Jeff Mission and Chris Korda performing live with the visual software tools WiiWhorld and Fractice. Fractice is used to create the background layer, while WiiWhorld is being controlled in the foreground – the two layers were lumakeyed together with an Edirol V4 video mixer.

Excerpt from a live DJ set by Jeff Mission. GREEN is a weekly radio broadcast on WZBC 90.3 FM, hosted by Shwilly B and Jeff Mission, broadcasting throughout the greater Boston area every Monday night from 10pm-2am (EST). The video here was recorded using the Third Eye, a custom-built VJ camera worn on the center of the forehead, giving an accurate first-person perspective as Jeff Mission spins live on the air. Audio was captured live from the sound board. The result is a unique look inside the DJ process.

A live video feedback performance by VJ Jeff Mission. The smooth, colorful waves in this piece were generated by chaining together two pieces of equipment – an Edirol V4 video mixer, and a JVC JX-C7 Video Corrector – in a continuous loop, then making incremental adjustments to the settings on the JX-C7. The result is a digital organism, composed of pure feedback, that can be manipulated at will. The technique used in this piece is one of the core components of my live performances.

This piece was performed live as part of a visual jam session held at Beatfix Studios, Boston, MA. A combination of organic motion and digital technology, ‘Timbale’ is a new twist on a classic lightshow technique. By using an artists’ lightbox and overhead camera, hand movements are isolated and captured. The image is sent in real time to a video mixer and blended into a live feedback loop, where it creates echoes that ripple through the frame.

VJ Phi (Jen Rosselli) and VJ Mission perform live visuals at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge, MA, USA. The technique shown in this piece involves a lightbox, video camera, video mixer, and mesh fabric. Images of the mesh fabric being moved back and forth by hand over the lightbox are captured by the camera. The image is then sent to the video mixer, where a mirror effect is applied. The background is lumakeyed out and replaced with a second image, of live video feedback.

Party-goers create live video patterns with the WiiWhorld visual synth. The project, created by Chris Korda and Jeff Mission, combines the Nintendo Wiimote controller and the open-source geometric visualizer Whorld. Camera by Lydia Eccles. Music: “Rollah” by Rainbow Bright. Edited by Jeff Mission.

Late last year, while searching about for repair parts for an old Rutt-Etra V-synth, a team of visual archaeologists led by John “Oscillocam_TV” Koczera made a startling find. Deep in the bowels of Harvard University, within a basement office space, inside a rusty desk drawer, hidden beneath a pile of Heathkit catalogs, a time capsule from the 70’s was discovered. Scrawled across the exterior was a single word: “Groovy”. The capsule was cracked open to reveal 3 items – a lava lamp, a stick of incense, and a battered BetaMax cassette labeled “WiiWhorld Explained”.

After a painstaking digital restoration process, the contents of this cassette are being revealed to the public for the first time…