Video design

[2] Filmmaking and video production content has been used in performance for many years,[3] as has large format slide projection delivered by systems such as the PANI projector.

[4] The German Erwin Piscator, as stage director at the Berlin Volksbühne in the 1920s, made extensive use of film projected onto his sets.

[5] However, the development of digital projection technology in the mid 90s, and the resulting drop in price, made it more attractive and practical to live performance producers, directors and scenic designers.

In the USA, a number of programs started at about the same time reflecting the growing acceptance of the profession and the need for skilled projection designers.

Yale University began a graduate level program in Projection Design in 2010.,[8] It's being headed by Wendall K. Harrington.

This is a very wide skills base, and it is not uncommon for a video designer to work with associates or assistants who can take responsibility for certain areas.

In 1982, Devo integrated rear-projected visuals into their concert set, choreographing themselves to match and interact with the action on the video for several songs, but the concert that made video content 'standard practice' was the 1993 U2's Zoo TV Tour, conceived and designed by production designer Willie Williams, a collaborator of Laurie Anderson's.