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leon 57.6 - A Piano for Visuals: Affordances of Scan Processing Instruments
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leon 57.6 - Video as World Mandala: The Role of Nakajima Kō’s Animaker and Aniputer in Defining a Cosmic Vision of Video
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leon 57.6 - Deliberate Maladjustment by Microorganisms: A Medium for Images or Luminous Bacteria
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leon 57.6 - (Nip)ulations: The Nipulator Electronic Bra and the Embodiment of the Image Processing Tool
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leon 57.6 - As Freely as Picasso: Nam June Paik, WGBH-TV, and the Video Synthesizer
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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.
leon 57.6 - The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
leon 57.6 - Our Bodies Demand Their Turn!: Live Synthesizer in Shigeko Kubota’s Riverrun—Video Water Poem
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leon 57.6 - Archaeologies and Organologies: Toward an Alternative History of Early Synthetic Video and Image Processing Practices, 1939–1969
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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.