Vaz® is an M_Peg3 Player.

A project from 1999 (text from same time)

These are fast becoming the defacto standard for the distribution of sound on the internet, and there will always be a demand for an interface to play *.mpg Madja is an interface to the Vaz¨ player, existingas a character that lives on your screen. She will, if provoked in the appropriate manner play your Music files, dance, talk, etc....

She will appear when the computer starts up and hang out with you on the computer screen killing time until you need her for something. I will produce more than one interface, more than one personality to live on your screen, subsiquent 'skins' as I call them, if present on the screen at the same time will interact with each other as well as interacting with the user. Vaz will soon have a Male interface 'skin' called MeVurt who can hang out with you and Madja.

Vaz® will be produced using Illuminator, a new multimedia development platform developed by TEXTware A/S in Denmark. The software works in a similar way to Macromedia's Director, allowing pre-rendered media elements to be controlled real time by user interaction. Illuminator has some very special extra powers. Using this software we will be able to create a vector shaped application window. this will allow us to impose the Madja® interface directly over the operating system.

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Bytesized has been developed by VIVID in response to the rapid developments in digital media and net technology over the past 5 years. Debates and technology move on constantly: and byte sized positions itself to allow high impact exploration through small scale works.

6 artists have been commissioned to create digital art works that whilst existing within 1 MB of memory, push the boundaries where confined space and the latest digital tools meet. The results form a virtual playground fusing the commercial and the conceptual.

Byte Sized embraces the notion of creative potential and confined space. The six artists you will find here vary in conceptual approach and intrigue in their methodologies.

All share a desire to experiment.