Narrative VJing or Live Cinema is an emerging subtheme in VJing. It explores narrative structures played in a live setting and therefore is a fusion of traditional cinema with the world of live visuals. Narrative Visuals can bring meaning and depth to a performance that is often missing in traditional VJing. The viewer is presented with an experience which allows for a deeper relationship with the visuals at hand, often via text on the screen and other devices to indicate the story-line. The audience can engage with the visuals strictly on the surface, or can follow the story and take something more out of the experience.

In this segment we show where narrative storytelling in a live environment has come from - tying together cave paintings, visual music, cinematography and modern laptop VJism. We describe techniques that can be used to bring a vivid linear story to the vj screen without sacrificing the spontaneity that make live visuals so effective. In a screening afterwards, short segments highlighting different approaches will be shown to exhibit the stylistic and conceptional diversity of Live Cinema and the almost untapped potential it provides.

In this session avit-networkers will show their point of view to contemporary audiovisual arts. We want to present you some outstanding projects and give some comments to the ideas and technology behind.

by Victor Morales

Explore the uber-powerful cryengine 2 (Crysis video game) as a tool for performance, visuals and installations.

The demonstration will cover:

+Making spaces and objets

+Move cameras, objets and effects through flow-graphs(patches) using physics

+Particles Systems

+Cameras and HUD effects

+Controlling the game from wiimotes

+Face-animations

+Abstract

+ realistic visuals

+Tornadoes

Just a warm welcome to everybody, couple of words about what to expect during the day and the idea behind and some organisational comments.We are really getting excited about this session to be started and see you all there. 

by Bram van der Poel 

1. what is midi

general talk about the history short explanation what it is and how it functions 

2. ableton 

what is ableton and why it’s developed usage of midi in ableton 

3. what can i as VJ do with it? 

midi connection to video software 

usage

AV 

We are happy to announce another User Meeting for the big group of modul8 addicts. GarageCube is a firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 2003 its various projects include Modul8, a professional VJ / real-time video mixing application for Mac OS X, a VJ collective and co-organzier of the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. ilan katin from GarageCube will be showing some nice examples of what is possible with their app.  laptops are encouraged for this session.

 We want to invite everyone using VDMX to hang out a little bit together. Sharing experiences, concepts and presets is the main target for this session. We have some hardcore VDMX addicts attending and they will definetly be able to give some insights into the technology and history of the “video-instrument”. laptops are encouraged for this session.

by InvertierparkMASH is a flash based VJ software with a constantly growing feature-list.The workshop will start with the explanation of the tool’s functionality and get into more details about the specialities of flash: vectors, actionscript, web-ability, platform independence and more.more topics are:

• random generators as design elements
• visuals in sync to music with sequencers and audio-analysis
• expandability through plug-ins
• future of MASH
• distributing the software and hands on tutorial

 QC for VJs, by toby*spark.If you’re Mac-based, you need to know about Quartz Composer. Bring your laptops with 10.5 and ‘xcode tools’ installed.Morning Session: The basics

1. Getting beyond Quicktime clips: what QC can do for you
   • ie. dancing abstract 3d a la toneburst and memo
   • ie. animating text files in your vj sets
   • ie. making dynamic installations
2. Quartz Composer 101
   • your first patch
   • dynamic controls
   • the key idea of time
   • common pitfalls

Afternoon Session: Applying it and getting advanced

1. QC and VDMX
   • QC as dynamic clips
   • QC as filters
   • QC as rendering stacks
2. Shaders
   • Image Kernels
   • GLSL
3. 3rd Party Plug-ins

I’ll also try and be available for impromptu QC surgery sessions, so if you have a more advanced issue, we can take a look in depth.