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 Peter Greenaway's LUPERCYCLOPEDIA premiere Sani, Greece, summer 2010
On June 17 2005 Peter Greenaway, director of film classics like The Pillow Book, The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover, Prospero's books and The Tulse Luper Suitcases, demonstrated in Club 11 Amsterdam his first VJ performance during the NoTV CNCDNC visual art club evening.
On music by DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar), 'VJ' Greenaway used for his set a unique VJ system consisting of a large plasma screen with touchscreen, specially developed by technical partner BeamSystems. Utilizing this system, Greenaway projected the 92 Tulse Luper stories on the 12 screens of Club 11 in a multi-screen way and mixed the images 'live'. The result was amazing: Greenaway rocked the crowd in Amsterdam's VJ temple "11", blending his avantgarde cinematographic imagery (taken from the Tulse Luper Suitcases movie) with the heavy movie score remix by DJ Radar. Mastering the giant touch screen the newborn 'realtime image conductor' Greenaway provided a totally new experience to the audience: Live Cinema at its best. The magnificent VJ debut of Peter Greenaway did not go unnoticed. As "real time image conductor" he finally freed himself from classic cinematographic linearity. With his outstanding cinematographic eye and energetic approach Greenaway won the respect of fellow VJs worldwide and hereby set the pace in the toplevel international VJ scene. The tremendous succes of this performance made NoTV and Peter Greenaway decide to take the performance to a next level, and bring it to the international audience by starting the official "NoTV Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ World Tour". The 2005-2009 performance has travelled successfully worldwide with public and media interest exceeding all expectations. We are happy therefore to announce that the tour will continue in 2010, presenting "LUPERCYCLOPEDIA".  In Krakow Poland VJ Peter Greenaway attracted 4000 spectators in the city square.
NEW 2010 / 2012 World Tour:
THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA
THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA Live Cinema VJ performance presents a live encyclopedia for the Information Age: 92 Characters, 92 Places around the World, 92 Global Events, 92 Stories, 92 Elements, 92 Objects to Represent the World, and a blistering end sequence of 92 Atomic Bombs. The encyclopedic TULSE LUPER SUITCASES PROJECT was always manufactured as an up-datable phenomenon for the Information Age, to be responsive to a plethora of new data and new ways to experience it. Since it will soon be ten years since the project's conception and a hundred years since Tulse Luper's birth, the project is being reborn as THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA, re-establishing all the existing information and introducing much that is new, embracing a greater number of screens in new configurations for a denser impact to explore the first chapter of Uranium from its comprehension as an instrument of everlasting energy or total destruction, from 1911 through Hiroshima to the collapse of the Cold War in 1989, until the present day. Through application of the latest multiscreen technology Greenaway is able to take his magnum opus "The Tulse Luper story" to exciting new heights, unleashing Luper's fully immersive potential:
- with new video content
- projected in High Definition 5-channel video
- specially composed surround audio by Dutch 'Golden Calf' Award winner Huibert Boon
- and new state-of-the-art VJ & DJ control system technology.
Greenaway's ground breaking original VJ Performance proved immensely succesful. After a challenging and exciting start in 2005 the tour travelled in 4 years to 14 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Film, video, music and crossover festivals hosted the 33 performances in classic and modern theatres, open squares, industrial halls, amphitheatres, concert-halls, opera-houses and musea.
Pushing the boundaries of cinema even further, the new world tour starts in Summer 2010 with the brand new VJ performance THE LUPERCYCLOPEDIA: immersive cinema created live, and no performance will ever be the same. Cinema is dead; long live Cinema! 
Peter Greenaway open air live performance in Guanajuato Mexico (3000 spectators)
Peter Greenaway live in the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane Australia.
For the new 2010/2012 tour the Dutch sounddesigner / electro-acoustical composer Huibert Boon joins the stage.
Huibert Boon's first attempts in electroacoustics started at the age of 9, dismantling his father's taperecorder trying to salvage a Moebius-ring constructed tapeloop which had miraculously jammed deep inside the machine. This experience resulted in his great respect for the uncomprehensible complexity of audio-equipment and the irresistable tendency to explore the boundaries of acoustical richness of electronic devices. Influenced by the main avantgarde pioneers (from Cage to Varese; from Zappa to Zorn) his musical activities focus on the integration of computer based sound synthesis with the sound of pure electricity from analog electronic instruments (like the MOOG Voyager and Weezil sound generator) and the complex noises from ordinary life. Information & bookings: Information & booking requests: contact NoTV. Click here for press kit.  
"NoTV Peter Greenaway LUPERCYCLOPEDIA LIVE CINEMA VJ Tour" scheme:2010:
> July 31: Sani, Greece - PREMIERE: Sani Festival
> further shows 2010 to be announced. 2011:
> Porto, Portugal
> Berkeley, USA
> Munster, Germany
> Mexico (local tour)
> further shows to be announced. ............................................................................................................ "NoTV Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ Tour" scheme:
2009:
> Feb 6: Berlin, Germany - Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
> March 22: Szczecin, Poland - Festival Of Visual ARts "inSPIRACJE"
> May 1: Gijon, Spain - LEV Festival
> May 8: Rovereto, Italy - Auditorium Melotti
> June 5: Enghien-les-Bains, Paris - Festival Bains Numériques #4 , Centre Des Arts, Place Verdun, 23:00 hrs
> Aug 1: GuanaJuato, Mexico - Expresión en Corto International Film Festival
> Sept. 2: Mantova, Italy, Palazzo Te
> September 25 + 26: Brisbane, Australia - Brisbane Festival, GoMA / Gallery of Modern Art (2 performances)
> December 12: The Hague, Netherlands, Paard van Troje, State-X New Forms Festival
2008::
> February 29: Reims, France - La Cartonnerie
> June 24: Moscow, Russia - GazGallery - Moscow Int. Film Festiva l / Media Forum
> October 25: Bari, Italy (Palestra ex GIL)
> October 26: Florence, Italy (Fortezza da Basso)
> November 18: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Oi Casa Grande Theater, multiplicidade.oi.com.br)
2007:
> March 16: UK PREMIERE: London, Optronica Festival, BFI IMAX (the biggest screen in Europe)
> April 6: Heerlen, Schouwburg, The Netherlands
> July 13: Barcelona, Spain - Teatro Grec
> September 1: Benevento, Italy - Benevento Roman Theatre
> September 30: Sao Paulo, Brazil - Videobrazil: 16th Int. Festival of Electronic Art
> October 13: Krakow, Poland
> November 9: Poggibonsi Italy - FENICE - International Nine Arts Festival
> November 22: Bilbao, Spain - Guggenheim
> December 10: Aachen, Germany - Innovation Award, Ludwig Forum Museum
2006:
> Tuesday 14 March : Zemos98 Festival, Seville, Spain (see photos)
> Saturday 25 March: STRP Festival, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
> Saturday 20 May: VIDEOEX Festival, Zurich Switzerland
> Tuesday 23 May: Hangar Bicocca, Milano Italy (http://www.mixedmedia.it/)
Hangar Bicocca (Pirelli Hangar) (see photos)
> Saturday 8 July: Heineken Opener Festival, Gdynia, Poland
> Thursday 28 September: CrossMedia Week Amsterdam (Gashouder)
2005:
> June 17: Premiere, Club 11, Amsterdam
> Friday 2 December: MTV celebration party, Amsterdam (on invitation only)
> Saturday 3 December: Villa Petrol, Antwerp Belgium (open for anyone!).
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