Live Visuals

History, Theory, Practice
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-25261-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 872 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Steve

Arisona, Stefan

Leishman, Donna

Tanaka, Atau

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Gibson is an interactive media artist and audio-visual performer. He has presented at many world-leading venues, including Ars Electronica, Banff Centre for the Arts, the European Media Arts Festival and Cabaret Voltaire. He is an Associate Professor in Innovative Digital Media at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. www.telebody.ws

Stefan Arisona is a computer scientist and artist with interests in computer graphics, extended reality, urban planning and digital art. He is a member of the Scheinwerfer VJ collective and leads XR software development at the Esri R&D Center Zurich, Switzerland. https://robotized.arisona.ch

Donna Leishman is a media artist, designer and researcher. Recent works include an AR project To Have & To Hold and Front, a modern cautionary tale about social media. She is an Associate Professor in Communication Design at Northumbria University. http://6amhoover.com

Atau Tanaka conducts research in music human–computer interaction (HCI), focusing on embodied musical interaction. By using muscle sensing in performance, the human body becomes a musical instrument. He carries out his work at Goldsmiths, the Bristol Interaction Group and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord. www.ataut.net