Live Visuals

<p>This volume surveys the key histories theories and practice of artists musicians filmmakers designers architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.</p><p>Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’s mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece to Castel’s ocular harpsichord in the 18th century to the visual music of the mid-20th century to the liquid light shows of the 1960s and finally to the virtual reality and projection mapping of the present moment <i>Live Visuals</i> is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art and a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture – from VJing to immersive environments architecture to design – <i>Live Visuals</i> also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context.</p><p>This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars students artists designers and enthusiasts. It will particularly interest VJs DJs electronic musicians filmmakers interaction designers and technologists.</p>