on the Rave, Ambient and Club culture of that decade. 4youreye have, since their creation over 10 years ago, not only made a name for themselves in their own country but can also look back on many successful international performances. The 2 man Crew stand for fasthard cuts and unconventional screen sequences taking images that we believe to know > from old viewing habits, out of their original context to then generate them into a completely new context. That, what Music tries its best to express, is portrayed here in always changing picture collages.
+ Artist alias(es) and real name, age: 4youreye, eva bischof & gery herlbauer
+ Preferred URL links: www.4youreye.at, www.myspace.com/4oureye
+ Primary country and area of influence: Austria / vienna
+ Primary label, affiliation, collective, and/or residency:
eye(con (our vj network) www.eye-con.tv
residency: flex club Vienna www.flex.at
4youreye 2005 demo reel

+ Promo - upcoming gigs, releases, etc:
- video for Ned Rise from Houztekk Records – was already played on Austrian TV some days ago. www.houztekk.com
- gig with Trentemøller next January
- sound:frame festival in Vienna www.soundframe.at - I am going to write an article for the festival catalogue about the beginnings of visuals and vj art and we are doing an exhibition there also about the same theme
- going to Peking next spring for performances and doing workshops there for Chinese vjs.
- Project “energy union” together with Coldcut – see www.myspace.com/energyunion
4youreye @ Flex Club Vienna

+ Type of work you do:
- Live Visuals in High Definition & Panorama Projections
- Video Installationen & VJ Art Projects
- VJ-Event series & Projekt “equaleyes” www.equaleyes.org
- Projektionsdesign / Bühnendesign
- VJ-Network eye|con www.eye-con.tv
- Projekt VJ-Camp Kreta (Crete / Greece) ww.myspace.com/vjcampcrete
- Maschine360 - 360 Grad Projektionen www.maschine360.at
- Salon Projektionist - Galerie für VJ-ART & PR POJEKTIONISMUS www.salon-projektionist.com (Vj art gallery)
- Houztekk - Visualising Sound 4 Houztekk Records www.houztekk.com
+ Your team and what people generally do (even if you’re solo, you usually work with certain people frequently - how does that work?): I don’t really have a team, but I enjoy teaming up with the lighttechnician or other technician of the party. That works great most of the time. I have a couple of friends that are also VJ’ing but we don’t team up much. We do battle sometimes, which is also good!
Video 4 Silhouette Shades

+ Best gig:
a highlight every year is the URBAN ARTFORMS FESTIVAL http://www.uaf-festival.at/
gery is doing the projection design which is every year more than incredible (more than 400 square meter projection space) and I am doing the vj booking – its so nice to meet all “my vjs” every year and meet new ones of cause and see their work life!
Of course we are also performing - last year we did a corporation with chris liebing – a dvd will be available next year at urbanartforms
+ Non-VJ stuff you do: being just a vj
+ Who you’d love to work with in the near future: fritz fitzke, www.fitzke.at
Projection Design 4 Hewlett Packard