TEXTS

VJ scene: Spaces with audiovisual score

Patrícia Moran

"In this article we are going to discuss the projection of manipulated live images which double as audiovisual scores. Scintillations would be: figurative and graphic images, people dancing under strobe lights. At night, in nightclubs, raves and malls, the distribution of screens and the excess of colored lights create experience/space, stimuli/space, create projections/space. The space stimuli presented here promote an immersive experience which approximates other image/space devices, such as the environments found in videogames and interactive virtual reality. On the other hand, they also pull them further apart as they are made up of image/light, of sparkling figurative images or not, in sum, for being structured as audiovisual scores."

Poetics of correspondence

Patrícia Moran

"Screens blink. Nervous images. Repetition. There is no bucolic contemplation.  There is a primacy of the action and/or the affection over a continuous length of time. If the Other exists, it is just to mention a character in another context. The images, which are manipulated live establish temporalities by the evolution of forms. The rhythm comes from the VJ's hands, along with the dance floor's timing."

The Contrary of the Movie Theater

Gabriel Menotti

"This epistemological approach is defined both by the general non-narrative appeal of live audiovisual works, as well as by the circumstances of exhibition of a VJ performance, in which the message is generated, edited or composed in real-time – a strategy traditionally associated with music presentations."

The number-image

Gabriele Buzzi

"In this work we want to propose some suggestions about the changes occurred in the relationship between image and reality with the advent and the spreading of digital technologies."

Narrative Motors

Eugenio Tisselli

"This text explores new ways of narrating by exploiting the qualitative differences between computer and paper, both considered as media."

VJing and Live A/V Practices

N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg)

"We know that technology is closely tied to creative production, as computational speeds increase and technologies become more inexpensive and pervasive, our media world changes from a focus on functions of representation or “objects” of expression to those that include components of ineffable experience- momentary acts, performances, conversation-like interactions, improvisational play and participatory culture.  VJing and live A/V practices are an expression of this change and represent a continued desire for the intersection of the senses, such as sight and hearing, as well as the performance and interface of the body with technology and human expressivity."

"Ghost Tendencies" (an excerpt from Remixology)

Mark Amerika

"Remixology puts into practice the prophetic art
of making things with and out of code
whether it be a poet's direct presentation
a programmer's hacking aesthetic
a net artist's targeted action scripting
or even a live A/V artist's generative performance"

The Sudwestern Saga: Live Media and Modular Narratives Between Commedia dell’Arte and Digital Hypertexts

Marina Turco

"My case study will focus on a group of live media performances called The Sudwestern Saga, by the Portuguese artist Edgar Pêra, that does not fit completely within traditional performance genres nor in new media genres (like VJ-ing and electronic audio-visual performances). The performance (defined by the artist as ‘cine-concert’) makes use of several media and languages
(cinema, theatre, digital video, music), but it is the ‘theaterical hypermedium’ that determines the general narrative structure and the function of new media inside it."

Is There a One or is it a Zero Ideology in the Digital Underground

Elsa Vieira

"I am interested in exploring the connections established by users of digital media on various levels; individuals, communities and cultures, to see if there is an underlying Ideology that connects them and their separately evolving ideas about art, technology and the contemporary world at large. Given the broadness of these topics, the following pages will most likely only scratch the surface of the proposed endeavor."

Expression and Dévisage: The face’s signification from art to reality

Gabriele Buzzi

"In all the authors I shall examine in this paper we shall find, in one form or another, the idea of enigma, the idea that the face’s signification hides (even if from time to time it does surface) something enigmatic, mysterious, paradoxical in its literal meaning: something that passes by our side, that avoids what seems to us common and usual. However there is more to it than that and, perhaps, something more interesting."

Musical Language in the VJing Art

Daniela Tordino

"The aim of this article is to analyse how musical language is involved in all aspects of the process of projecting and manipulating live images ..."

Visual Wallpaper

David Bernard

"Why on earth should the written combination of the noble craft of wallpaper design with undertones of video production techniques feel so threatening to such a wide ranging group of respected VJs?"

Same As It Ever Was - Acts of Digital Re-Authoring

Michael Betancourt

"This theoretical examination focuses on the idea that recombinatory practices commonly found in new media constitute a challenge to traditional author/viewer conventions. Placing this view in both a historical perspective and in relation to the suggestion advanced by Umberto Eco that these works assume a principle of “variation to infinity”, it is possible to recognize that instead of challenging or critiquing traditional author/viewer conventions, recombinatory practices serve to reify those positions and assert an authoritarian role for the original source material. The idea that these practices challenge authorship is thus a form of false consciousness."

Locative Dissent

Jeremy Hight

"The landscape is the map. Our histories of panic, of dread, of the disorientation of shifts and slippages, attempted erasures: all is a map. The advent of locative media art makes this possible.. "