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Films colorized by Artificial Intelligence
What exactly did the past look like? Sometimes it is hard to imagine the „real“ look of the past watching black and white films. Researchers are trying to restaurate film classics like Metropolis and others with AI. Using neural networks seems to be an interessting approach, with much less efford than colorization by hand. But […]
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I’m the VJ, not the DJ
VJ Yochee [ˈviːdʒeɪ ˈʤɔkɪ] aka 7dexYochanan Rauert aka Yochee is working as a VJ in Münster, Germany since 2002 and is the editor and founder of www.visual-society.com 7dex.de
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Book review: The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued
As analogue video became useless, analog video became cool. For some years individuals from TV electronics have started to build analogue video fx devices – video synths, video effect generators – for artists, enthusiasts, lovers. There are a few devices that you might have come across already, like the bitvision videosynth or LZX Visionary by […]
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Color IQ
We VJs need to see. At least having one eye and some intuitive instinct about colors and looks are helpful to do a great show with a nice color ambience. There a different viewing disabilities, red-green blindness and blue–yellow blindness, that affect a significant percentage of the population. It is quite intriguing to consider that […]
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Birth of Cinema
Who did what in the early times of moving images – a short collection of adventurous and pioneering experiments which have led to the immersive movie experience of today. Beginning with the first photographed pictures, first sound bits, very first ’special effects‘ and so on. This 10 minute short also includes a wide collection of […]
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Analogue Video Primer by LZX Industries
With advancing digital video formats it seems like the knowledge about analog video gets lost very fast as it is not needed any more. That knowledge seems somewhat exclusive to a rich tradition of video artists from the 1960′s and 1970′s. One of the most straight forward analog video synthesizer developers of today are LZX […]
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Wideoteka @ WRO art center
WRO, based in Wrocław, Poland, owns the largest collection of media art in Poland and now has launched of a new online video resource dedicated to presenting its thematic collections and multimedia publications that are no longer available in physical form. Continuously updated since 1989, WRO museum holds both Polish and international works, including video […]
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superflow algorithm
Superflow is an algorithm for visual harmony and viusic (visual music), that can be used in 3d programs like 3ds Max, blender oder cinema4d and was discovered and developed by Ian Clemmer. In a way the results of superflow look like the cymatic structures that you would get from soundwaves influencing little particles, e.g. the […]
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beat/blink/sync
beat/blink/sync is a book about audiovisual culture, aiming to explain vjing as a form of synaesthetic performance. Unfortunately this book is written in german, as it is closely related to a part of Maximilian Mittermeiers thesis in communication design at Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg, Germany. But anyway, it has many colorful pictures and schematics, that might […]
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respect your vj
VJ – also known as visualist, projectionist, live mix video artist – not your videographer, not your filmmaker – we are perfomers. Mixing our video artworks LIVE to the music all around, with our fingers on our gear, and our eyes on the crowd, projections, and screens. Our performances unfold as the evening unfolds. For […]
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Chaos Computer Club (Germany) – Podcast on VJing
This is for german readers and listeners only, I’m sorry. But have a Look at the links, they might be interesting as well 🙂 Vor einigen Jahren wurde mir von einem nerdigen Freund dieser Podcast vom CCC empfohlen. O-Ton: „Der VJ als Hacker in Deinem Kopf.“ Demnach gibts Visuals (und hacker) seit der Zeit der […]
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I’m a VJ
What’s your opinion? Is VJing a daily battle against the evil forces? Have you ever had bad experiences with greedy clubmanagers, drunken party people, faulty hardware or buggy software? How do you think can visuals change the world? Fell free to leave a comment 😉 [via Keun Phunk @ facebook] VJ Yochee [ˈviːdʒeɪ ˈʤɔkɪ] aka […]
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„Promoter vs VJ“ True stories inspired by Kyle Lyons
This is the real deal. In the 10 years that I have been working as a video artist around the globe there are plenty of shady characters that will literally suck the life energy right from you all the while trying to rip you off of your well deserved hard earned money. You would think […]
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vjtheory.net
Actually this page about a theory of vjing doesnt seem to be actively maintained, the last articles reaching back to 2009. But anyways vjtheory.net seems to be a good starting point for theoretical research and reading about vjs and their visual works, offering a small collection of interviews with visual performers and texts e.g. about […]
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visuals are evolving
Quote by Alec Troniq: „Live visuals are giving a very modern feeling to every event of any type. The times of the cheesy disco-light-bulb-bling-bling have past in the last century. New interacting technologies and brilliant creatives are bringing another art (in motion) to the dancefloors – and so are extending a simple dancing party to […]
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Welcome to Visual-Society.com!
In the next weeks or months we will try to establish an all new home for VJ related content and to gather different VJ related topics which are still hard to find in the interweb. The broader the range the more people we can get in here and connect with each other. We like to […]