VJ History -- influences and dates

[videoteque]

As so many things, italians do it first. The "futuristi" where talking about audiovisual music a long time ago...

futuristi in english

[aliennation2002]

Hi Graham
I Started VJing in Reading as Third Eye Lighting about 1990-1991.
I picked up some CRT video Projectors at auction, bought a video mixer and two VHS recorders.
Using a combination of the strobe control (to make the video appear to slow down) and cross fading I would make the video appear to be running to the beat of the band.
At the time I don't think there any other people around the Reading area doing this sort work.
I combined this work with standard lighting and roboscans.
The nearest I saw to Video projection at the time was Fruit Salad lighting who would sequence groups of slide projectors to create animation effects.

[Liquidmetro]

I used Bainbridge Bishop as a source in my university project some years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_organ
http://dataisnature.com/?p=443

I guess colour organs were technically AV, not silent VJing but still interesting!

[visualove]

Emergency Broadcast Network 1991
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergen...adcast_Network

Good books on media art which might have some performance visuals references are

Ars Electronica Facing the Future Timothy Druckrey MIT Press 1999

Expanded Cinema Gene Youngblood 1970

Illuminating Video Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer 1991