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During an artist’s residency at WGBH-TV, Nam June Paik invented a new method of image production that created complex feedback, brilliant color, and nonstop mixing from multiple sources. The Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer allowed him to distort images and produce electronic disturbances that transformed the language, content, and geopolitics of television. This article highlights Paik’s transnationalism and the centrality of collaboration in his video projects.

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This article focuses on the early history of two related techniques used within artistic contexts: distorting preexisting television raster images and generating synthetic images through the application of external signals to cathode-ray tube deflection systems. Organology and media archaeological techniques are used to begin to trace an additional technical history of these complex visual instruments.

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The multidisciplinary artist duo LoVid have been making art that combines analog and digital media, as well as handmade and code-based methods, for nearly a quarter century. Topics discussed in this interview include image processing, generative art, Web3, and sociality in contemporary media art.