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.
Author(s): Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 471
City: London
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
