
VJ or veejay (from Video Jockey, by analogy with disc jockey or DJ or "deejay") is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. == Live visual artists == Although less known by mainstream folks, the word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. It originates from a parallel with DJs, although most VJs nowadays have more to do with musicians than with DJs. Often using an analog vision mixer, VJs blend and superimpose various inputs over clips. In recent years, musical instrument makers have begun to make specialty equipment for VJing. Popular hardware include the Edirol [http://www.edirol.com/products/info/v4.html V4], Pansonic MX & AVE series mixers and Korg's [http://www.korg.com/ Entrancer] effects unit. The evolution of computers has allowed for VJ-specific programs to be produced and has allowed for easier accessibility to the art form. === AVIT === In recent years VJings popularity has allowed for more Visual Art specific events to be organised. The biggest of these is [http://www.avit.info AVIT], now held approximately once a year in the UK, Germany and North America. There have also been smaller events held in Latin America. AVIT has 4 main purposes: * To increase public participation in VJing * To facilitate the development and skills base of existing VJ's * To raise the profile of live video performance as an art form * To capitalise on the networked community of [http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com] [http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com] is the internet's most popular VJ community and actively promotes the scene via its forums and community. With over 6700 members, it allows for an open content system similar to Wikipedia. === VJ Resources === * [http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com VJ Community]: articles, profiles, talk... * [http://www.quantize.co.nz Quantize.co.nz : NZ VJ Community] - New Zealand VJ Forums and Resourses * [http://www.channel4.com/pixnmix PIXnMIX] - Channel4's VJ education project. * [http://www.la-va.org la-va.org] - Los Angeles VJ network * [http://www.la-va.org VJ Forum] - German VJ Discussion Board * [http://envol.info/vj/ envol! VJ] - Japanese VJ blog * [http://www.vjsputnik.com/cutecast/cutecast.pl New York City VJ] - NYC VJ Bulletin Board * [http://www.thevjs.com The VJ's Festival]: "The best window for your exposition in Latin America, Europe and more..." * [http://lecollagiste.mylinea.com/v_i_d_e_o_-/vjs/ Annuaire VJing] - Directory of bonds Vjing * [http://www.vjtorrents.com VJTorrents] - Downloads of Live VJ Mixes via Bittorrent/RSS * [http://www.telenoika.net Telenoika.NET] - Telenoika Audiovisual Open Creative Community * [http://www.vjquebec.com VJ québec] - Discussion Board for VJ of the province of Québec (canada) === VJ Hardware === * [http://lividinstruments.com/instruments.php Livid Tactic and Viditar] * [http://www.eyetrap.net/hardware/chromascope.html Chromascope Video Synthesiser] * [http://www.edirol.com/products/info/v4.html Edirol V4] * [http://www.vjcentral.com/hardware/view/id/fairlight_cvi Fairlight CVI] * [http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=KPE1 Korg KPE1 Entrancer] * [http://www.pioneer.co.jp/cdj/dvj/ Pioneer DVJ-X1] * [http://www.rho-d.co.uk/hardware Rho-D Hardware]Custom Video Equipment and Modification * [http://www.xynth.net XYNth V1] Hypervisual Synthesizer - 2D/3D/AVI === VJ software === * Cross-platform: ** [http://www.lividinstruments.com/ Livid Union 1.5] - Full VJ mixing performance instrument ** [http://www.widewhitevoid.com/ 3DJ 1.1] - Mac/Win32 Video Layering/Effects ** [http://www.arkaos.net/ Arkaos VJ] - Mac/Win32 Clip Triggering/Effects ** [http://draves.org/bomb Bomb] - Mac/Win/Linux Visual Musical Instrument ** [http://www.robotfunk.com/flowmotion/ Flowmotion] - Mac/Win32 Video Mixing/Effects ** [http://www.freeframe.org FreeFrame] Open Source - Mac/PC/Linux crossplatform video effects ** [http://optickle.com/pages/en/newmedia.php Visulator 2.5] - Mac/Win32 Multi Layer Triggering/Effects ** [http://www.vidvox.net/grid2.html GRID] - Mac / Win XP Movie Triggering ** [http://www.videokonferenz-berlin.de/videokonferenz.php ES-X] - Mac OSX / Win XP video mixing live performance tool ** [http://artefacte.org/pd/ pidipVJ] Open Source - GNU-Linux / Mac OSX vj tool to make realtime visual art. *API ** [http://www.gephex.org/ GePhex] - Linux/Win32 Open Source ** [http://www.digitalstage.net/en/ Motion Dive] -Mac/Win32 ** [http://www.neuromixer.com/ Neuromixer Pro] - Mac/Win32 Video Mixing ** [http://www.rcfuse.com/ Rythmic Circle Fuse] -Mac/Win32 ** [http://VLIGHT.TO/MXR/ VLIGHT.MXR] - Mac(beta)/Win32 ** [http://www.cycling74.com/products/index.html MAX/MSP + Jitter] - Mac/Win32 Development Environment * Win32 ** [http://mxwendler.org/ MXwendler] - hardware/pixelshader oriented ** [http://aestesis.org/ Aestesis] ** [http://opentzt.sourceforge.net/ OpenTZT] - Open Source ** [http://www.neuromixer.com/ Neuromixer Vdrum] - Audio/Video Step Sequencer ** [http://www.loosegoose.nl/ Pilgrim] ** [http://www.resolume.com/ Resolume] ** [http://www.galago.fr/ Smode Studio] ** [http://www.visualjockey.com/ VisualJockey] ** [http://www.vjamm.com VJamm] ** [http://jasondorie.com/midivid/ MidiVid GPU] ** [http://vvvv.meso.net vvvv] a multipurpose toolkit ** [http://www.slvtn.com Salvation] Modular (Node-based) Visuals Creation and Software Toolkit * Macintosh ** [http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html Isadora] Node-Based Visuals Creation ** [http://www.sonoluca.com/ Klangfarben] ** [http://www.garagecube.com/modul8/ Modul8] Video Mixing/Effects ** [http://vjsputnik.com/soyuz.html SoYuZ] free open GL Jitter based vj software from VJ SPuTNiK ** [http://www.pixelshox.com Pixelshox] (now Quartz Composer in Tiger) Node-Based Visuals Creation ** [http://www.vidvox.net/vdmx.html VDMXX] Video MIxing/Effects *Linux ** [http://freej.dyne.org/ FreeJ] - Open Source ** [http://veejay.sourceforge.net/ Veejay] - Open Source === VJ labels === * [http://www.eye-con.tv www.eye-con.tv] EYE|CON Austrian VJ Label * [http://www.ibizuales.com www.ibizuales.com] Ibizuales * [http://www.notv.com www.notv.com] NoTV Visual Music * [http://www.lightrhythmvisuals.com www.lightrhythmvisuals.com] Lightrhythm Visuals * [http://spotworks.com spotworks.com] Spotworks * [http://www.vjvassallo.com www.vjvassallo.com] MADE IN HOLLAND * [http://www.servus.at/peligro Peligro Visuals] Experimental Art Austria == MTV-type VJs == Originally hired to represent a wide array of musical tastes and personal ethnicities, eventually became famous in their own right. Essentially they were nothing more than on-air personalities, but as the popularity of MTV grew, they began to branch out past just introducing music clips. Soon they were considered by many to be full fledged music journalists, interviewing major music celebrities and hosting their own television shows on the network. As time progressed and MTV's format changed, VJs began to host game shows, talent contests and the like. Soon they were given their own shows based on the type of genre that their "demographic" was interested in. See also List of MTV VJs ==See also== *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AVisual_arts Visual arts] *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AVJ VJ] *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3APixelACHE PixelACHE 2005] *List of VJs Media occupations
Lets move the list - lots of self promotion additions too. User:Lotsofissues The amount of external links needs to be addressed, wikipedia is not a web directory. --User:Petaholmes 09:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC) Agreed. I do not think a list of artists explain well what a VJ is... and I doubt all those guys are really famous and relevant :-) user:Anthere There you go -user:scnd
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VJ or veejay (from Video Jockey, by analogy with disc jockey or DJ or "deejay") is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. == Live visual artists == Although less known by mainstream folks, the word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. It originates from a parallel with DJs, although most VJs nowadays have more to do with musicians than with DJs. Often using an analog vision mixer, VJs blend and superimpose various inputs over clips. In recent years, musical instrument makers have begun to make specialty equipment for VJing. Popular hardware include the Edirol [http://www.edirol.com/products/info/v4.html V4], Pansonic MX & AVE series mixers and Korg's [http://www.korg.com/ Entrancer] effects unit. The evolution of computers has allowed for VJ-specific programs to be produced and has allowed for easier accessibility to the art form. === AVIT === In recent years VJings popularity has allowed for more Visual Art specific events to be organised. The biggest of these is [http://www.avit.info AVIT], now held approximately once a year in the UK, Germany and North America. There have also been smaller events held in Latin America. AVIT has 4 main purposes: * To increase public participation in VJing * To facilitate the development and skills base of existing VJ's * To raise the profile of live video performance as an art form * To capitalise on the networked community of [http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com] [http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com] is the internet's most popular VJ community and actively promotes the scene via its forums and community. With over 6700 members, it allows for an open content system similar to Wikipedia. === VJ Resources === * [http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com VJ Community]: articles, profiles, talk... * [http://www.quantize.co.nz Quantize.co.nz : NZ VJ Community] - New Zealand VJ Forums and Resourses * [http://www.channel4.com/pixnmix PIXnMIX] - Channel4's VJ education project. * [http://www.la-va.org la-va.org] - Los Angeles VJ network * [http://www.la-va.org VJ Forum] - German VJ Discussion Board * [http://envol.info/vj/ envol! VJ] - Japanese VJ blog * [http://www.vjsputnik.com/cutecast/cutecast.pl New York City VJ] - NYC VJ Bulletin Board * [http://www.thevjs.com The VJ's Festival]: "The best window for your exposition in Latin America, Europe and more..." * [http://lecollagiste.mylinea.com/v_i_d_e_o_-/vjs/ Annuaire VJing] - Directory of bonds Vjing * [http://www.vjtorrents.com VJTorrents] - Downloads of Live VJ Mixes via Bittorrent/RSS * [http://www.telenoika.net Telenoika.NET] - Telenoika Audiovisual Open Creative Community * [http://www.vjquebec.com VJ québec] - Discussion Board for VJ of the province of Québec (canada) === VJ Hardware === * [http://lividinstruments.com/instruments.php Livid Tactic and Viditar] * [http://www.eyetrap.net/hardware/chromascope.html Chromascope Video Synthesiser] * [http://www.edirol.com/products/info/v4.html Edirol V4] * [http://www.vjcentral.com/hardware/view/id/fairlight_cvi Fairlight CVI] * [http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=KPE1 Korg KPE1 Entrancer] * [http://www.pioneer.co.jp/cdj/dvj/ Pioneer DVJ-X1] * [http://www.rho-d.co.uk/hardware Rho-D Hardware]Custom Video Equipment and Modification * [http://www.xynth.net XYNth V1] Hypervisual Synthesizer - 2D/3D/AVI === VJ software === * Cross-platform: ** [http://www.lividinstruments.com/ Livid Union 1.5] - Full VJ mixing performance instrument ** [http://www.widewhitevoid.com/ 3DJ 1.1] - Mac/Win32 Video Layering/Effects ** [http://www.arkaos.net/ Arkaos VJ] - Mac/Win32 Clip Triggering/Effects ** [http://draves.org/bomb Bomb] - Mac/Win/Linux Visual Musical Instrument ** [http://www.robotfunk.com/flowmotion/ Flowmotion] - Mac/Win32 Video Mixing/Effects ** [http://www.freeframe.org FreeFrame] Open Source - Mac/PC/Linux crossplatform video effects ** [http://optickle.com/pages/en/newmedia.php Visulator 2.5] - Mac/Win32 Multi Layer Triggering/Effects ** [http://www.vidvox.net/grid2.html GRID] - Mac / Win XP Movie Triggering ** [http://www.videokonferenz-berlin.de/videokonferenz.php ES-X] - Mac OSX / Win XP video mixing live performance tool ** [http://artefacte.org/pd/ pidipVJ] Open Source - GNU-Linux / Mac OSX vj tool to make realtime visual art. *API ** [http://www.gephex.org/ GePhex] - Linux/Win32 Open Source ** [http://www.digitalstage.net/en/ Motion Dive] -Mac/Win32 ** [http://www.neuromixer.com/ Neuromixer Pro] - Mac/Win32 Video Mixing ** [http://www.rcfuse.com/ Rythmic Circle Fuse] -Mac/Win32 ** [http://VLIGHT.TO/MXR/ VLIGHT.MXR] - Mac(beta)/Win32 ** [http://www.cycling74.com/products/index.html MAX/MSP + Jitter] - Mac/Win32 Development Environment * Win32 ** [http://mxwendler.org/ MXwendler] - hardware/pixelshader oriented ** [http://aestesis.org/ Aestesis] ** [http://opentzt.sourceforge.net/ OpenTZT] - Open Source ** [http://www.neuromixer.com/ Neuromixer Vdrum] - Audio/Video Step Sequencer ** [http://www.loosegoose.nl/ Pilgrim] ** [http://www.resolume.com/ Resolume] ** [http://www.galago.fr/ Smode Studio] ** [http://www.visualjockey.com/ VisualJockey] ** [http://www.vjamm.com VJamm] ** [http://jasondorie.com/midivid/ MidiVid GPU] ** [http://vvvv.meso.net vvvv] a multipurpose toolkit ** [http://www.slvtn.com Salvation] Modular (Node-based) Visuals Creation and Software Toolkit * Macintosh ** [http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html Isadora] Node-Based Visuals Creation ** [http://www.sonoluca.com/ Klangfarben] ** [http://www.garagecube.com/modul8/ Modul8] Video Mixing/Effects ** [http://vjsputnik.com/soyuz.html SoYuZ] free open GL Jitter based vj software from VJ SPuTNiK ** [http://www.pixelshox.com Pixelshox] (now Quartz Composer in Tiger) Node-Based Visuals Creation ** [http://www.vidvox.net/vdmx.html VDMXX] Video MIxing/Effects *Linux ** [http://freej.dyne.org/ FreeJ] - Open Source ** [http://veejay.sourceforge.net/ Veejay] - Open Source === VJ labels === * [http://www.eye-con.tv www.eye-con.tv] EYE|CON Austrian VJ Label * [http://www.ibizuales.com www.ibizuales.com] Ibizuales * [http://www.notv.com www.notv.com] NoTV Visual Music * [http://www.lightrhythmvisuals.com www.lightrhythmvisuals.com] Lightrhythm Visuals * [http://spotworks.com spotworks.com] Spotworks * [http://www.vjvassallo.com www.vjvassallo.com] MADE IN HOLLAND * [http://www.servus.at/peligro Peligro Visuals] Experimental Art Austria == MTV-type VJs == Originally hired to represent a wide array of musical tastes and personal ethnicities, eventually became famous in their own right. Essentially they were nothing more than on-air personalities, but as the popularity of MTV grew, they began to branch out past just introducing music clips. Soon they were considered by many to be full fledged music journalists, interviewing major music celebrities and hosting their own television shows on the network. As time progressed and MTV's format changed, VJs began to host game shows, talent contests and the like. Soon they were given their own shows based on the type of genre that their "demographic" was interested in. See also List of MTV VJs ==See also== *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AVisual_arts Visual arts] *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AVJ VJ] *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3APixelACHE PixelACHE 2005] *List of VJs Media occupations
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Lets move the list - lots of self promotion additions too. User:Lotsofissues The amount of external links needs to be addressed, wikipedia is not a web directory. --User:Petaholmes 09:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC) Agreed. I do not think a list of artists explain well what a VJ is... and I doubt all those guys are really famous and relevant :-) user:Anthere There you go -user:scnd
Vj
#redirect VJ
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
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Words begining with VJ:
VJ
VJ
Vj
Vj2box.jpg
Vjacheslav_Trushkin
VJbox.jpg
Vjcp12183.jpg
Vjekoslav_Grmic
Vjekoslav_Perica
Vjesnik
Vjofn
VJoO
VJoO
Vjosullivan
Vjosullivan
Vjrott
VJTI
Vjun
VjutroRano_CroatianFolkSong.gif
VjutroRano_CroatianFolkSong.ogg
VJ_Day
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