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  • Introduction

    • Welcome to VV Edu
    • Course Requirements
  • Live Visuals 101

    • Course Overview

      • Introduction to Live Visuals
      • Course Sessions
      • Teacher Notes
    • 1. Intro to Live Visuals

      • 1-0: Intro to Live Visuals Overview
      • 1-1: Input to Output
      • 1-2: Responsiveness
    • 2. Montage

      • 2-0: Montage Overview
      • 2-1: The Cut
      • 2-2: Rhythmic Sequence
      • 2-3: Cinéma Pur
    • 3. Motion Design

      • 3-0: Motion Design Overview
      • 3-1: Stills to Motion
      • 3-2: Color and Choreography
    • 4. Visual Music

      • 4-0: Visual Music Overview
      • 4-1: Abstract Visualization & Color Organs
      • 4-2: Audio Visualizers and the Shape of Sounds
      • 4-3: Generative Patterns
    • 5. Aesthetic Design

      • 5-0: Aesthetic Design Overview
      • 5-1: Styling Your Look
      • 5-2: Mood boards & Storyboarding
    • 6. Show and Event Production

      • 6-0: Show and Event Production Overview
      • 6-1: Pre-Production and Show Design
      • 6-2: Technical Riders and Contracts
      • 6-3: Getting Gig Ready
  • Reference

    • Glossary
    • Bibliography

Online Blogs/PDFs

  • VJing-WTF is it?
  • Live A/V Trajectories
  • Roland Barthes, “Image Music Text” (excerpts)
  • A history of creative coding
  • Why Love Generative Art?
  • Survey of Alternative Displays
  • Guide to Projectors for Interactive Installations
  • Guide to Cameras for Interactive Installations
  • Everything is a Remix

Books

  • Film Form: Essays in Film Theory by Sergei Eisenstein
  • Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema
  • Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, The Wadsworth Series in Broadcast Production, Herbert Zettl, Cengage Wadsworth, 2008, 2011, 2014
  • Graphic Design the New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
  • Understanding Comics, The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, 1994
  • The Fundamentals of Digital Art, Richard Colson, Fairchild Books, 2007
  • Picturing Time, The Work of Etieene-Jules Marey, Sons & Lumieres, Centre Pompidou
  • Stopping Time, The Photographs of Harold Edgerton, Gus Kayafas and Estelle Jussim, Harry N. Abrams, 2000
  • Rhythm Science, Paul D. Miller, The MIT Press, 2004
  • In the Blink of an Eye, Walter Murch, Silman-James, 2 Revised Edition, 2001
  • Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Press HC, 2008

Films and Videos

  • RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Brett Gaylor, The National Film Board of Canada, 2008
  • Everything is a Remix, Kirby Ferguson, 2015
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