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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00166
- Thesis Title
- LIVE CINEMA LANGUAGE AND ELEMENTS
- Author
- Mia Makela
- E-mail
- solu AT solu.org
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- MA in New Media
- Year
- 2006
- Number of Pages
- 70
- University
- Helsinki University of Art and Design
- Thesis Supervisor
- Laura Baigorri
- Supervisor e-mail
- interzona AT interzona.org
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- english
- Department / Discipline
- Media Laboratory
- Copyright Ownership
- Mia Makela/CC
- Languages Familiar to Author
- finnish, english, castellano
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.solu.org/writings.html
- Keywords
- live cinema, realtime, live, vj, audiovisual, performance, projection, participation, space, time, loop, composition, montage, effect, color music, visual music, laptop, software, synthesiser
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- LIVE CINEMA is a recently coined term for realtime audiovisual performances. Even though the term is new, it has a long trajectory. It is not an easy task to discuss this creative practise though, as there does not seem to exist a written theory or a complete history, or even many analysis of realtime audiovisual performances. Lately some writers have started to pay attention to this visual practise, like Annette Dekker, Paul Spinrad and Timothy Jaeger, who have written about VJng. The term Video Jockey was first used to describe people who presented music videos on MTV, and from there the term has changed into meaning video performance artists who create live visuals to all kind of music. What is still missing is analysis about the content of the works. It seems that the content has been the