Anton Marini (vade) is a video performance artist and multimedia engineer.
Marini’s artwork focuses on improvisation and realtime manipulation of video. He plays, bends, rips, tears, shreds, morphs, molds, glitches, and synthesizes pixels to form new visual experiences.
He has created award-winning software (Stereo3D CAT), industry video standards (Syphon), and mobile publishing platforms (Ultravisual). He has co-created plugins for After Effects, Premier, Final Cut Pro, and Motion
Marini is a former artist in residence at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and researcher in residence at NYU’s Brooklyn Experimental Media Center. He has also taught at Parsons/New School Design and Technology Department and performed and taught workshops at many new media and video festivals around the world. He designs open source tools to help facilitate the realtime video performance medium.