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VASULKA VIDEO: PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC ART An overview of Steina & Woody Vasulka’s video processing tools. <\/p>\n VCS3 (The Putney)<\/strong> Video Sequencer (Field Flip\/Flop Switcher with Digital Control)<\/strong> Horizontal Drift Variable Clock<\/strong> Rutt\/Etra Scan Processor<\/strong> Multikeyer<\/strong> Programmer<\/strong> Digital Image Articulator<\/strong> VASULKA VIDEO: PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC ART 5\u20147 March 2004 London Candid Arts Trust & University of Westminster An overview of Steina & Woody Vasulka’s video processing tools. VCS3 (The Putney) Designers: Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and Dave Cockerell for Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Year of conception: 1969 The VCS3, named for “voltage-controlled studio,” is best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vasulka-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n5\u20147 March 2004
\n<\/strong>London Candid Arts Trust & University of Westminster<\/strong>
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\nDesigners: Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and Dave Cockerell for Electronic Music Studios (EMS)
\nYear of conception: 1969
\nThe VCS3, named for “voltage-controlled studio,” is best known by the name Putney in the United States. This analogue, duophonic synthesiser is equipped with a relatively small connection panel, compared to others of that time. It can control audio signals and their relationships to one another from the device itself. Integrated oscillators produce the repeated fluctuations of voltage that modulate the sounds. Conceived by atonal musical composers, the first version of the device did not have a keyboard.<\/p>\n
\ndesigner: George Brown
\nyear of design: 1972
\ntype of application: video
\nThis sequencer allows the programmer to separate two video sources in a determined sequence. It controls, among other things, the alternation of the points of view of two cameras in real time on the same monitor. The sequence is controlled according to various parameters: the rhythm of the regular sweeping of the screen, sound pulsation, etc.<\/p>\n
\nDesigner : George Brown and the Vasulkas
\nYear of conception: 1972
\nThe Horizontal Drift Variable Clock is not in itself an instrument, but rather an external source of synchronisation that can control the horizontal displacement of a video image. By adding an oscillator with the capacity to go up to 15,000 cycles to the portable camera adapter (Sony Portapak), it is possible to control the voltage of the horizontal synchronisation signal. Typically, two cameras make up the system: one camera is hooked up to the normal vertical and horizontal synchronisation signal, while the other camera, whose image is being superimposed or keyed on the first, receives a different horizontal frequency. This will then result in the horizontal movement of the image towards the right or the left. The Vasulkas also used this technique to cause images to travel from one monitor to another in multi-monitor compositions.<\/p>\n
\ndesigners: Steve Rutt, Bill Etra, Louise Etra
\nyear of design: 1973
\nmarketed by: Rutt Electrophysics Corp. (New York, New York, United States)
\ntype of application: video
\nThis processor modulates the deflection line of the electromagnetic field of television images. On a normal screen, the synchronisation signals are controlled by electromagnets that guide the movement of an electromagnetic ray so as to scan the 525 screen lines. The Rutt-Etra monitor contains a system of electromagnets and a built-in synchronisation mechanism for processing the video signal. The modulations alter the field of raster lines, which are vertically deflected and appear to adopt the contours of objects.<\/p>\n
\nDesigner: George Brown
\nYear of conception: 1973
\nThis digital sequencer is controlling an analogue video keyer in real time. By way of the keying process, a chromatic value is removed from an image on which a motif will be added. In conjunction with the keyer, the Multikeyer enables six video sources to be merged and placed on different planes according to a pre-programmed sequence.<\/p>\n
\nDesigner: George Brown
\nYear of conception: 1974
\nThe only digital instrument in the Vasulka’s instrument collection before 1977, the Programmer can control the actions of a switcher or a keyer, both analog devices. It can store operation sequences in its memory and activate them at any chosen moment.<\/p>\n
\nDesigner: Jeffrey Schier and Woody Vasulka
\nYear of conception: 1978
\nThis digitizer breaks the video image down pixel by pixel and reshapes the components in an environment governed by mathematical laws. The Digital Image Articulator generates effects of pixelation, manipulates the borders of an image, stretches the image vertically and horizontally, and duplicates it several times on the screen. It is also used to create sequences of complex geometric motifs based on algorithmic structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"