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Dan and Jim Rap on Equipment

Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive

1972 01:03:06 United StatesEnglishB&WMono4:31/2" open reel video
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Documentation, Image Processing, Technology, The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive

Description

In this hour-long video, Dan Sandin demonstrates and explains in detail on modules of the Sandin Image Processor. Beginning with a playful and amateurish set up segment, Dan introduces his new invention, which he hints will be duplicated by Phil Morton shortly. 

Dan starts off explaining the signal path and modularity of the Image Processor, which compiles of “Input Module,” “Output Module,” “Comparator,” “Oscillator,” “Differentiator,” “Adder/Multiplier,” “Function Generator,” “Amplitude Classifier,” etc. After introducing individual modules, Dan illustrates the Processor’s modularity through increasing the complexity of patching. The demonstration ends with Jim Wiseman introducing his equipment, a 14-input mixer with a colorizing section that turns black and white signals to color.

–Gordon Dic-Lun Fung

For more information, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive page. 

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The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive (PMMRA) is an archive of early video and media art created and collected by artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) instructor Phil Morton and his students and collaborators. The collection includes nearly 800 videos, a large portion of which documents the emergence of experimental video and media art education in Chicago during the 1970s. During his time at SAIC, Morton developed an anti-copyright approach called COPY-IT-RIGHT, which advocated that media art should be shared widely and be freely available. In honor of this ethos, all PMMRA titles on Video Data Bank’s website are available to watch for free. Visit a title's artwork page to view the video in full. 

For more information and to access the full list of available titles related to PMMRA, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive Collection page. 

The titles listed on this page are videos collected and produced by Morton's collaborators and students, titles for which Morton may have had an ancillary role. Visit Phil Morton's artist page for a list of titles produced by Morton.