Boing-boing points to a new book by Paul Spinrad, The VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance. The inclusion of interviews and a history of VJ culture make it interesting even if you're not planning on breaking out Grid Pro for your next rave. Includes DVD with software and clips. The website above include links to text video clips and text excerpts. Here's a cool snip from an interview with Kathleen Forde on research and development as performance:
If you look at the development of the software that live visual artists use from a time-line perspective, you can see a real influence of what came before and what after, a clear evolution. Research and design and programming and software are their own art form… We're getting to a point where the research and the process of creating tools that enable more artwork to be made is, to me, almost an extension of Performance as Object-- sometimes that's as much of an artistic moment as many of the objects, performances, and scores, that come out of it.[via Boing Boing] Posted by johndanseven at October 6, 2005 08:03 PM