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Gem 0.93.0 released

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:41:43 +0000

Frédéric Voisin | somGemPd | 2005

I’m quite excited about this new release of Gem, one of the most used video library for Pure Data aka Pd.
Check the highlights below to get a glimpse of new features and fixed issues.
Follows the original message from Gem mantainer IOhannes Zmoelnig:

“After long years of waiting (foir you) and hard labour (for me), Gem 0.93 has been released today.
large parts of the underlying engine have been re-written to give you a better experience!
binaries are available for w32 (installer & zip), for the brave and adventurous there is the source code.
binaries for OSX and not available yet, but we hope to get them online soonish.

grab it while it’s hot: http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.93.0

alternatively you can get the files from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem

highlights
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Objects
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frei0r video plugins support

- [mesh], [surface3d],…
- [separator] now takes arguments to define which stacks to push/pop

documentation
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- numerous bigfixes and improvements

extra
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- [pix_fiducialtrack] is no more part of Gem (but comes bundled with Gem)
- [pix_artoolkit] fiducial tracking using ARToolKit
- [pix_drum], [pix_mano]: Jaime Olivier’s analysis objects!

plugins
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image acquisition is now factored out into “plugins” this means that you can e.g. easily add new image acquisition methods to the existing [pix_video], [pix_film] and [pix_image] objects

- still image loading/saving now uses plugins on all platforms on w32 you can now use ImageMagick and/or QuickTime for loading/saving images, which greatly increases the number of supported formats. you now get programmatic feedback on image loading success…
- video acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms uniform way to get or set properties/attributes/controls, like hue, saturation, shutter-speed, pan,… working DV support (on linux)
V4L also works with newer kernels (that dropped v4l)
support for IIDC
support for industrial grade GigE cameras using 3rd party libraries such as PYLON, Halcon or AVT’s PvAPI experimental UNICAP support
- film acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms (you could use gmerlin on w32 or osx…)
- recording (film output) now uses plugins on all platforms support for V4L2 (and V4L) loopback devices, in order to generate a fake live video from your Gem window – use it for recording, streaming,…

settings
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global & local settings files to modify the overall behaviour of Gem you don’t like Gem’s default framerate, windowsize, font, texture mode,…? change it once and for all

internals
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- API: this is the first Gem with a “public” API: a selection of headers that you can use to write your own Gem-plugins build-system
- build system: completely switched to a proper autotools
- openGL: updated bundled GLEW
- source organization: re-organized the entire source tree for hopefully better maintainability

lowlights
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i need an OSX developer willing to spend some time in getting image acquisition and windowing to work on OSX>=10.6 (x86_64)”

Live Performers Meeting 2010, Rome

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:13:30 +0000

LPM 2010 – LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING
LIVE VIDEO PERFORMERS, VISUAL ARTISTS AND VJ MEETING
27 28 29 30 May – Rome

LPM – Live Performers Meeting: international meeting of live video performers, visual artists and vjs is back with a new 8th edition.

Rome 2009 edition, registered the presence of 362 artists from Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Uruguay, Latvia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Turkey. During four days, 289 performances, workshops and showcases gave life to the 900 square meters of Brancaleone, setup with 15 projectors and screens.

For the second consecutive year, LPM takes place in an exclusive location, the long-standing Brancaleone that with its structure, perfectly fit the growing needs of a meeting which year after year has definitely broadened its range of contents, artists and audience.

The new edition is coming soon, and we only miss your contribution!

For the LPM 2010 themes, along with further background infos, check the ‘concept’ page on the LPM homepage:

http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2010/en/concept/

LPM 2010 maintains the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the very first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of informations and ideas, experimentation is one of the founding elements of its ideology. LPM is a non-profit organization, every gained fund is invested back to support the research and development of the live visual field.

Subscription to join LPM is FREE and is open since now until the 10th of April, 2010. For further details about subscription, check the “participate” webpage:

http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2010/en/participate/

Please check out the LPM website for further informations about this edition and to surf through the archive of previous editions: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net

The LPM team is ready to answer your questions, and hope you can come to Rome and contribute: its going to be the best edition ever!

LPM is produced by Flyer Communication www.flyer.it, organized by www.flxer.net, www.linux-club.org, and FLV http://livevisuals.flyer.it, thanks to the corporation of our international partners.

LPM-Live Performers Meeting

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:53:37 +0000

LIVE VIDEO PERFORMERS, VISUAL ARTISTS AND VJ MEETING
29 30 31 may + 01 june – Roma

LPM – Live Performers Meeting: international meeting of live audio/video performers, visual artists and vjs is back with a new (fifth) edition.
From the 29th of may to the 1th of june 2008, in the padiglione 9C of the Ex Mattatoio of Testaccio in Rome, there will be workshops, showcases and live-video performances, but most of all, a space created to explore the artform and connect the practitioners making it happen.

The 2007 edition had 295 artists registered from the following countries: France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Poland, United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Argentina, Portugal, Mexico, Macedonia, Israel, Lithuania, Australia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Algeria. 26000 visitors during the 4 days of the meeting and the preview at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
For the themes of this year, along with some more background, check the concept page on the LPM website: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2008/concept/

LPM 2008 maintains the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of information and ideas and experimentation is one of the founding elements of its ideology. LPM is a non-profit organisation where any gained funds are invested back to support the research and development of the live visual field.

Please check out the LPM website for more information on this edition and an archive of previous editions: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
The LPM team is here to answer your questions, and hope you can come and contribute to this edition: its going to be the best yet!

LPM is produced by Flyer Communication (www.flyer.it), organized by
FLxER.net (www.FLxER.net), with thanks to the cooperation of our
international partners.

Ciao
Gianluca, Nikky, Dony, Paki, Sad

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LPM – Live Performers Meeting
Tel.+39 06 78147301 – Fax +39 06 78390805
BIZ – www.flyer.it – flyer@flyer.it
LAB – www.shockart.net / www.flxer.net / www.liveperformersmeeting.net/ wam.flyer.it

Report Vision’r Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:40:32 +0000

Great times in Paris for Vision’r Festival Vj – http://www.vision-r.org/.
The festival had different locations around Paris: La Generale Manifacture in Sevres (where i performed I C::ntr::l Nature see pictures below), Le Yono in Paris, and the amazing structure Mains d’Oeuvres in Saint Ouen: a polifunctional 4 floors building, with two big main hall (where the most of the audio/video projects has been shown), a huge community hall (where to eat, drink and chat) , several rooms for workshops and an amazing cinema hall, where i tested one of the best spacial acoustic in Europe (i performed there toghether with G-mO the audio/video project Shut Down G8).

Many artists took part in the festival this year and obviously i hadn’t the time to see every performance. Among all projects i found really interesting and professional Juste Alice 02 (http://www.myspace.com/a_li_ce) a original and deep reinterpretation of the fabulous charachter created by Lewis Carrol, Strap on Dildos (http://vjemtv.net/strap_on_dildos) powerful and ironic performance about feminism and queer culture, Hyperspace (http://hyperespace.yroyto.com) synthethic hyperdigital 3 screens performance.
On Saturday in Salon Pro we (as FLxER Team) had a stand where we presented the upcoming LPM 5th Edition, toghether with Codanova, Vixid, Vjamm and Edirol.

A great aspect of the festival was the presence of international artists such as Elsa Vieira and Brendan Byrne (http://vjtheory.net), Toby Spark (Avit UK) that toghether with us from FLxER Team and Neologos from Vision’r (and of course other people, unfortunately i can’t mention everyone) are trying to create and support a worldwide network focused on vjing and audio/video live performances. We had really constructive conversations, so we had the chance to share. This is the best we could ask.

Thanks to all Vision’r staff (Neologos, 10Tordu and all the others). Here you are some pics from these 4 days festival. You can find all the pictures in my gallery, click here (picture courtesy of Yroyto, LeCollagiste).

Vision’r Festival VJ

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:07:09 +0000

Just leaving for Paris!… can’t wait.

17th April 2008 – Vision’r Opening event:

The !S.A.D! – I C::ntr::l Nature
The Noiser – Nanofamas
AudeRoseLavy& Emotype
Sound Barrier

Venue:
Pixel Transversaux, Générale en Manufacture
6 Grande Rue, 92310 Sèvres

Links:
http://lepoletransversal.blogspot.com
http://vision-r.org

Vision’r Festival is a cutting edge festival in France focused on Audio/Video live performances and vjing. It will take place from 17th to 20th April in Paris, in three different locations. Check Vision’r website for full programmation, location and more infos…
You can’t miss it!