In March 2007 I completed an Artist Residency at the historic Experimental Television Center. ETC has an incredible collection of vintage, one-of-a-kind, hand-built video equipment that has been lovingly maintained. Steve and I spent an inspiring week experimenting with the creations of video art pioneers such as Nam June Paik and Dan Sandin, whose ‘Wobulator’ and ‘Image Processor’ video synthesizers continue to yield dynamic, abstract imagery more than 30 years later. We generated about 10 hours of video material, which we are continuing to refine into several pieces.

Inspired by traditional quilt patterns and the impending end of analog broadcast TV, this generative piece is based on a software algorithm that autonomously remixes the video stream.

In this installation live broadcast TV programs on 11 televisions are continuously remixed into a rhythmic, stroboscopic composition. It functions automatically, cycling among preprogrammed patterns, yet with a strong element of indeterminacy due to the unpredictable content.

This piece manifests the attraction/ repulsion relationship I have with TV. It provides a hyper-stimulating barrage of fast-paced images and sounds, yet frustrates attempts to actually ‘watch’ it in a conventional sense.

Created as the culmination of my MFA in Art & Technology, this electronic installation is run by a MAX/MSP/Jitter patch that both outputs video samples and talks to a PIC microcontroller. The PIC is programmed in C with my rhythmic pattern algorithms and controls custom video switching electronics.