The VJ Book
"Required reading for tomorrow's VJs"--- Flavorpill
Digital projectors, faster hardware, and new software now make it possible to have live control over arbitrary projected visuals using consumer-grade equipment.
Anywhere you can fire up a laptop and a projector, you can show and mix abstract visuals, live renderings, video feeds, news clips, movie scenes, artworks, commercials, words, logos, symbols, photos of your cats, or any other pieces of visual meaning you want.
Artists and theater designers have dreamed of and tried to achieve these capabilities for centuries. Now it's all available, relatively easy and cheap, and getting easier and cheaper all the time.
VJs are exploring this vast new creative territory, running VJ events and conferences, developing techniques and technology, and forming a powerful and growing creative underground. If you still think a VJ is an onscreen host who introduces music videos, do a search on the word "VJ" some time!
If you're interested in the visual arts (or theater, or the dynamics of live audiences, or politics, or even trial law), the question is: What happens next?
Buy The VJ Book from: Amazon | Feral House (publisher)