[NetBehaviour] Networked Video Performance

[helen varley jamieson]

hi antonio,
it depends what you mean by networked video performance; there are many 
things going on in the field of networked performance & lots of work 
that employs live video.

visitors studio (http://www.visitorsstudio.org/) is one platform that 
enables real-time collaborative mixing of digital media including video, 
& this can be done also to a certain extent in UpStage 
(http://www.upstage.org.nz) altho visitors studio offers more 
possibilities in terms of video mixing. in both of these platforms there 
are limits to the size of what can be uploaded - obviously if people are 
mixing & watching in real-time, there will be bandwidth issues.

there is also wj-s (http://www.wj-s.org/) but as far as i'm aware this 
is not an online platform - it uses the internet to sample media from 
the web, but it's all compiled/manipulated & presented in a single 
physical location (i might be wrong on that, i've never actually managed 
to see a performance).

vj theory (http://www.vjtheory.net/) might be of interest to you, altho 
i don't know how much they get into networked practices. also the live 
performers meeting (http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/), which is 
mostly offline real-time VJ & related performance, but when i was there 
last year there were a small number of us working online & i think it's 
an area that people in that network are starting to move into.

that's just off the top of my head - there is other stuff out there ... :)

h : )

On 27/02/12 12:52 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
> Is there such a thing as networked video performance? If so, are there
> any examples or literature surrounding this topic?
>
> I provide visuals for a band (BiLE http://www.bilensemble.co.uk/). The
> six performers are all connected on a local network, sharing messages
> over osc and manipulating each others' sounds to create one bigger
> sound. In some pieces they each manipulate sounds from a central
> source, or server.
>
> Has anything like this been explored with VJing? For example, a number
> of VJs each manipulating one thing or working with the same content to
> then manipulate it and display it on screen. Or maybe something
> else...
>
> Another band/collective I'm in, Freecode
> (http://freecodecollective.tumblr.com/), has started to look at this,
> but so far only by sending video output from each performer to a
> mixer. I feel this kind of collaboration could go deeper!
>
> Any thoughts are welcome
>


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