Flash VJing with FLxER
FLxER is an interactive, flash-based free-software for audio/video/multimedia contents mixing and live video performances. FLxER also represents a web-community with more than 11.000 users sharing their productions.
Description
The FLxER seminary consists of three parts.
During the first introductive part FLxER Creative Team presents the FLxER project: software, art-community and related artistic projects. The team then introduces the FlxER.net community, an important virtual space where live video artists are able to share their work creating live interactions among the 11.000 visual artists from all over the world joining the platform: an “art community” which makes FLxER an on-line archive updated with more than 4.000 videos, animations, sounds and concepts.
In the second part of the workshop the FLxER Team performs a show-case performance where every action of each performer is explained in real-time giving a full overview of the software’s features.
The third and last part of the seminary is focused on the production of multimedia contents and video libraries for live video performances with Adobe Flash. Through individual exercises participants acquire the technical know-how about the creation of footage using the Flash environment: video signals’ capture, screen capture, photography techniques. Eventually participants learn how to organize their contents in ready-to-use libraries to import them in FLxER.
Goals
The main goal of the seminary is to give participants without a previous experience in Live Visuals Performances the required knowledge and skills to independently produce creative multimedia contents for Vjing and audiovisual performances using the FLxER environment.