I‘ve been considering this question; mainly because I’ve discovered a number of the vj sites out there like VJCentral.com and VJs.net and am beginning to see some names I recognise from the Quartz Composer dev lists and boards. It got me to thinking:- "if I‘m using ’VJ' tools to develop visuals, am I (or am I working towards being) a VJ?

VJ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “VJ or veejay (from Video Jockey, by analogy with disc jockey or DJ or ‘deejay’) is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music.” (NB: this reference has a load of really useful VJ links)

Interesting; the latter part of the wikipedia entry talks about video perfomance artists - now there's a title that appeals to me! I ask the question because much of what I see being produced by VJs seems to be fairly akin to music visualizers such as you would see in iTunes and the like, and that really holds no appeal to me. Not that what I have created thus far is much ‘deeper’ than that, but certainly I would hope that as I develop my skills I'm able to create work with a narrative element, so that in a live show you are getting something more akin to a music video - but LIVE!! We'll see!