Philosophical Tools: History of Video Instruments Artists & Toolmakers lecture presented during the Critical Flow Workshop Series curated by Marcos Serafim at the Photography, Video And Imaging - School of Art @ the University of Arizona, on May 9th, 2025.
- 0:00 – Introduction + Name June Paik: Opening up the black box and the need for artist built tools
- 04:43 - TV as a Creative Medium + Eric Siegel Colorizer
- 07:45 - Signal Flow sits outside the circuit | Demo of colorizers’ in Premiere Pro, Processing, & TouchDesigner
- 14:34 - NCET The National Center for Experiments in Television
- 16:15 - The Experimental Television Center
- 19:55 - Dave Jones and Peer Bode speak about the creation of the Frame Buffer
- 24:23 - Monica Duncan Hundred Hands
- 26:52 - ETC Resources for further research
- 28:09 - EVL Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago
- 37:37 - Interview with Dan Sandin & Distribution Religion
- 42:46 - Materiality of the Signal: Signal Flow as Alchemy
- 45:37 - Woody Vasulka & Steina: Histories of Scan Processing
- 56:58 - Woody on video as an object 01:01:57 - Violin Power - Steina
- 01:05:14 - Vasulka Toolmaking at the edge of Analog to Digital Conversion
- 01:08:55 - Jeffery Schier on new vocabularies embedded in the machine
- 01:14:37 - Pioneers of Electronic Art + Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback
- 01:17:37 - Signal Culture 01:20:19 - Philosophical Tools: TouchDesigner Tutorials & Tools for Experimental Media Arts
- 01:23:14 - Demonstration of Tools
- 01:44:08 - Fairlight CVI & Video Paint
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