Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
- Editor: Arisona, Stefan
- Editor: Gibson, Steve
- Editor: Leishman, Donna
- Editor: Tanaka, Atau
Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
- Editor: Arisona, Stefan
- Editor: Gibson, Steve
- Editor: Leishman, Donna
- Editor: Tanaka, Atau
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This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.
Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’s mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord in the 18th century, to the visual music of the mid-20th century, to the liquid light shows of the 1960s and finally to the virtual reality and projection mapping of the present moment, Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art and a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture – from VJing to immersive environments, architecture to design – Live Visuals also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context.
This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, students, artists, designers and enthusiasts. It will particularly interest VJs, DJs, electronic musicians, filmmakers, interaction designers and technologists.
Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction - The Long History of Moving Images Becoming Alive
- Steve Gibson
- PART I THE HISTORY OF LIVE VISUALS
- Chapter 1 - Inventing Instruments: Colour-Tone Correspondence to Colour-Music Performance (pre-1900)
- Maura McDonnell
- Chapter 2 - Moving Towards the Performed Image (Colour Organs, Synesthesia and Visual Music): Early Modernism (1900-1955)
- Steve Gibson
- Chapter 3 - Liquid Visuals: Late Modernism and Analogue Live Visuals (1950-1985)
- Steve Gibson
- Chapter 4 - Scratch Video and Rave: The Rise of the Live Visuals Performer (1985-2000)
- Leon McCarthy and Steve Gibson
- Chapter 5 - The Post-conceptual Digital Era (2000-present)
- Paul Goodfellow and Steve Gibson
- PART II THE THEORY OF LIVE VISUALS
- Chapter 6 - Cross-Modal Theories of Sound and Image
- Joseph Hyde
- Chapter 7 - Live Visuals in Theory and Art
- Paul Goodfellow
- Chapter 8 - Live Visuals: Technology and Aesthetics
- Leon McCarthy
- Chapter 9 - AVUIs: Audio-Visual User Interfaces - Working with Users to Create Performance Technologies
- Nuno Correia and Atau Tanaka
- Chapter 10 - A Parametric Model for Audio-Visual Instrument Design, Composition and Performance
- Adriana Sa and Atau Tanaka
- Chapter 11 - Presence and Live Visuals Performance
- Donna Leishman
- PART III THE PRACTICE OF LIVE VISUALS
- Chapter 12 - VJing, Live Audio-Visuals and Live Cinema
- Steve Gibson and Stefan Arisona
- Chapter 13 - Immersive Environments and Live Visuals
- Steve Gibson
- Chapter 14 - Architectural Projections: Changing the Perception of Architecture with Light
- Simon Schubiger, Stefan Arisona, Lukas Treyer, and Gerhard Schmitt
- Chapter 15 - Design and Live Visuals
- Donna Leishman
- PART IV INTERVIEWS WITH KEY PRACITIONERS-STEVE GIBSON
- Chapter 16 - Interview 1 - Tony Hill, Expanded Cinema pioneer
- Chapter 17 - Interview 2 - Christopher Thomas Allen, Founder & Director, The Light Surgeons
- Chapter 18 - Interview 3 - Greg Hermanovic, CEO, Derivative
- Chapter 19 - Interview 4 - Markus Heckmann, Technical Director, Derivative; Programmer for Carsten Nicolai and others.
- Chapter 20 - Interview 5 - Peter Mettler, Digital and Live Cinema Artist
- Afterward
- Index
- List of contributors
- Adriana Sa is transdisciplinary artist, performer musician/composer. Designing and building the instrumentation is part of her creative process. Her research bridges creative practice and perception science. She currently lectures at Lusofona University
- Christopher Thomas Allen is the founder and director of The Light Surgeons, London. The Light Surgeons are renowned for their experimental films, installations, and live cinema performances. They work across the disciplines of audio-visual production on
- Gerhard Schmitt is Professor Emeritus of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich, former Senior Vice-President of ETH Zurich, and former Director of the Singapore- ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC).
- Greg Hermanovic is co-founder of Derivative and Side Effects Software. Greg has received two Scientific and Engineering Academy Awards for the advancement of procedural visual effects tools in the film industry. TouchDesigner has been used in projects fo
- Joseph Hyde is Professor in Creative Music Technology at Bath Spa University, UK. He has Directed the Seeing Sound Symposium since 2009. His sound and audiovisual works have been performed worldwide. He often works with collaborators - scientists, engine
- Leon McCarthy is a software developer, multimedia designer and audio-visual performer in Dublin, Ireland. He is currently Lead Developer at FenestraPro, was formerly Lecturer in Digital Video at University of Limerick and co-founded the Irish video produ
- Lukas Treyer holds a Master's degree in Architecture from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His main interests are in improving the usability of tools in urban planning and architectural design.
- Markus Heckmann is a Technical Director with Derivative, the makers of TouchDesigner, Toronto, Canada. Apart from producing show visuals and installations, he heavily enjoys providing visual stimulus to the techno crowd under his moniker Wustenarchitekte
- Maura McDonnell is a Multimedia Artist and Assistant Professor in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College, Dublin. Her academic research focuses on the field of visual music. Her arts practice explores the visual art space of abstract video using
- Nuno Correia is Associate Professor in Digital Transformation at Tallinn University, Estonia. Nuno's work has been presented in such venues as ACM Multimedia - Interactive Arts, FILE, Optronica / British Film Institute, PixelAche / Kiasma and SXSW.
- Paul Goodfellow is an artist with an interest in the application of systems and processes in art. He has presented his work at venues such as ISEA Istanbul, Transart Film Festival and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. He is Senior Lecturer in Arts at No
- Peter Mettler is a Swiss-Canadian film director, cinematographer and live visualist. He is best known for his distinctive approach to documentary, as shown in such films as The End of Time. He has also worked extensively as a live visualist collaborating
- Simon Schubiger works as a senior principal software engineer on 3D technology at Esri, Zurich. He is a co-developer of the procedural 3D modelling software CityEngine, Soundium2 multi-media platform and the NOVA software. He is also a member of the VJ c
- Tony Hill is a pioneer of Expanded Cinema and has presented his work at many Art Galleries and in Film Festivals worldwide. He has been working as an artist filmmaker since 1973, usually taking on all aspects of production including developing and buildi
