Live Experimental Video

Welcome to the Live Experimental Video mailing list, otherwise known as the LEV List. This is an email discussion list for anyone who is interested in experimenting with video. There are currently over 900 artists, composers, engineers, and programmers from around the world subscribed to the LEV list providing a unique forum for collaborative discussions. The LEV list was started in November of 1998, and has continued to grow in scope and ideas, maintaining a wide open forum for all subscribers to ask questions, give opinions, and participate in a global exchange of ideas concerning experimental video practices. Feel free to join in the discussion.

Core Issues
  • Improvisation with video and live performance issues
  • Video processing, performance, and interaction via the Internet
  • Alternative performance controllers for interactivity
  • Sensors and environmental controllers
  • Interactivity within the context of performance pieces and installations
Software Applications
  • Mark Coniglio's Isadora video processing software
  • Steim's Image/ine video processing software
  • AntiOrp's Nato 242+55 video processing objects for Max
  • Cycling 74's Max/MSP
  • Custom software for DVD authoring and control
Computer Issues
  • Computer programming and networking for video applications
  • Computer video hardware: video cards, laptops, DV cameras, DVD burners, DVD players etc . .
  • Video hardware: DVD players, wireless video transmitters, micro video cameras, projectors, etc . .