During the last three days, the regular chaos at the BCC made it quite impossible to realize our daily grouptalks about interconnecting the international VJ scene online. We decided to try a final attempt to do this tonight at 7:30pm at the M12.

We would like to talk about the centralization of internationally relevant VJ issues and the realization of a web based open AViT “back office� to create and maintain a flow of informations between the different nodes of AViT. Technologies like Content Management Systems, Wikis and RSS Feeds can help us to achieve a better interconnection and exchange of news and infos between collaborating VJ associations around the globe.

The goal is to create a modular hub where different VJ related orgs can hook up and organize their individual informations and also publish their news to VJ weblogs and newsfeeds, maintain closed and open forums and improve the international exchange and cooperation.

If you are interested, feel free to join our discussion.

The last day of AVIT>C23 has just begun.

There are a few changes in the schedule. Berlingrad’s VisualJockey workshop will happen at 3pm instead of 1pm and after that, Blindoff will talk about the famous surrealist club Rachdinge in Spain.At the BCC artificialeyes.tv will present their new VJ tool “3L” (thrill).

Tonight there will be a talk and showcase on narrative VJing and Live Cinema by fAlk and *spark at the M12. Around midnight Crustea will show a custom made interactive facade projection onto the side-wall of the Haus des Lehrers right next to the BCC before everybody will move over to the famous underground space-station c-base to watch the showcase of X-Ray-Concept and celebrate a VJ Jam Session, featuring the upcoming Vixid VJX16-4 video mixer.

At their presentation yesterday Vidvox developers Ray Cuttler and Dave Lublin announced that VDMX 5 will go public beta next week. The impressive presentation of the powerful tool - completely rewritten in cocoa utilizing Core Image with direct hooks to Quartz Composer - drew rounds of applause from attending VJs and onlookers. More information can soon be found on the vidvox website.

Finally we have a small gallery script running. So if you are interested in pretty, blurry action pics from the event you may click on the “AVIT gallery” link to the right and be a virtual part of the happening.

Since 11 o´clock cables are glowing, lights are blinking radiowaves are beaming and vjs are arriving. The congress center is fully setup and the M12 club is also online. We will try to get as much information, photos and video uploaded as time goes by so if you are not able to make it, be sure check back here.

features

visual sources

Flowmotion supports the following video formats:
AVI (all codecs), Quicktime (all codecs), MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG 4
Flowmotion supports the following image file formats:
JPEG, GIF, BMP, PCX, PICT, PSD (Photoshop), PNG, TIFF
Flowmotion supports live video capture sources such as
DV cameras, analog cameras, webcams, capture cards, etc. (2 seperate capture sources are supported).
Flowmotion supports interactive Flash and Director movies as sources. They can react to the mouse, but also to variables in Flowmotion such as LFO’s, time, FFT data etc. This allows you to easily make new plugins for Flowmotion.

MIDI

Flowmotion is MIDI controllable
Every parameter in Flowmotion can be controlled by MIDI.
You can trigger clips from a MIDI keyboard.
You can synchronize Flowmotion to MIDI Clock devices such as Sequencers, Drum Machines, Grooveboxes, BPM Extractors.

audioresponsive

Flowmotion features a 9-octave FFT audio analyzer. You can use this to make Flowmotion react to incoming audio levels at different frequency bands.

Channels

Flowmotion has 5 channels, each can contain any controller, and be blended with other channels using Blend, Mask layers, Gradient Wipes, or any transfer mode you know from Adobe Photoshop.
Each layer has a large number of direction and time controls, allowing easy syncing of loops to the beat of the music, scratching video clips, etc. Each channel can be colorized with the infinite color palettes, and can use up to 2 of the more than 100 available realtime video effects.

Controllers

The heart of every channel is the controller. Controllers include a clip loop module, a rhythmic cutup module, a sequencer that can alternate up to 16 clips or other sources, a MIDImap that can trigger clips from a MIDI keyboard, a Link controller that reprocesses the output of the previous channel, and many more.

Effects

Flowmotion has a large choice of over 100 realtime video effects, including support for FreeFrame plugins.
Every effect can have up to 12 controllable parameters, each can be MIDI controlled, linked to any other parameter value such as LFOs, FFT frequencies, time, or operated by mouse. Parameter changes can be recorded, played back and saved.

LFOs

Flowmotion has 2 LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators) that can be synced to master tempo (and to MIDI Clock) or run independantly.

Fullscreen output

Flowmotion can output the composition to the second screen (video out) in fullscreen mode

Scratch pad

Every channel has a pad you can use to scratch video clips. This scratch pad can be controlled by MIDI or linked to any fader, LFO, FFT Frequency, or time value

Mask layers

Every channel has a mask layer. You can use any source, including moving clips or even camera input as your mask layer

Customizable gradient wipes

Easily design your own wipe patterns in Photoshop

preloading video clips for fast playback

You can choose to preload clips into memory for lightning fast playback and effects. You can decide how much frames to use for preloading each clip. If you wish you can also stream clips from disk (without preloading).

Easy syncing of clips to the music

Simply tap the space bar to the beat of the music to make the internal timer sync to the tempo of the music. Alternatively use MIDI Clock for automatic tight synchronization.

Robotfunk AKA Jilt van Moorst is quite literally a multimedia artist. He started out as a DJ in the
80’s, then progressed onto music production and more recently focussed on VJing and doing
audiovisual performances, as well as programming and electronics. Not a rookie in the Dutch
scene, Robotfunk hopes to celebrate his 150th gig this year.
After his VJ debut in 1994 in Berlin, he has been trying to combine his various workfields and
interests  by integrating them into projects such as the Robotfunk audiovisual performances,
diverse installations,  organizing audiovisual events such as live.rel.nl and creating visual
performance software. After being  involved in 2 VJ software projects, one of them the Epic
Generator, a project from VJ Geert Mul and  V2_lab, he started working on Flowmotion, an video
performance instrument that allows people to  improvise visually in a musical context. Flowmotion
is the first software that allows the VJ to synchronize the video loop to the music’s tempo.
Originally designed for his own performances, Flowmotion is currently used by VJs in over 40
countries, from Hong Kong to Colombia. After over 5 years of  development, Flowmotion is now at
version 2.8 with version 3.0 expected this year.
Recent projects include developing video-matic, a project where people in the building
‘Mariendael’ in St Oetenrode can use a touchscreen interface to VJ with visuals by VJ Oxygen on
a 7 meter high window screen. The same interface is accessible from www.video-matic.nl so that
people can make VJ compositions and upload them to the building. Besides producing,
performing and developing, Jilt van Moorst teaches on various schools such as the Interactive
Multimedia & Visual Effects department of the Dutch Film & Television Academy.
Equally at home doing visuals for his own music as for artists such as The Orb’s Alex Patterson,
Carl Craig, Luke Slater, Islandic funk band Jaguar, or with free jazz improvisations, Robotfunk has
done VJ and  audio/visual performances at clubs and events all over Holland as well as in
countries like England,  Belgium, Germany, Austria, Greece, Croatia and Spain. A regular
performer in Amsterdam’s 12-screen ‘VJ Temple’ club 11, Robotfunk recently collaborated with
legendary director Peter Greenaway, on his first ever VJ set.
Musically as diverse as otherwise, Robotfunk takes elements of jazz, funk, electro, dub, ambient,
disco,  and minimal house/techno and breaks and melts them into a twisted, delirious journey for
your booty as well as your  brain. At live performance this is combined with a fresh visual mix of
retrofuturism, natural textures,  all connected to the music in various ways such as syncing and
linking of visual parameters to audio  characteristics, using his own custom soft and hardware to
make it a multisensory joyride.
In his VJ sets, Robotfunk benefits from his background as a DJ and producer by approaching
visuals in a  musical way. Combined with the unique audio/MIDI responsive functionality in his
custom software, a  Robotfunk visual show perfectly complements the music and the atmosphere
on the dancefloor.

artificialeyes.tv will be premiering the beta version of their new 3d live performance software, 3L (pronounced “thrill”) during this 3 hour workshop. The software, coded in C and java, and held together by the MAX/MSP/Jitter environment, allows the mapping of four textures on to as many as 160 3d objects in real time, using open GL technology. Pascal Lesport, Michael Parenti, and Todd Thille will demo the software, which promises to bring a revolution to generative live video artists. It’s unique GUI allows for granular control of all variables, as well as the chaining of individual variable values, in a manner similar to live audio programs The complete interface has a radically effective preset management system which allows for the interpolation of values between two individual presets. The one piece interface gives access to all modules without any pop-up windows, and allows for the importation of movie files without going into the OS menu. artificialeyes.tv will demo the software and invite selected artists to participate in the beta program, with commercial release scheduled for Q1 2007.

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 

m3:agenda is polish vj-agency which is one of the most active organizers of vj-events in Poland. We organised first international vj-festivals in Poland – Visual Flava, we were one of cofounders of polish vj-forum www.tripzone.org. From the begining of new year m3:agenda plans to starting distribution of DVD for people interested in other audio visual forms, real time motion graphics, and Vjing. On AVITC23 you can watch examples of DVD which will be in distributed in the future.

M3:Visuals Gender Battle

VJ duo from Poland – VJ Trotula and VJ Neon will perform live video mix on the two screens, each of them will represent male and female point of view to different aspects of everyday life.

 http://www.m3.org.pl/