This week’s reading by Gabriel Menotti delves further into the theory behind VJing by looking at the history and evolution of audiovisual performance. Gabriel Menotti looks at the metamorphosis of cinema into the digital medium, and compares its implications with VJing’s precursors such as “cinemas of attractions” and traditional cinema. One thing that I noticed about Menotti is his disappointment with the traditional cinema’s stiffening and prevention of digital cinema’s true potential. This potential is what Menotti’s whole arguments is mainly about, which is that traditional cinema seeks to force the audience into a frame, while VJing and digital cinema allows the audience freedom to interact and find their own narrative. Ultimately, Menotti is defining the projection specialist as a old, ridged model of cinema and the projection designer as a new, almost performer-like, free model of cinema.
As for the Rutt-Etra Synthesizer, it took a while to get it working, but I was able to get it to run with a properly formatted video. Whatever the case, this patch is amazing and it definitely creates some amazing images that could be used for other designs. Personally, I liked this tool. I’m still trying to get it to work with other examples, but the one I got to work so far is a with a video of machinery. I would like to find a video that doesn’t have too many black spaces for a later test, but so far this is a great patch.
-Nathan D
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