beta version of the programming which was eventually released as Max/MSP/Jitter. Ostertag and Hebert created a novel method to combine painting and drawing, stop-motion animation, and real-time digital video processing into a live performance during which an animated "film" was projected as it was created. Similar techniques are now used by a number of video artists and VJs. Living Cinema toured extensively for many years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. A Living Cinema DVD was released on John Zorn' Tzadik label in 2004. Ostertag has maintained an interest in electronic instruments throughout his career, leading to a close lifelong friendship with synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla, who was designing a new instrument for Ostertag when he died in 2016. In addition to Buchla and Serge synthesizers, Ostertag has worked extensively with the Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler and the virtual synthesizer Aalto. He has also created numerous software instruments of his own using Max/MSP. The many recordings which highlight these instruments include Bob Ostertag Plays the Serge 1978-1983, Motormouth: Bob Ostertag plays the Buchla 200e, Bob Ostertag Plays the Aalto, Like a Melody, No Bitterness (using the Ensoniq ASR-10). and DJ of the Month (using Ostertag's own software instrument), and many more. In 2011, Ostertag released a collaborative EP released on underground techno label Sandwell District with artist Rrose. Her interpretation of Ostertag's work was well received by critics, which led to another collaborative EP, released during the summer of 2012, entitled "The Surgeon General." Writing Ostertag’s first book was the anonymously published The Yes Men: The True Story of the End of the World Trade Organization (2004). In 2006 he published a history of radical journalism in the US, People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements. In 2009 he published a semi-autobiographical collection of essays on music, politics, and technology, Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines. In 2012 he co-authored Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell), My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement. with Jane McAlevey. The book was named "the most valuable book of 2012" by The Nation magazine. In 2016, he published Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity. In 2020, at the peak of the Covid pandemic, he published A Home Yoga Companion: How to Safely Develop Your Own Yoga Practice While Stuck at Home During a Global Pandemic. The book was published as a free e-book by PM