Scan Processor Studies

source: thefoxisblack

It’s kinda hard to describe the video above, but imagine Peter Saville’s cover for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures being animated by Chris Cunningham, a frenzy of white lines on a black background. Well, that’s the first part of this video which in itself is only 8 minutes of a 45 minute video. The video was created by Woody Vasulka and Brian O’Reilly who used a Rutt-Era Scan Processor from the 70’s, which was then further manipulated by a computer. The effect is bizarre and amazing, creating shapes and patterns that seem totally unnatural.
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source: vimeo

The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly.
The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities.
The project first started while Woody and I were working on different commissioned projects at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Germany). He and Steina on the exhibition MINDFRAMES and Garth Knox and myself on the DVD and performance SPECTRAL STRANDS: FOR VIOLA AND VISUALS. Woody, Steina, Garth and I spent many nights screening works for moving images, playing music, and cooking, enveloped in the huge ghost town mood the ZKM’s kitchen took on at night. During this time there were passionate discussions about video synthesizers (mainly my love for the Sandin Image Processor), and how Steina’s VIOLIN POWER had a huge influence on Garth’s and my new series of works.
The source materials were generated by Woody using a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in the 1970’s and sat on a shelf for years, having been recently digitized. Woody came into my studio one day and asked me if I would be interested in using them to work on a collaboration, and the project began from there…
The works use sources excavated directly from the output of the Scan Processor, as well as further manipulations using Tom Demeyer’s ImX software, developed with input from Steina. Extensive editing and layering and additional augmentations were done using Phil Mortons IP. The Sound was generated (mostly) by custom software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and myself called NETHER GENERATOR, which sets up a number of complex real time feedback networks filtered and processed by various means.
SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES was first exhibited as an installation in the ZKM’s MINDFRAMES exhibition.
The source materials from Woody’s original experiments with the Scan Processor have also been used in conjunction with further processing on my part to create the base materials for other works, including a three screen version of Woody’s piece GRAZING and the work LEVEL & DEGREE OF DARK.
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source: comceci

“Scan Processor Studies” est le résultat de la collaboration entre Woody Vasulka et Brian O’Reilly. Les séquences pour ce film ont été réalisées à l’aide d’un Rutt-Etra Scan Processor en 1970 et ultérieurement retouchées. Le résultat – très difficile à décrire – est une sorte de « topographie dynamique », qui retrouve aujourd’hui tout son sens face au développement et à la démocratisation des logiciels de conception par ordinateur et aux nouvelles formes qui peuvent « surgir » de ces processus. En ce sens, le travail de O’Reilly est particulièrement orienté vers la représentation d’une esthétique expressionniste, composée d’images vidéo retouchées et recomposées à l’aide de différents logiciels.
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source: mavideozwordpress

Les SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES sont une collection d’œuvres de Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly réalisées entre 1073 et 2009. Le travail complet est d’une durée totale approximative de 45 minutes, avec des sections de différentes longueurs, textures et qualités dynamiques.Le premier projet a débuté alors que Woody Vasulka et Brian O’Reilly travaillaient sur différents projets mis en service au ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe en Allemagne).
Les matériaux de base ont été générés par Woody Vasulka utilisant un processeur Rutt-Etra Scan des années 70. Les travaux utilisent des sources sorties directement du processeur de numérisation, ainsi que de nouvelles manipulations en utilisant le logiciel Tom Demeyer de IMX, élaboré avec la participation de Steina. Le son a été généré (la plupart du temps) par un logiciel personnalisé développé par Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan et Brian O’Reilly appelé software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and myself called NETHER GENERATOR.
SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIE a été exposé pour la premièrefois comme une installation dans l’exposition du ZKM’s MINDFRAMES.
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source: kaskprojectenbe

Woody Vasulka is een pionier in het domein van de video en mediakunst. Eind jaren 60 startte hij zijn onderzoek naar creatieprocessen en -middelen, zowel op digitaal als analoog vlak.
Brian O’Reilly werkt binnen het veld van elektro-akoestische compositie, bewegende beelden en geluid.

Scan Processor Studies (2009)

Het bronmateriaal werd gegenereerd door Woody met behulp van een Rutt-Etra Scan processor in de jaren 1970 dat later werd gedigitaliseerd. Het materiaal bestaat uit de rechtstreekse output van de Scan processor. Het geluid werd (meestal) gegenereerd door software op maat ontwikkeld door Brian O’Reilly, „NEDER GENERATOR” genoemd, waarmee een aantal complexe real time feedback netwerken gefilterd en verwerkt worden.
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source: zuirens

冰島裔錄像藝術先鋒Vasulka夫婦（Woody & Steina Vasulka）曾經多次運用RUTT/ETRA作為他們創作的工具，1974年的C-Trend和The Matter乃至87年的Art of Memory都是以這台合成器為主要創作脈絡的錄像作品，在有系統地使用與實驗其可能性的過程中，他們發展出RUTT/ETRA最著名的視覺效果：在ㄧ影像中較亮的區域範圍內，將構成畫面水平的光柵(raster)線作垂直處理，進而讓影像形體發生三維z軸空間的視覺形變。
用文字描述挺費力，應該也不那麼好理解，還是看影片吧！

Woody Vasulka和聲音藝術家Brian O’reilly在2009合作的audiovisual實驗短片 Scan Processor Studies (excerpts pt.1)，視覺部分即來自Vasulka於三十多年前用RUTT/ETRA產生的畫面經過數位後製而成。
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source: vdborg

Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1937, Woody Vasulka studied metal technology and hydraulic mechanics at the School of Engineering in Brno and filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1965, he emigrated to New York City with his wife, Steina. Working as a multi-screen film editor and designer, he began experimenting with electronic sound, stroboscopic light, and video. “There are various motives for people who stumble into video. In some cases, it was pure accident; in some cases, it was hope. In my case, I had been in things I couldn’t work with. I was in film, and I couldn’t do anything with it… When I first saw video feedback, I knew I had seen the cave fire. It had nothing to do with anything, just a perpetuation of some kind of energy…”

Moving to Buffalo, New York in 1974, he taught at the Center for Media Study at the State University, and continued his investigation of the machinery behind the electronic signal. After working with the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, Vasulka collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in 1976 to build a computer controlled personal imaging facility called The Digital Image Articulator. Vasulka wrote articles about video’s particular electronic vocabulary that were published in Afterimage.