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VJ

: For V-J Day, see Victory over Japan Day. : Or you may have been looking for Vijay (Indian name).

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 America, 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. The evolution of computers has allowed for VJ-specific programs to be produced and has allowed for easier accessibility to the art form.

== VJ EVENTS ==

In recent years VJing s popularity has allowed for more Visual Art specific events to be organised.

=== AVIT ===

AVIT is one of the largest VJ events 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]

=== Optronica ===

Inaugurated in Summer 2005 at the is a high profile international event focussing on the VJ arts.

=== VJ CENTRAL ===

VJ Central organizes a calendar of events. [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.

=== NYC VJ Forum ===

The New York City VJ Forum is a popular meeting point for the growing community of NY visual artist and real time video performers. [http://nyc-vj.com http://nyc-vj.com].

=== VJ Torrents ===

Examples of live VJ shows are available at [http://vjtorrents.com VJTorrents].

== VJ Resources ==

[http://vjcentral.com VJCentral.com VJ Community]: articles, profiles, talk...

[http://www.vjtv.net VJTV] - On-Line Series Featuring VJs & Visual Artists

[http://www.nyc-vj.com New York City VJ Forum] - The New York City VJ Community

[http://www.quantize.co.nz Quantize.co.nz : NZ VJ Community] - New Zealand VJ Forums and Resourses

[http://www.audiovisualizers.com AudioVisualizers.com] - Worldwide VJ Community, Loopserver, Resources, etc.

[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://lecollagiste.over-blog.com/ LeCollagiste VJ] - French VJ blog

[http://www.vjloops.tv VJ LOOPS.TV] - Commercial Resource for Royalty Free VJ Loops

[http://www.vjspain.com VJ Spain] - Spanish VJ Community

[http://www.resident-alien.co.uk Resident Alien] - Commercial Resource for Royalty Free Video Loops

[http://www.vjcentral.it VJCentral.it ] - Italian VJ s Site

== 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.aspA_PROD_NO=KPE1 Korg KPE1 Entrancer]

[http://www.pioneer.co.jp/cdj/dvj/ Pioneer DVJ-X1]

[http://www.xynth.net XYNth V1] Hypervisual Synthesizer - 2D/3D/AVI

== VJ software ==

Cross-platform:

[http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html Isadora] Node-Based Visuals Creation

[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.flxer.net FLxER] Freeware - Mac/Win/Linux Flash Video Mixer

[http://www.robotfunk.com/flowmotion/ Flowmotion] - Mac/Win32 Video Mixing/Effects

LiVES - Open Source Linux/Unix Video Editor and VJ tool

FreeJ - Open Source Mac/Linux scriptable and remotely controlled vision mixer

[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.

[http://www.flashmixer.de Flashmixer] Freeware - Based on the Fileformat SWF (Shockwave Flash) Win/Mac/Linux

[http://www.digitalstage.net/en/ Motion Dive] -Mac/Win32

[http://www.neuromixer.com/ Neuromixer Pro] - Mac/Win32 Video Mixing

[http://www.corebounce.org/wiki/Mainfloor/Soundium2/ Soundium] - Live Visual Performance Platform

*API

[http://vsxu.com/ Vovoid VSX Ultra Developer] Open Source parameter-based API supporting bitmap & mesh creation, maths, rendering modules. Using [http://www.bloodshed.net/ DevC++] for development (free). Source code included for most modules.

[http://www.gephex.org/ GePhex] - Linux/Win32 Open Source

[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://firefly.bounceme.net/firefly/ Firefly] Firefly visual performance environment

[http://vsxu.com/ Vovoid VSX Ultra] Free visualization toolkit

[http://www.mxwendler.net/ 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

[http://TextMachine3D.com TextMachine 3D] Text Rendering, Dictionaries, User Input and Counters

Macintosh

[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

[http://www.quartonian.net Quartonian] Creative commons licensed VJ mixer created in Quartz Composer

*Linux

[http://effectv.sourceforge.net EffecTV] - Open Source

[http://veejay.sourceforge.net/ Veejay] - Open Source

[http://delcorp.org/delvj/index.php/Portada DELvj] - Open Source

== VJ labels ==

[http://www.vidauxs.net/ www.vidauxs.net] Vidauxs is a project, a space, a network, an indipendent netlabel

[http://www.addictive.com/ www.addictive.com] Addictive TV VJ/DVD label

[http://www.eye-con.tv www.eye-con.tv] EYE|CON Austrian VJ Label

[http://www.eyetrap.net eyetrap.net] Eyetrap German VJ Network

[http://www.lightrhythmvisuals.com www.lightrhythmvisuals.com] Lightrhythm Visuals

[http://www.ibizuales.com www.ibizuales.com] Ibizuales

[http://www.notv.com www.notv.com] NoTV Visual Music

[http://www.dandelion.org/source SOURCE - pure visuals] DVD series including VJ clips

[http://www.vjsputnik.com www.vjsputnik.com] SPuTNiK New York City VJ Label

[http://www.effekts.dk www.effekts.dk] Effekt

[http://www.impro.infini.fr/BUZZ.htm VJ BuzZ visuals] BuzZ

= 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.

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