Workshops and Labs. Teach and share tools & techniques. The technical background to present the creations or the history of the art form is also important.
The mother of data-flow and block-based visual multimedia programming languages with a great community and with literally thousands of nodes. Probably not the mother, but the first really big and flexible implementation. Lately succeeded by vvvv gamma, the very mature original (20y+), named vvvv beta is still it’s own beast to create live interactive data driven graphics. For it there is also a huge list of user contrubutions that grew over the years.
Just an idea… for a Workshop with the TouchDesigner Software.
Just an Idea… for a workshop about Visual Instruments as Hardware tools with a simple function and an predictabe output for further processing.
Just an idea… The basic concept is to do visual music synced with sound. Yould cut it to a video or perform it live. You needed a projector, some selected videoclips and software with effects to perform it live to the beat.
Just an Idea… This workshop will be about combining and controlling different VJ softwares with the help of Spout or NDI. For example, you feed Touch Designer with Spout into Resolume or vvvv into your favourite live performance software. Or – if you choose the open source path – there is the promising Tooll3 as animation software. A short introduction to Tooll3 is given in this workshop.
I have no clue about the paradigm and the math behind it. I am only able to play trial and error. Can somebody show me the trick to understand it? …