Sherry Miller Hocking
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New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Jean-Pierre Boyer: Electronic Imagery Workshop Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Jean-Pierre Boyer: Electronic Imagery Workshop.1975. television as experimental tool in art-making; construction of raster manipulation unit, wobbulator; electronic image manipulation. television as experimental tool in art-making; construction of raster …
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Synthesizer Conference Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Synthesizer Conference. 1975 follow-up of 1975 conference: Woody Vasulka, Steina Vasulka, Ralph Hocking, Walter Wright, Sherry Milller Hocking,, David Jones, Don McArthur, Nam June Paik, Larry Gottheim.
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Video Index - An Extensive Bibliography of Video and Video Art Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Video Index - An Extensive Bibliography of Video and Video Art 1977. collection, compilation and distribution of index of texts concerning art and technology of small-format video.
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Video Processing Workshop Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Video Processing Workshop. 1979. series of 8 workshops introducing the foundations of video image processing and television as an art-making medium. colorizing, keying, mixing, computer control, analog, rescan. series of 8 workshops introducing the founda…
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Walter Wright - Artist in Residence Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Walter Wright - Artist in Residence. 1975. workshop series; Paik Abe Video Synthesizer; Woodstock Community Video; Portable Channel. workshop series; Paik Abe Video Synthesizer; Woodstock Community Video; Portable Channel.
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal by Gary Hill - Sound/Image Water Environment Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal by Gary Hill - Sound/Image Water Environment. 1976 New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal by Gary Hill - Sound/Image Water Environment. 1976. excerpted
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Development of Synthesis System by Walter Wright for Live Performance Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Development of Synthesis System by Walter Wright. 1973. Live performance. Video synthesis system development. New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Development of Synthesis System by Walter Wright for Live Performance. 1973
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Development of Systems by David Jones Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Development of Systems by David Jones. 1976 Wipe Generator Bank, Digital Raster Manipulation Unit, and Modifications to Jones Colorizer. Wipe Generator Bank, Digital Raster Manipulation Unit, and Modifications to Jones Colorizer - all proposed systems…
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Operation of Experimental Television Center Bibliography
New York State Council on the Arts: Proposal for Operation of Experimental Television Center. 1976. description of ETC programs; workshop; internship; artist in residence; research program; tool design and development; description of ETC programs; workshop; internship; artist in residence; research …
New York State Council on the Arts: Report on Experimental Television Center programs and activities for 1972-73 Bibliography
Report on Experimental Television Center programs and activities to the New York State Council on the Arts for 1972-73. Includes ETC artists in residence, and equipment assistance and workshops conducted for local and statewide community groups, educational organizations and civic and arts groups.
Paik/Abe Colorizer - Experimental Television Center Studio System Manual Tools
The Paik/Abe Colorizer is a manual video mixer combining up to seven video signals into the three inputs of a color encoder and routing the output through an amplifier; channel controls include gain pots, on/off switches, color selectors and pan pots. Selector positions include Red, Green, Blue, R-G, R-B and G-B; the unit performs additive mixing, is sensitive to input gain (producing key-like or negative effects), has no built-in voltage control inputs (external video VCAs and voltage-controlled processors can be used). Photographs by Evangelos Dousmanis and Pamela Hawkins document Charlotte Moorman, Shuya Abe (1971), an early Paik/Abe Colorizer and Nam June Paik at Bonino Gallery.
Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Image Processing Systems Tools
Technical overview of video synthesizers (image processors) defining them as integrated assemblages of video signal sources, processors, and controllers; examples cited include cameras, decks, character generators, oscillators, keyers, VCAs, mixers, colorizers, sequencers, SEGs and frame buffers. The text classifies three signal types (video, sync, control) and lists system elements (sync, routing, output amplifier, monitoring, control); it explains termination and genlock use, describes monitoring equipment (waveform monitor, vectorscope, color and B/W monitors) and outlines the function of colorizers.
Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Scanning Tools
Overview of CRT scanning for camera and monitor rasters, describing pixels and a 525-line frame assembled from two interlaced fields of 262.5 lines (30 frames/sec, 60 fields/sec, 15,750 Hz line frequency) with approximately 483 active lines and about 460 dots per line. The text explains retrace and timing intervals, active versus timing lines, dot-matrix organization, the Kell Factor and typical vertical resolution (~343 lines), and cites persistence of vision and phosphor retention. It also summarizes standards history: NTSC (FCC 1941; US, Canada, Japan), 625/50 Hz Western Europe, 819/50 Hz France, NTSC color (US early 1950s), PAL (late 1960s), SECAM (France; USSR/Eastern Europe), 1969 EIAJ and consumer formats VHS and Beta.
Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Signals Tools
Technical overview of electronic image processing emphasizing video as a time-dependent medium and defining signal as changes in voltage that encode image information; outlines categories of signals (video, audio, control, synchronizing) and their roles in generation, alteration and control of images. Presents electrical fundamentals including voltage, current, resistance and Ohm's Law, waveform representation and measurement (oscilloscope, waveform monitor), modulation, filtering, analog versus digital structures, and control techniques such as potentiometers and voltage control. Notes Michael Faraday (1822) and Woody Vasulka's vector technique using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor; cites Johanna Gill, Video: State of the Art 1976.
Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Switch, Mix, Compare Tools
Overview of electronic image processing outlining imaging systems as signal generators, processors and controllers and describing switching, sequencing, mixing and comparing techniques. It defines switcher types (broadcast and distribution), timing and sync issues including internal versus external sync and vertical-interval switching; it explains sequencers, mixers, fades, wipes and keyers with clip thresholds, oscillator control signals and waveform-based patterns, and notes SEG/mixer re-entry. Switchers and mixers are identified as commercially developed prior to and during the 1950s.
Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Sync Tools
Technical overview of synchronization in electronic video, distinguishing picture information and sync information and explaining horizontal and vertical sync, blanking intervals, sync pulses, equalization and serration pulses, and the role of internal and external sync generators. Provides timing specifics: one horizontal line 63.5 microseconds (52.7 µs visible, 10.8 µs blanking with ~1.27 µs front porch and ~4.76 µs horizontal sync/back porch), vertical blanking ≈1330 µs, field = 262.5 lines, line frequency 15,750 Hz and color subcarrier ≈3.58 MHz with burst on the back porch; VIR on line 19 and VIT on lines 17–18 and captions by networks and PBS in 1980 are noted. Cites Les Levine in Gregory Battcock, New Artists Video (1978) and David Antin, Video's Frightful Parent (1975).
Raster Manipulation Unit: Operation and Construction Tools
Raster Manipulation Unit: Operation and Construction (1980) documents a prepared-television modification that adds extra yokes to a conventional black-and-white CRT and drives them with audio or function generators; the technique permits raster reversal, raster collapse to a line or point, S-curve distortions and other deformations, and uses optical rescanning to record the effects. System configuration lists a modified receiver/monitor with raster reversal and collapse functions, one stereo and one mono amplifier and three audio generators; added yokes include a color yoke and a continuous-wind (S-curve) yoke. Signal examples include sine, square and triangle waveforms, Lissajous patterns and frequency guidelines; Nam June Paik is cited as having popularized the modifications.
Reflections from Owego Bibliography
Reflection written after time in Owego in November situates late-fall observation alongside regional activity; notes a September Visual Studies Workshop symposium Development of Video in New York State 1969-79 in Rochester and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Conference in Cortland in October. Traces twenty years of video practice and a shift from a gift economy toward marketplace models; discusses video and computer technologies, residency conditions at the Center overlooking the Susquehanna River, and concludes with a glossary defining terms such as amateur, isolated, parochial, professional, province, provincial, sophisticated and urbane.
Rockefeller Foundation Proposal - Expansion of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer Bibliography
Rockefeller Foundation Proposal - Expansion of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer. 1974. ETC artist in Residence Program; expansion of Paik Abe Video Synthesizer; control systems; signal generator; rescan. ETC artist in Residence Program; expansion of Paik Abe Video Synthesizer; control systems; signal …
Rutt/Etra: Notes on Development Tools
Steve Rutt and Bill Etra developed the Rutt/Etra scan processor in the early 1970s with support from the New York State Council on the Arts at WNET's TV Lab in 1972–1973; the prototype later saw limited commercial production. The analog DC-coupled modular system modulated monitor deflection signals in real time to retime and reposition raster imagery, comprised three units (monitor/yoke/video amp; control and ramp generators; sweep processing) and was marketed to media artists and broadcast facilities despite high cost and flaws including limited waveform-generator capacity and CRT burn.
Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium Preservation
On May 31 and June 1 at Downtown Community TV Center in New York, over 50 media arts professionals convened for Looking Back/Looking Forward, a symposium on moving image preservation organized by the Experimental Television Center with IMAP and Bay Area Video Coalition. Sessions addressed physical preservation and remastering (including 1/2" open reel), economics, formats, collection assessment and capturing related histories; participants included representatives from museums, archives, media organizations and artist groups. Outcomes included transcripts for the ETC Video History site, a NEA-funded BAVC DVD (due late 2002), two commissioned papers (Video Preservation: The Basics; Reel to Real) and the Video History Project website (launched 2000) holding nine databases and about 3,500 records.
Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium Bibliography
Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium
Scan Processors Tools
Scan processors alter CRT deflection rather than the video waveform; transformed displays are recorded by rescanning the CRT. Nam June Paik, with Hideo Uchida and Shuya Abe, developed raster-manipulation techniques in 1962–64 and exhibited at Galerie Parnass (March 1963); the Experimental Television Center documented his unit with National Endowment for the Arts support in 1978. Bill Etra and Steve Rutt, with Sid Washer and Greg Leopold, prototyped the DC-coupled Rutt/Etra at the WNET TV Lab with New York State Council on the Arts support (1972–73); Lee Harrison III's Computer Image Corporation developed Scanimate and Caesar.
Special Effects Generator - excerpt from the Experimental Television Center Studio System Manual Tools
Excerpt from the Experimental Television Center Studio System Manual describing the Panasonic Special Effects Generator (SEG), a multi-input processor that combines two inputs via mixing, wiping, internal and external keying. The manual documents routing and controls: three main inputs plus an external key at the matrix split to buses A, B and preview; transitions Mix, Wipe, Int and Ext; bar, SUP and Cut functions; inputs 5, 6 and 4 assigned to color bars, black and genlock; outputs to the matrix and patch panel and uses including sending color bars to monitors/VTR, using a color monitor as preview, bypassing the Jones output amp.
Squeaky Wheel at 20 Bibliography
An historical overview of the evolution of Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo.