FLxER was born in 2001 as a practical answer to the necessity of mixing the expressive arts of a
digital creatives’ collective. Today it is a free software for mixing vector graphics, audio, video, text and interactive media
all together.
It was born in 2001 from the idea of using a computer in order to realise a live video performance,  similarly to what  was already happening  in  the  electronic  music  production/performance.  Since none of  the expensive consumer video software available in the market did allow to perform in real time, the solution was to independently design and develop
an application able to solve this problem.
Gianluca Del Gobbo from Flyer communication and Alberto Bordonaro a.k.a. vj b_muvis di from Bluecheese, gave birth, grew and developed FLxER, an interactive freeware designed for mixing video, text, graphics and images in live video performance.
FLxER today is also a web-community of more than 4.000 people sharing their own productions.
Due it was conceived in the spirit of “Arts for Arts Sake�, FLxER has been diffused in the net with no commercial intent as a free software in the optic of “trespassing� and in the spirit of sharing and collaboration proper of a community.
The first release was realized in the spare time thanks to Gianluca’s actionscript, Claudio Guerrieri’s (e’lab graphx) interface and b_muvis Videokru’s samples.
Though, the rapid development of the artistic needs required essential adjustments; opportunities for dialogue and confrontation multiplied: website, seminars and workshops became synergic spaces, creative forgeries for updating and developing the software.
From virtuality to reality, from monitors to television, from clubs to theatres, in few years time FLxER has been gaining an international and itinerant character, becoming the incontestable protagonist of VIDEO, LIVE and PERFORMANCE events.
The Software 

FLxER is a video mixer software based on Macromedia Flash©, born to work with a computer in a video live performance.
The latest version is only 37kb and is available for Windows, MAC, Linux & PocketPC, is also available the web version with the same features of the stand alone and full of over 4,000 video of the community.

http://www.flxer.net 

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