xnografikz - live visuals

"Light is the artist's sole mode of expression. He must mold it by optical means, almost as a sculptor models clay. He must add colour, and finally motion to his creation. Motion, the time dimension, demands he must be a choreographer in space."

--Thomas Wilfred

VJ is an acronym for Visual Jockey, mirroring the short name for Disc Jockey, DJ, known in the music world. VJing is a new visual narrative where images are mixed an created in real-time, as opposed to a reproduced linear film. The images mirror or counterpoint the sound and are usually projected on site-specific screen installations.

--quote from the Mapping VJ Festival 2005 press pack.

“1. Visual Music is a means of converting music to images using a system or set of rules which can be implemented as a machine or computer code.”

“2. Visual Music is a means of expresing music in visual form requiring the active involvement of an artist, designer or director to interpret the music and find the means to express it visually.”

“3. Visual Music has no relationship with music as such, although it may be viewed with or juxtaposed with music. Visual Music is about creating visual relationships which change over time.”

--Paul Friedlander

The term Live Cinema has hitherto been used primarily to describe the live musical accompaniment of silent movies. But that was yesterday. “Live Cinema“ today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time by sonic and visual artists who collaborate to elaborate concepts on equal terms. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term “Cinema” is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.”

--quote from the Club Transmediale 2006 website.