Luca Moroni here, living in Italy, I enjoy video exploration since a while, in the past years using software, and now because of my dayjob I want to stop using computer in my free time and I’m switching to analog synthesis.
You can find few stuff I did linked below
ThreeJS loops
https://esnho.github.io/threejs-loops/
Old (sigh) promo
Hi all! Excited to be here - this is a lovely forum and I can’t believe I’ve just discovered it.
I’m a theatre artist based in Glasgow who is moving more and more into video work. You can check out my website at robwpjones.com to get an idea of some of the stuff I’ve done in the past (although it’s still under construction with plenty more info to come)
I’m starting a live stream this week at twitch.tv/abbenay2300 - going to be using a 3TrinsRGB and some other equipment to manipulate the video signals from old video games - exploring strange spaces and making chilled dreamscapes. I’ll be live tuesday and thursday nights.
I’m also doing chilled project streams during the daytime on wednesdays. Tomorrow (30th Sept) I’m planning to start building a r_e_c_u_r video sampler out of an old raspberry Pi and a wooden box I found in a junk shop.
Would love to connect with other video folk. Hopefully see you on the stream!
I’m curious to hear how Twitch works for you. I settled on Youtube because it retains VODs indefinitely but Twitch seems to have generally higher quality and potentially more of a community so I’m not sure if I’d rather keep streaming to Youtube or go back to Twitch an then upload my local recordings to Youtube and maybe do occasional edited content on there down the road. I’ll try to tune in to yours tomorrow, I’ve been working from home lately so I can probably plan my work time so that I can watch you while I do it.
for quality twitch beats youtube 100 percent, you can download your streams and host them elsewhere afterwards
+1 for Twitch. The one thing I haven’t worked out with Twitch is an easy way to search for artists… mostly I just read the comments on the videos and check out the pages of the people who have commented, to see if they’re also posting videos. Something like the themed groups in Vimeo would be nice. The ‘raid’ concept is a fun idea though - when your stream is over you can basically send all your viewers/commenters across to another live channel.
Just ignore all the people streaming themselves playing computer games. Honestly I never understood why anyone would watch that 
there are a bunch of peoples twitch pages on here if you are looking for more people to follow https://stream.scanlines.xyz/
(you have to press “show twitch streams”)
Honestly I think I just have to avoid a lot of fast changing complex activity to get decent quality. I did some tests today and even the highest quality encode settings the old computer could handle (high profile, slow CPU preset, lowest keyframe interval OBS allows, bitrate of 3000 for a 480p encode - complete overkill) it still broke down into a mess of compression artifacts on the local recording as soon as things got too busy. In a week or two I’ll hopefully be able to start rescanning from CRT instead of patching straight to the capture card, and at that point I’ll probably move to 720p HDMI capture for the stream and do the local recording directly on the camera at 1080 to upload later. Maybe over the winter I’ll be able to get the money together to build a new PC to encode on. But I think in the end h264 just doesn’t handle strobing and fast changes unless you have I-frames on almost every frame, and that’s really not a good option for streaming even if OBS supported it.
So in light of that, I guess the main thing is which has a better community for this kind of stuff, and I have a feeling it’s Twitch.
My hope of video “community” for the future is that cool new forum over at scanlines.xyz - seems to be some really great people there 
LOL… most of the accounts listed there are the ones I contributed (on the FB Video Circuits thread)
Thanks all! I mostly plumped for twitch because of the sense of liveness and community. I think there are more and more live artists / comedians etc coming to the platform and it’s creating some really interesting pockets of experimental work but yeah sometimes it’s hard to find interesting things.
Hi, I’m Sean. I am sort of a “many hats”-type person. I earn money mostly doing graphic design, but that has mostly just been a money thing for a long time (or a part of other, more interesting projects rather than an end in itself). I also help run a space here in Los Angeles, Betalevel, where we host music, readings, screenings, lectures, festivals, competitions, karaoke, etc. It’s a basement off a back alley in Chinatown, and pretty much has that vibe. I sometimes do video projections at events there; I sometimes do recordings. I also, for ten years, led a weekly exploratory bike ride. So I am pretty interested in The City, and space & place, and have been on somewhat of a long journey to create an organization about that. Also do a fair amount of photography. And some writing. And some music. And some other stuff.
But as far as video, yeah, event projections, recording (incl. recently more live multi-cam mixing), have some documentary plans, but that will likely take a fair amount of time to implement; some hardware-based work (among other things, I’ve got an LZX system which I’m still figuring out exactly for what it is best used; have started a series of video portraits, a few of which I’ll post below), some software (Signal Culture stuff, Coge, Premiere, been learning a bit of Blender to do cheeseball 3D for a current project), etc.
I’ll end this long bio with the following footnote, which may be somewhat funny in this context: I went to a science high school and my concentration was actually in video technology. But I had almost zero tech interest at the time, so I just made funny videos with lots of luma keying and whatnot — and then, after leaving, forgot what little electronics I had learned (which was very little indeed) and didn’t make any videos for about 20 years. Oh well. The road not traveled and so forth . . .
Howdy from North Texas - name is Sean. Been poking around on video circuits on and off for a few years but only just started really diving in. I’m a prolific tinkerer, jotter, and gear queer, working within Electronics Manufacturing managing some Testing Services. Have an educational history in engineering and new media art. I’ve become thirsty for more technical insight into this world and am absolutely elated to find such an active and savvy group of folks - in forum format none-the-less!
I lean pretty heavily towards lurking, so I’ll be around.
Thanks for having. Thanks for being.
Edit: Two Sean’s don’t make a right?
Hi my Name is Paul and I live in germany (RheinMain Area)
i came here for info on the sync-ope and didn’t know about scanlines before. looks like a nice place
I sometimes do live video projections on techno parties using (mostly) modded home video equipment from the 90s. In the last years i kind of neglected the video thing though. (I got sucked into building diy music stuff instead)
II want to get back into glitch art some more and rebuilt my live setup (which kind of broke last year during a rave)
I am mostly interested in hardware. Recently I am warming up to the idea of video being done by a computer a bit since I learned how to use blender though.
I like that effect you’re getting with the vertical lines moving across the screen starting around 1:30.
thanks. the lines are mostly done with a modded panasonic ave5. + some feedback.
Hey everyone, I’m Kyle, also known klenkstar on insta. I am so psyched to be part of this focused community and to hopefully get away from the typical apps I find myself having an obsequious attachment to. I’ve always loved tinkering with electronics and had some kind of creative drive so I guess naturally obscure video experimentation is where I wind up. During the day I work in a soil and agronomic research lab. I don’t think anyone will but you can totally pick my brain about dirt! My journey into “new media” began a couple years ago with some crap iPhone app that let me do basic glitchy effects. Not too long after I came across a paper that described video feedback in detail and recognized it only as the crazy tunnel effect that happens when you point the camera at the tv. I didn’t realize there was any more to it than that, but the generative aspect of it had a profound impact on me. It wasn’t until Covid that I really started to go deep and came across projects like waaave pool and recur. Now my tiny living space is perpetually covered in a spaghetti mess of wires but I find it strangely comforting. I am totally fascinated by some of the things I see people in this weird niche doing and am so lucky to have stumbled across it. Thank you also to everyone putting hours and hours of their time into these projects to make these tools openly available and create educational communities like this. That is so good to see.
We’re Pixelflowers. We’re two - I mean, it’s one person writing (who has half a brain only) but we work as a duo, directed by Uniporn (pictured above). We’ve been here since May, but forgot to introduce ourselves 
We’re based in Berlin and we somehow belong to -or come from- the dancefloor: we started making visuals at techno parties, and since the pandemics we have been livestreaming our visuals every Wednesday and Friday (check one of those links to know more about our setup and workflow), collaborating with DJs, local techno parties and other music-related entities. We publish our work on the Internet Archive.
We’re very happy to be onboard here on Scanlines. We value a community for its human/social aspects first, rather than for its size/power or the resources it offers. Everything we’ve seen here up to now under these regards looks promising to us!
Hello I’m Ryan but most people call me Ghostdad. I caught the tail end of Vidicon this year and was happy to also find out about the Scanlines community.
I’ve spent the last 10 years or so creating and running live visuals for a variety of DJ’s, bands, rappers, and the occasional corporate activation. More of that here.
For that I spend most of my time in the box with Resolume et al. I started performing visuals for my own music projects by cutting up found footage with Jitter patches and the ol’ Korg entrancer.
I still keep a few CRT’s and pieces of hardware around for glitching things out when needed. I also made a gang of presets for Paracosm’s amazing Lumen software that might still be in there! Lately I’m spending a lot of time in the Unity game engine partially because of Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z. I’m also interested in 3D web based experiences. I keep a sort of mixed bag of creative projects here.
This year is unfortunately pretty gigless for me but I welcome new communities, resources, friends, collaborators, ideas. In general I’m looking to see what’s next. Vidicon was totally inspiring and I’m happy to be here. Thanks!
Hello all. I’m known in the computer world as Jungleist7.
I represented the graffiti world at the Dawn of the 3D mapping scene. I can proudly say I was definately “there”.
I’ve been into technology before CPU sounds and internet were even considered and just something you read about, so I can say that I learned to use computers before I could even crawl, LOL.
In my current touring rig I have experimental software and hardware and I have performed and prefer software. (Hello to my fans, thank you for your love & honesty).
I have been a VJ mainly for Musicians that have been touring DJ’s and releasing vinyl since the 90’s. The awkward thing about touring as a VJ is that the topic “Video Art” is interesting because meet people that do the same thing as us, but they only do performances for Venue owners and Grammy award artists. Think of any and every musician/performer that has been in the spotlight and won an Emmy Award or a Grammy award you meet people that only do exclusive content for them. I’m talking about people behind the scenes in their music video and people that have contributed to their Stage performance you know who I’m talking about. So this is a shoutout to you guys, thank you for your generosity and knowledge.
I dont have much to offer on this site, I see alot of talented people and people that I admire. You guys are awesome. Not just the talent I see on the introduction page but all you true tekkies out there! You get the props.
The onlything I can really say is that experimentation on stage is never easy, so if you don’t have the skill or technical knowledge to improvise, then your just left in the dust while performing. There are only a few of us here on Scanlines that “I KNOW” can pull that off. You guys know who you are.
Everything else regarding visual art has been said and done. So theres that too.
My expectations here are to learn some seriously nerdy crap, but mainly BS and have fun with you guys.
OK, now heres some images I have to upload because technology and the will of the movement said so…
Hi, I didn’t see this post before sorry to be late…
I arrive here last few days, invited by cyberboy666 to deal about dev of our associate project -Sync-Ope- .
I’m general digital/electronic artist, with too much centers of interest to list its ; and technical manager at computer music lab in university of Bordeaux (France). I began video circuit exploration coming from circuit bending world (lots of glitched 2 to 5 generation video games) then I put my finger in lzx stuff and analog video devices and the rest of my body and soul come with it (and substantial part of my purse too)… Glad to see one of the burning core of video wizards here! Gonna take my time to explore all the lore… Cheer’s!
