Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice

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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. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Long History of Moving Images Becoming Alive Part I The History of Live Visuals 1 Inventing Instruments: Colour-Tone Correspondence to Colour-Music Performance (Pre-1900) 2 Moving Towards the Performed Image (Colour Organs, Synesthesia and Visual Music): Early Modernism (1900–1955) 3 Liquid Visuals: Late Modernism and Analogue Live Visuals (1950–1985) 4 Scratch Video and Rave: The Rise of the Live Visuals Performer (1985–2000) 5 The Post-Conceptual Digital Era (2000–Present) Part II The Theory of Live Visuals 6 Cross-Modal Theories of Sound and Image 7 Live Visuals in Theory and Art 8 Live Visuals: Technology and Aesthetics 9 AVUIs: Audio-Visual User Interfaces: Working With Users to Create Performance Technologies 10 A Parametric Model for Audio-Visual Instrument Design, Composition and Performance 11 Presence and Live Visual Performance Part III The Practice of Live Visuals 12 VJing, Live Audio-Visuals and Live Cinema 13 Immersive Environments and Live Visuals 14 Architectural Projections: Changing the Perception of Architecture With Light 15 Design and Live Visuals Part IV Interviews With Key Practitioners 16 Interview 1: Tony Hill, Expanded Cinema Pioneer 17 Interview 2: Christopher Thomas Allen, Founder and Director, The Light Surgeons 18 Interview 3: Greg Hermanovic, CEO, Derivative 19 Interview 4: Markus Heckmann, Technical Director, Derivative; Programmer for Carsten Nicolai and Others 20 Interview 5: Peter Mettler, Digital and Live Cinema Artist Afterword Index