I’m on the 5th and final day now of working and staying at the Experimental TV Center in Owego, a small town in New York State. It’s been a fairly frenzied period of production and I’m sure I could spend at least a fortnight here, actually I want to have this place as my studio (if it weren’t in the middle of nowhere). During the 5 day residencies, of which there are nearly 40 a year, artists stay in the studio which is equipped with everything you could possibly need except for a shower, but I’d trade a shower for a wobulator any day. The real draw is the video synthesizers of which I’m sure only a few remain and most of the ones that do are in private studios.
I came here with loads of work prepared to do but, as is inevitable, the work I planned didn’t work out but I’ve ended up doing a whole load of other work with all the equipment here. None of it is quite finished but here’s a few screenshots:
Origami/Sequencer Experiments
A setup with four cameras feeding into the Jones 8 Channel Video Sequencer (a device that automatically switches between video signals) and a tray full of folded paper. The top image has been fed through the Jones 6 Channel Colorizer/Mixer but the bottom image id the raw output of the black and white CCTV cameras they have in the studio here. This may develop into a performance if I can find a way to sequence the video on the cheap, maybe some kind of wheel with contact points on it? Or the things they use for actual CCTV displays in shops, maybe it would be possible to rig one up to switch faster…
Lightning – Foil Films
The only work I had that came from all the origami I scanned… This uses images of metallic origami paper with the audio coming from the video source. It sounds like thunder and lightning. This particular shot uses a couple of DVD loops that go in and out of phase.
Color Phase Adjustments
Possibly a nice short from adjusting the colour phase of these pens. Note the american spelling of colour, it’s an NTSC thing…
Other stuff
All these screenshots are from the first 2 days – I’ve got 8 more tapes to capture yet. More when I get those tapes logged.
