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. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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