Live visuals : history, theory, practice /: history, theory, practice. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka.
• Editors: Ph. D, Gibson, Steve; Arisona, Stefan Müller; Leishman, Donna; Tanaka, Atau
• 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) Léon 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 Léon McCarthy Chapter 9 - AVUIs: Audio-Visual User Interfaces - Working with Users to Create Performance Technologies Nuno N. Correia and Atau Tanaka Chapter 10 - A Parametric Model for Audio-Visual Instrument Design, Composition and Performance Adriana Sá 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 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 projects that blur the boundaries between research, film, music, art, and live performance. Nuno N. 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 Northumbria University. 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 Wüstenarchitekten . 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 for Walt Disney, Google, MIT Media Lab, Michael Snow, and Rush. 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 building his own equipment. 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, engineers, artists and dancers/choreographers. Léon 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 production company MercuryBoy. 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 musical expression, and has been presented worldwide. 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 with artists such as Fred Frith, Jim O’Rourke, and Biosphere. Adriana Sá 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 Lusófona University Lisbon, Portugal. 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). 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 collective Scheinwerfer. 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.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 700.9; Projection art; Lighting -- Special effects; Sound art; Interactive art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000612974; 9781000612943; 9781003282396
• Related ISBNs: 9781032252612; 9781032252681
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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