In June I’ll be performing with Joshua Churchill at Southern Exposure for the Extended Play series. In preparation for that I’ve carved out some time to rework my video performance system. The underlying architecture is pretty much the same as all the stuff I’ve done in the last year (optical-flow distortion feedback), but I’ve improved some aspects of the signal processing chain that make it possible to do some really amazing things with it besides the “live datamoshing” thing that I put together. The general idea for my performance is that I have a camera, a flashlight, and a controller, and I make video do different things by pointing it in my face and waving objects in front of it, moving the light around, while adjusting the controls of the processing system. Here’s a couple of test videos:

Another screen test, this time with 3D color LUT for realtime color-grading instead of the 1D LUT used before.

More live video tests. 1D color lookup table on the output.

More live video tests. Flash lights, knob-twisting, feedback.