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VJam
Theory:
Collective Writings on Realtime Visual Performance
by
various contributors
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original transcript will continue to be available at VJ
Theory website for free
VJam
Theory (collective writings on realtime visual performance)
presents the major concerns of practitioners and theorists
of realtime media under the categories of performance, performer
and interactors, audiences and participators. The volume is
experimental in its attempt to produce a collective theoretical
text with a focus on a new criticality based on practitioner/artist
theory in which artist/practitioners utilise theoretical models
to debate their practices.
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Collaborative
writers:
The
performer
Ilan Katin
Jeremy Hight
Steve Buchanan
Sam Meech
Performance
Camille Baker
Mia Makela
Patricia Moran
Interactors, audiences and participators
Elsa Vieira
Eugenio Tisselli
Masha Ioveva
Michael Betancourt
Michelle Kasprzak
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A:MINIMA:
LIVE CINEMA SPECIAL
ISSUE [dec 2007]
edited
by Mia Makela
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CONTRIBUTORS:
Boris & Brecht Debackere
Asli Serbest
Mona Mahall
VJTheory
María PTQK
Sandra Naumann
Susana Karrasch
Things Happen
Daniel García Rovira
Mia Makela
INTERVIEWS:
Chris Allen
HC Gilje
Kurt Ralske
Johnny Dekam
Casey Reas
Telcosystems
SHOWCASE:
Lia
Lillevan
Sue C.
Pink Twins
Transforma
Carsten Nicolai
Olga Mink
Klaus Obermaier
Ilan Katin
Philipp Geist
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INTRODUCTION
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LIVE
CINEMA- Realtime audiovisual creation
By Mia Makela (revisado por Sairica Rose)
This a-minima special issue is dedicated to LIVE CINEMA,
a recently coined term for realtime audiovisual creation.
As new as the term may seem, there is infact, a long
trajectory for realtime audiovisual creation. Even before
the invention of Cinematographé, Magic Lantern
showmen developed state-of-the-art, optical, realtime
special effects for Phantasmagoria and Color Music pioneers
explored the synaesthetic connections between audio
and colors.....
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INTRODUCCIÓN
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LIVE
CINEMA -
Creación audiovisual en tiempo real
Por Mia Makela
Este número especial de
a-mínima está dedicado al Live Cinema,
un término acuñado recientemente para
referirse a la creación audiovisual en tiempo
real. Por muy nuevo que parezca el término, la
creación audiovisual tiene de hecho tras de sí
una larga trayectoria. Incluso antes de la invención
del Cinématographe, el showman Magic Lantern
desarrolló efectos especiales ópticos,
en tiempo real y muy vanguardistas para Phantasmagoria;
y la Música de Color exploró las conexiones
sinestésicas entre el sonido y los colores. ....
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Some
key phrases from the articles and interviews :
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multi-sensory
universe
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we build, tune and tweak as long as it takes
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a work is actually never really
finished
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"video instrumentalism",
taking a musical approach to working with video
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to react to the available architecture
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There is actually no such thing as computer aesthetics
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instant creation
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the physical presence in an intense constellation of
image and sound
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What differentiates live cinema
from normal cinema is the ability to improvise the narrative
or concepts, to alter their course as the performance
progresses, perhaps even interacting with the audience
or present site-specific elements
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a narrative would spontaneously arrive out of
the dialogue of images
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it’s worth doing something a bit different than
one video screen at the back of the stage
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everything is abstracted
from something
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The predominant process of my practice has
been an aversion to timelines
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I think in terms of systems, so
visual abstraction comes naturally.
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The
Practise of Live Cinema
by
Mia Makela aka SOLU
(corrections in english by Sairica Rose)
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ABSTRACT
This paper is an examination of the artistic
practise of live cinema, a recently coined term for realtime
audiovisual performances. I will discuss the essence of contemporary
live cinema by presenting its essential elements and comparing
the methods of live cinema with those of cinema and VJng.
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Published:
A:MINIMA
magazine (first version, dec 2007)
MEDIASPACE
Journal (Second
version, sept 2008)
Accepted
to the following events:
PerthDAC
2007
The Future of Digital Media Culture
Perth, Australia
ARTECH
2008
4th International Conference on Digital Arts
Porto, Portugal
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Solu
Dot Org : VJ Interview
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An
Interview with Solu
By
Jean Poole
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Kurt Heintz, editor of e-poets:
The VJ today is an emerging artist archetype. Like an
e-literature artist, the VJ works in -- and sometimes
struggles with -- new media. Like a hip-hop artist,
the VJ is often consumed with "mixology" --
seeking the right blend between music, image, and moment.
Like a performance poet, the VJ performs in time before
an audience. Like a poetry video artist, the VJ works
in the cinematic domain hybridized with other arts.
Some VJs aim purely for "eye candy" while
others aspire to fine art. Many aspects of a VJ's work
harken to arts often celebrated on e-poets.net.
As VJs elevate the creation of video art toward performance
at a real-time improvised pace, artists in related disciplines
should be hearing echoes of their own work, coming back
at them with more fantastic technology. The computer
and attendant live imaging software, the DVD player,
and digital effects units are standard gear in the kit
of many VJs.
But visual improvisation, the ability to create original
video art in the moment with little forethought, is
beginning to approach the degree of lucidity practiced
by hiphop spoken word artists and jazz musicians. Not
long ago, such technology confounded improvisation.
Today, it accelerates it. The massive amounts of customized
technology needed ten years ago by performance groups
such as EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) have faded
away, replaced by systems that are highly portable,
cheap, and aesthetically flexible. As the conceptual
processes underlying jazz have now come to electronic
visualization in a broad manner, we can say that technology
has changed, and for the better.
This is just the kind of transition in technology that
signals a watershed moment, and enables the emergence
of a new art. So now is a good time to get acquainted
with the mixology if the image. To that end, e-poets.net
offers a conversation with European VJ, SOLU, as she
dialogued with Aussie writer and VJ tech' maestra Jean
Poole.
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Published
in
3DMag, Australia
You
can find the interview also here:
http://www.e-poets.net/
http://blog.gmane.org/
http://vjglitch.tribe.net/threads
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La
Cultura de los VJs:
De la Industria del Loop a Escenarios en Tiempo Real
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SOLU
Traduccion: La Universidad de Sevilla (Correcciones : Jose
Luis de Vicente)
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Publicado
en julio 2004 y en septiembre 2007 en los catálogos
de Zemos98
y Eutopia.
Puedes
leer el articulo también aqui:
www.vjspain.com
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