37 Synthesized Patterns (2010)

"A demonstration of the LZX Visionary modular video synthesizer used for direct synthesis techniques, meaning that no external image was used in the creation of these clips -- with the exception of a couple, which use a feedback camera to introduce extra modulation. Modules used include the basic system of 8 modules, including three Video Waveform Generator signal sources. A variety of techniques are used including oscillator frequency and waveshape modulation, keying, voltage controlled mixing, signal summing and absolute mode summing. No post-processing or manipulation has been added. Audio from the track Omniverse by S U R V I V E."

SOLAR CAROUSEL (2010)

"Reimagined moments from Logan's Run (1976) by filmmaker and electronics designer Lars Larsen. This experiment uses an adaptation of the Function Generator circuit from the Sandin Image Processor, and the LZX Visionary modular video synthesizer to add additional keying and blending. Audio is processed through a Cat Girl Synth Wave Multiplier module, which is a similar circuit to the Sandin Image Processor's Function Generator. So in effect, similar processing techniques are implemented simultaneously to both video and audio, which are controlled by a single CV source."

DUNCAN MALASHOCK

Magic Square (2009)



Temple (2009)

OK TO GO (2008)

"Chain of Hyper Space scenes from films (a collaboration with Mike Merrill).

Part of the thing which is so appealing about Hyper Space scenes in films is the idea that something fantastic and unknown lies at the end of them. In fact, here are the primary uses of Warp Speed/ Hyper Space as plot device:
A) Tunnel to unknown.
B) Escape from danger via total oblivion.

Both represent a kind of inversion, or temporary lifting, of the accepted order."

by Claire L. Evans and Mike Merrill

via Rhizome

CURATORIAL MOMENT

check out my list of "top five video visionaries"
over at the silver lining

WEE SEE

As a dad of a wee one, I approve of this stimuli:

"A gentle introduction to our visual world

Part art installation, part pacifier, Wee See is a collection of black-and-white animations built from basic shapes to delight both child and parent. As vision develops slowly over the first months of life, Wee See provides surfaces of bold, well-defined artwork to engage your baby’s curious mind and bring the screen to vibrant life.

With great sensitivity to the delicate nature of the audience, Wee See’s animations move methodically slow and maintain an extraordinary simplicity yet remain endlessly inventive."

Collection One:

wee see - collection one from Rolyn Barthelman on Vimeo.

Collection Two:

wee see - collection two from Rolyn Barthelman on Vimeo.

via stork bites man, via daddytypes

TUXEDOMOON - NEW MACHINE (1977)

from the early collection of performance and video art experiments Colorado Suite from 1977

while these early sounds bear almost no resemblance to the sprawling winston tong led masterpieces created just two years later, they're still pretty rad...

ELECTRONIC MOON NO 2 (1969)

Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut
1966-72, 1992, 4:52 min, color, sound

description from electronic arts intermix
note: not sure why youtube video mentions bill viola... anyone have some insight?

DOCUMENTATION OF EVE II (1976)

"The Second Electronic Visualization Event took place at The University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus in 1976. This documentation features Bob Snyder on EMU Synthesizer, Phil Morton on the Sandin Image Processor by Dan Sandin and Guenther Tetz on the GRASS (GRaphics Symbiosis System) by Tom DeFanti. In Morton's words these artists perform live realtime audio and video synthesis "using both analog and digital computers as 'visual instruments'..." Other artists credited with participation in the Electronic Visualization Events between 1975 and 1978 include Drew Browning, Larry Cuba, Barbara Latham, John Manning, Faramarz Rahbar, Ed Rankus, Michael Sterling, Barbara Sykes and Jane Veeder."

CHALAZAE (2005)

Samantha Krukowski
2005, 4min 48, color

"Eggs, shot on glass from below and above, are the primary image material for Chalazae. When I was eight, I called the chalazae the thingy. It is actually the anchor that holds down the yolk membrane and separates the yolk from the white of an egg. Throughout my childhood, I refused to eat any egg that had a thingy--my mother obliged me and removed the thingies of any egg she hoped to feed me. I was convinced the thingy (the chalazae) was a baby chicken, or at least the starting point for one. My mother took me to her biology lab a lot, and there were always eggs and chickens in various stages of development. I saw chicken embryos on yolks and thingies nearby. That was enough to empower the chalazae and invest in it a series of meanings and capacities that continue to be largely imagined. I am particularly interested in the cellular, cosmic and embryonic forms evoked in Chalazae."

excerpts from a talk given at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, 2003:

"The egg is a common alchemical symbol. The retort, the alchemists’ bulb-shaped vessel, was called the Philosopher’s egg. It was used for gentle distillation and cohobation and could be hermetically sealed, so that the various materials inside could incubate.
The egg was, more importantly, perceived as an image of the universe, the macrocosmos."

"A few months ago, I trained my video camera on some glass. I positioned my camera below the glass, and began to crack eggs onto it. Some of the eggs were frozen... Some of the yolks broke, some stayed intact. While working on the video, I recalled some writing by Simone de Beauvoir:
'With her fire going, woman becomes a sorceress; by a simple movement, as in beating eggs or through the magic of fire, she effects the transmutation of substances...'"

"Michael Maier’s, a German alchemist, wrote in his Scrutinium Chymicum of 1687: 'Learn about the egg and cut it with a flaming sword. In our world there is a bird more sublime than all others. To search for his egg be thy only concern. The egg of alchemy is a symbol for magical realization.'"

"There is something in these alchemical descriptions that parallels the process of embryogenesis, which metaphorically might be considered the birthplace of all works. The blastocyst is a universal subanimal formed by simple cell division, a volvox-like ball. Its organization is ancient, primary, and panspecific, affecting all eggs in much the same way. Regardless of their ultimate destiny, the component cells of a blastocyst first arrange themselves in a hive of sibling balls, a mold from which individual animals can be shaped. Blastulation is a cosmic event…it denotes the creation of primal matter—an ushering of one into many, unity into multiplicity, timelessness into time, inertia into mutability, information into form."

EXCERPTS VIA HERE

VIOLIN POWER (1970-1978)

Steina, Violin Power, 1978
by Video_Blog_REWF

Steina Vasulka
Videotape, 10 min, b&w

THURSDAY AFTERNOON (1984)

"I was delighted to find this other way of using video because at last here's video which draws from another source, which is painting .... I call them 'video paintings' because if you say to people 'I make videos', they think of Sting's new rock video or some really boring, grimy 'Video Art'. It's just a way of saying, 'I make videos that don't move very fast"



Brian Eno
1984, 61 min, color, sound

VIA UBUWEB

SPACE SONATA (1981)

Bulat Galeyev
with electronic music by Alexandr Nemtin & Stanialav Kreichi
1981, 8:59 min, color, sound

via Rhizome

PAUL BAKER ON VIMEO

Paul baker used to do the live visuals for my band OVEO as well as countless other Texas acts, most notably with the psych/dub collective Sub Oslo.

He has slowly accumulated quite the online portfolio. Here are a few gems:


ferb rise from vision system on Vimeo


Book of Shadows from vision system on Vimeo


Dubalicious from vision system on Vimeo

Paul currently lives in Austin TX and can be reached through his myspace page.

MARK BROWN

1992 from Mark Brown on Vimeo


Tatsumi Hijikata from Mark Brown on Vimeo


Growing // Innit from Mark Brown on Vimeo.

EVLTUBE

EVL (electronic visualization laboratory) has a youtube account!

check out these amazing early video art pieces:

COLORFUL COLORADO (1974)
Phil Morton



CALCULATED MOVEMENTS (1985)
Larry Cuba



PAINT PIECE (1983)
Mark McKernin



STRINGS AND VECTORS (1984)
Marilyn Wulff



SKIPPY PEANUT BUTTER JARS (1980)
Copper Giloth

CRYSTALSCULPTURE

I stumbled across the crystalsculpture2 youtube account a little while back when I was looking for early computer animations. I didn't know any information about it or the fact that there are three other crystalsculpture accounts on youtube.

I just scanned over rhyzome's highlights from 2008 post and thought to myself "this looks familiar" and... sure enough.

Enough background info. check these out for yourself: 1 2 3 4

SPIN (1995)

"...I [Brian Springer] chose 1992 as the year to monitor the satellite spectrum because of the national election; feeds are the easiest and cheapest way for the candidates and the networks to teleport their images across the vast landscape of a national election. George Bush began when he hired the former producer of ABC's "Nightline" to orchestrate his satellite re-election bid: Bush was beamed via satellite to many local TV stations to appear in "Nightline"-style interviews with the kinder and gentler local news anchors, and the other candidates followed suit. Larry King held court on satellite as the candidates made over 100 talk-show appearances (they made only 2 in 1988), and LA burned with hundreds of feeds as the networks spun the dissent. I'd trawl the spectrum, starting with the morning TV talk-shows at 6AM and end at midnight with "Nightline". I lost muscle-tone in my stomach, damaged the nerves in my thumb with the remote-control and felt only as good as my last image. The result of this viewing experiment is a one-hour video documentary called SPIN which uses feeds to unravel the election and the televised events which framed it, such as the L.A. riots, Colombus' 500th anniversary, and the struggle for reproductive and sexual rights. Spin captures the contempt for the public whispered by spin doctors, and the hallucinogenic collusion of the candidates, the press and the technology..."

this is a true case of life imitating art.