Three Layers of Live Visuals: Flying Lotus + Strangeloop + Timeboy, In...
Flying Lotus ‘Layer 3′ – A Red Bull Music Academy Film from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo. Immersion isn’t necessarily about big stage pieces, or hiding the performer, or scale, or brightness. It...
View ArticleGroovy Geometries: Les Professionnels – Move! Music Video, Made in Flash
Beth Wexler – aka Memory Lab – writes with a terrific music video project, built in Flash. It’s a lovely example of doing more with less, featuring some elegant, minimal colored geometries dancing...
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Glitch: Exquisite Textiles, Made from a Circuit-Bent Point-and-Shoot Camera
As winter’s chill sets in, any self-respecting lover of digital visual distortions will no doubt be curling under the protective warmth of a glitch blanket. New York-based artist Phillip David...
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Augmented Dance, in New Daito Manabe Music Video for Nosaj Thing
Dancers become canvases for animated geometries, spawning abstract flurries of shapes and particles above them, in the computer vision-driven choreography in Nosaj Thing’s new video “Eclipse/Blue.”...
View ArticleFlying Lotus’ Effects-Laden Latest, and the Equally-Entertaining Process Montage
Flying Lotus – Tiny Tortures from dlew on Vimeo. Flying Lotus has been as sensitive to visual expression as to the leadership behind his label and musical circle, but it’s this fall that the rest of...
View ArticleAwesome Universe of Creative Coding, Explained in Five Minutes [Video]
“What’s creative coding?” At last, we have a five-minute video that, in rapid-cut wonder, explains the answer to lay people – and can be a serious dose of inspirational adrenaline to people doing it....
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Beeple Beauties: New Free Video Clip Pack is Here, Creative Commons with...
resolume pack one. from beeple on Vimeo. Beeple is one of the stars of visualist culture, and his packs of motion graphics represent best of the breed. So, download these. Get inspired by them. And by...
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Music Videos from NYC’s Aurora Halal: Do Video Synths Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dripping with vividly-acidic synthetic analog textures that wash in and out of shot footage, the new music video for Maryland, USA artist Maxmillon Dunbar is a dreamy reverie of light and image. It’s...
View ArticleDiscovering Analog, Visually: Meet the Oscillator, in Video Synths
Hearing synthesizers is great. But being able to hear and see – that’s another experience. And for all the renewed interest in analog modular synthesis for sound, a small but passionate scene is...
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Fabric and Architectural Form Begin to Fuse [3D Printing]
Articulated Fabric from Francis Bitonti Studio on Vimeo. Architects regularly theorize about 3D printing and a move to architecture that’s more fluid and flexible. But just what would that look like?...
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Laura Ramirez in Rhythms of Light and Color, Live Visual Projects Worldwide...
The art of visualizing from Optikal Ink Lab on Vimeo. Among superstar VJs, one favorite is Bogotá, Colombia-based Laura Ramirez, aka Optika VJ. We’ve seen her monumental Space Invader mapping; here,...
View ArticleAugmented Audiovisual Grid Mayhem, with Launchpad: Daft Punk + Skrillex +...
Squares are gonna fly. That’s what happens when a Novation Launchpad meets a screen meets some mashed-up remixes meets Ableton meets audiovisual triggering. Okay, I have no idea how to describe this,...
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In Boston, a VJ Competition, and a Glimpse Inside the Live Visual Scene
VJon (Jon Bonk), curator of the competition, in action. Courtesy the artist. Along with New York, Boston was really my introduction to what was happening in live visuals and VJing. So, I already took...
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Behind the Veil: Reznor’s How To Destroy Angels Makes Poetry in Light
Enveloped by a sculptural projection of light, the band performed amidst a shimmering visual spectacle. Photo courtesy the artists; check out their Instagram. Amidst a forest of illuminated tubing, the...
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Mapping, Further: At Mapping Festival, Artists Blend Musical and Visual Form...
Mapping: it’s kind of everything. It’s the projected image mapped to the surface. It’s pixels mapped to lights. It’s the control layout you use on your iPad and your fader box mapped to parameters in...
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The Natural World, in Code: Dan Shiffman Talks Genetic Algorithms
Dan Shiffman @ Kickstarter HQ on Genetic Algorithms on April 2nd from Kickstarter on Vimeo. Creative code may, to most people, be as far from the natural world as possible. But in a purely aesthetic...
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Take That, Pong: Table Tennis, Reimagined as Augmented Audiovisual Games
pingtime from videogram on Vimeo. The tables have turned. Forty years after Pong aped table tennis on Atari, we’re watching computers transforming the original game. The table tennis in Pingtime...
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Stepping Up the Groove: Wire and Flashing Light Stop Motion Animation, CC...
Professor Kliq – Wire and Flashing Lights from Patator on Vimeo. It’s digital stop motion – wire, flashing lights, and paper are animated in a crazy-catchy groove in this latest animation from...
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Turning 24 Touch Displays into a Multi-Player OS: Obscura’s Steve Mason [NXNE]
15,360 x 3240 resolution on 24 interconnected touch displays: this is no iPad. Toronto-based freelancer Amanda Connon-Unda headed to Toronto’s hottest interactive conference for CDM to catch Obscura’s...
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Box: Robotically-Manipulated Rectangles Become Projection-Mapped 3D Illusions
Big robots, subtle effects. That’s the result in “Box,” a mesmerizing set of etudes on three-dimensional projection-mapped illusions. Spun and levitated on two robots – the type you’d normally see in...
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