signal culture
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New Language / New Knowledge
/ New Media (Part 03C)
Signal Culture
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Signal Culture Film makers, architects
tested the limits of formart movements rapidlywere then supplementnew perspectives
With the aid of electroas synthesisers, video tradio transmission and
and software a whole nof artists and art makin
These were known collmedia artists they playstructure and the signaelectronic media
Craig Baldwin (1999) Spectres of the Spectrum
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DeFanti, Tom/Morton, Phil/Sandin, Dan/Snyders, Bob
https:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYwFstm4bk
In 1973 Dan Sandin and developed the GRASS sy
The Graphics Symbiosis
This was developed for t
minicomputer PDP 11/45
Equipment Corporation (1972).
Ryralwas a live video/co
performance that they la
using synthesised image
live performance
RyralBob Snyder, Dan Sandin & Tom DeFan
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RyralBob Snyder, Dan Sandin & Tom DeFan
DeFanti, Tom/Morton, Phil/Sandin, Dan/Snyders, Bob
https:
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First demonstrated atVisualisation Event (EUniversity of Illinois, C
Music was processed EMU Synthesizer" by
Video footage of a datransformed into a bl2D image and separatbackground
Images are then overusing the GRASS (Gra
Symbiosis System)
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Rutt/Etra Scan ProcessorSteve Rutt and Bill Etra, 1973
Etra, Bill /Rutt, Steve: Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, 1973.
https://youtu.be/EZQiHuTbnes
Steve Rutt and Bill Etrthe Scan Processor
This enabled video imconverted rasterizedforms and then manip
The signals are modificontrolling the voltagehorizontal and vertical
An analogue system, tused conventional knothe effect
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Etra, Bill /Rutt, Steve: Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, 1973.
https://youtu.be/EZQiHuTbnes
This process is known video raster manipula
It can be used with liverecorded black and whand are processed in r
The system was refinecommercially available
This video synthesizer many video artists incJune Paik and Gary Hi
Rutt/Etra Scan ProcessorSteve Rutt and Bill Etra, 1973
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Digital Image ArticulatorSteina & Woody Vasulka, 1974
Woody Vasulka (1980) Artifacts
Created the Digital Imagwhich was a software im
Like Sandin and DeFantiWoody Vasulka developeusing a version for the Pcomputer
The system could controelements of the image aunusual colour and box-effects
Here we have a meshingconstruction and softwacomputer aided image m
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Noisefields
Steina & Woody Vasulka, 1974
Woody Vasulka (1974) Noisefields
As demonstrated by theNoisefields, the signal itsmanipulated
Rather than the shape bobjects a circular framefrom two video signals
Here the video signal is create contrasting colou
Vasulkas work is greatlythe video vocabulary esRutt/Etra Scan Processo
Yet it is also very evocati
field experiments of Ken
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Signal Capture,Stephan Tillmans, Berlin
Stephan Tillmans (2011) No. 06 / No. 04 / no. 07 (StephanTillmans.com)
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Signal CaptureBruno Levy, NY
Bruno Levy (2013)ALUMINUM series Bruno Levy (2013) POLYVINYLIDEN
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Signal DesignScott Draves, NYC
Scott Draves (1999 - ongoing) Electric Sheep (see:
http://scottdraves.com/sheep.html)
Evocative of Sandin and Devideo performances of the
Electric Sheep is a form of asoftware that imitates the phenomena of evolution athough mathematics.
Born and bred on the netwthousands of computers, Ea signal bending networkepiece.
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Scott Draves (1999 - ongoing) Electric Sheep
(see: http://scottdraves.com/sheep.html)
Signal DesignScott Draves, NYC
This is a distributed system, w
participating computers work
form a supercomputer that re
animations, called "sheep", th
sees.
The human participants guide
the fittest by voting for their f
animations in the flock.
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Scott Draves (2008) Dreams in High Fidelity
(see: http://scottdraves.com/hifidreams.html)
Dreams in High Fidelooping animation c
high-resolution clips
a decade of networ
by tens of thousand
on the Electric Shee
system.
Dreams in High Fide
on a self-contained
database of 100 gig
in 1000 pieces that
nonrepeating seque
Signal DesignScott Draves, NYC
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Scott Draves (2008) Dreams in High Fidelity (see: http://scottdraves.com/hifidream
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Signal StructureMartin Hilpoltsteiner, Wuerzburg, Ge
Martin Hilpoltsteiner (2008) Echo Flow Software Interface & Linear stereo filter (See: video)
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Martin Hilpoltsteiner (2008) Echo Flow Audio frequency filter & Slitscan filter (See: video)
Signal StructureMartin Hilpoltsteiner, Wuerzburg, Ge
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Nam June Paik
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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (1965)
Magnet TV
Nam June Paik &
Charlotte Moorman (1971)
Concerto for TV
Nam June Paik - 108 Torments of Mank
N J P ik
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Nam June PaikElectronic Opera #01 (1969)
Nam June Paik (1969) Electronic Opera #01
For the program, Medium is thbroadcaster WGBH-TV in Bostovisual artists to create original
These works challenged the paTV medium
Paiks contribution featured: Staged choreography Distorted images of public f
Richard Nixon Voice over instructions: T
TV and Turn off your TV s
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Nam June PaikElectronic Opera #01 (1969)
Nam June Paik (1969) Electronic Opera #01
One of the key effects howevof magnets to manipulate th
This created what seemed lik
transformations of three gre
eight loops laying on or abov
The figure-eight loops were t
direct processing of the elec
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Nam June PaikGlobal Groove (1973)
Nam June Paik (1973) Global Groove
An extension of the signal disto
techniques from the Electronic
A much longer piece featuring o
and Fluxus artists such as John C
Heavily synthesised images and
overlays of physical performanc
This is intercut with excerpts fro
and Paiks own back-catalogue
This is media performance with
performance of the TV signal
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Paiks introductory statement set the tone:This is a glimpse of a video landscape of tomorrow wheable to switch on any TV station on the earth and TV guid
fat as the Manhattan telephone book.
This is the spirit of Marshall McLuhan's global village mown concept of channel zapping:
'If we could compile a weekly TV festival made up of musfrom every county, and distributed it free-of-charge roun
via the proposed common video market, it would have a effect on education and entertainment.'
(Media Art Net, http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/global-g
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In an ironic form of interactive television, Paik pre
"Participation TV," in which he instructs viewers to op
their eyes. Paik subjects this transcultural, intertextual
an exuberant, stream-of-consciousness onslaught of
editing and technological devices, including audio a
synthesis, colorization, ironic juxtapositions, tempora
layering a controlled chaos that suggests a hallucina
through the channels of a global TV. With its postmodeform and conceptual strategies, Global Groove stands a
statement on video, television and contemporar
(Electronic Arts Intermix, http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=32
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Nam June PaikGood Morning Mr Orwell (1984
Nam June Paik (1984) Good Morning Mr Orwell
Paik explores the potential of satellmedium of art making
Broadcast on New Years Day 1984,
familiar mix of sound performance,
text, choreography and live video o
effects.
Signal was mixed from the public br
TV in New York, the Pompidou Cen
broadcasters in Germany and South
Artists featured were John Cage, Ph
Anderson, Peter Gabriel and Allen G
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Following his move to the US, Paikfascinated by the laser as an untapresource.
Here we see Paik taking the imagethe television to create a mediaenvironment.
In the late 1990s, Paik began workNorman Ballard, an American laseLaser Cone is a product of this unicreative collaboration.
Nam June PaikLaser Cone (1998-2001)
Nam June Paik
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Nam June Paik
Laser Cone (1998-2001)
Nam June Paik & Norman Ballard (1998 & 2001-11) Laser Cone
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Laser Cone reflects Paik's interest in both the nat
technology, which he believed were intimat
connected. It is a work of beauty, but also a math
scientific experiment with laser lights projected acone surface that creates precise patterns and
depending upon angles and tangents of light on
surface. Paik was using a wheel chair when Lase
was created, and so the installation was conceiveaccessible experience.
(Fact Liverpool, http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/nam-june-paik/la
cone.aspx and https://youtu.be/cky1Eu1s9GE)
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Appropriating the Signa
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Here Come the Videofreex
CBS & Videofreex, 1969
CBS / (1969/2015) Here Come the Videofreex
Group of people from a varietwith a common interest in theof personal video recorders (P
Hired by CBS to go undergroinsight into what was happenioutside of the mainstream ne
Filmed Abbie Hoffman and thmovement
Moved to the Catskills and setv station, Chanel 3 Lanesville
Became a model for future putelevision and later internet b
h d f
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Here Come the Videofreex
CBS, 1969
CBS / (1969/2015) Here Come the Videofreex
http://videofreexfilm.com/film-summary/
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Appropriating the Signal
Dara Birnbaum , 1978/79
Dara Birnbaum (1979) Kiss The Girls Make Them Cry
Video & installation artist
Appropriated television prog
Wonder Woman, game show
sporting events
Critiquing the role of televisi
portrayals of gender and therepresentation iof the broad
mainstream American TV pr
Birnbaum uses disruptive ed
techniques, signal overlay, t
layer her compositions
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Commercial Entertainment Pro
Electronic Broadcast Network, 1
A collective of artist/technologists w
the Rhode Island School of Design
One of their members went to on to
that developed the After Effects soft
EBN remixed the Gulf War in 1991 a
fought
Called We Will Rock You the remix b
first viral videos on the web
EBN featured on the very first Lollap
Employed by U2 to provide the live v
their ZooTv tour in 1992/93
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Behaviour Modification - We Will Ro
Electronic Broadcast Network, 19
EBN (1991) Behaviour Modification - We Will Rock You
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EBN (1993) Numb Remix
Numb Remix
Electronic Broadcast Network, 19
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Craig Baldwin (1999) Spectres of the Spectrum
Spectres of the Spectrum
Craig Baldwin, 1999
Video artist, underground
media archaeologist and c
He uses pirated footage to
conventional documentar
Films critique consumeris
of copyright and intellectu His film Sonic Outlaws wa
defence of the group Nega
the time were being sued
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Craig Baldwin (1999) Spectres of the Spectrum
Spectres of the Spectrum
Craig Baldwin, 1999
Spectres of the Spectrum is constcompletely of kinescopes - 16mmtelevision broadcasts:
Threatened by the 'New Electromyoung telepathic woman helps se
save the planet from a futuristic wbased on the real life HAARP - HigActive Auroral Research Program,research component of the Star Warsenal. - V2 Media (Netherlands
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Craig Baldwin (1999) Spectres of the Spectrum
Spectres of the Spectrum
Craig Baldwin, 1999
Homage to the Signal
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Homage to the SignalEclectic Method, 2012
Eclectic Method (2012) Lasers
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Signal Distortion
and Manipulation
Signal Distortion
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Signal DistortionChris Cunningham, UK
Chris Cunningham & Aphex Twin (1997) Come To Daddy
Information Apocalypse seri
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Michael Najjar (2003) Out of Focus I & II (michaelnajjar.com)
p ypMichael Najjar, Germany/USA
Information Apocalypse seri
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Michael Najjar (2003) Permanent Erosion (michaelnajjar.com)
p ypMichael Najjar, Germany/USA
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Signal Interpolation
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g pNabil Elderkin, Aus/LA
Nabil Elderkin & Kanye West (2009) Welcome To Heartbreak ft. Kid Cudi
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Signal Manipulation
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Mitch Goodwin (2011) Glitchaclysm (mitchgoodwin.com)
g pMitch Goodwin, Aus