For me, I've never quite understood the role of a DJ. Like if I were at a club or a dance party, I wouldn't really notice the DJ. He's just in his own world doing his thing while everybody's dancing, but after watching some videos like the one to the left, they deserve a lot more credit for what they do and the difficulty of it. However, the DJ is already becoming a thing of the past. Now there are VJ's! Visual jockey, video jockey, video-jam? Whatever it's called, this new sensation is establishing its place quickly in today's society.
The art of VJ-ing seems very similar to DJ-ing. However, on the flip side, VJ-ing also seems to contain a much more poetic aspect than DJ-ing does. In those live sessions, creating sounds and images channeled through synthesizers can be very abstract, and as Peter Weibel and Gene Youngblood did, using multiple projections really makes VJ-ing stand out. It's just a lot more fascinating than DJ's because it contains a visual aspect. The more senses that it reaches out to, the more exciting it becomes. Additionally, with VJ's, I imagine audiences paying more attention to the visual projections in awe rather than the typical dance party scene for DJ's. But VJ-ing is definitely appropriate for the dance floor still as the article states. Adapting to the temperature of the dance floor by changing images and volume, I imagine, can really spice things up and add a really nice element to a party. It's this idea of immersion-- being taken to a whole new world through these visual projections. It gets me excited just thinking of the capabilities of this field.
Anyhow, I found this sweet video of a video projection on a building. If anyone is starting to enjoy the weather, this Christmas music should help that feeling.
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