VECTOR HACK 2018

I haven't updated in a while (there is still a write up of my amazing signal culture trip last year coming)

But this is too good not to leave a short post about. I am helping Ivan and Derek with their amazing Vector Hack Festival project. Vector Hack is a festival centred around experimental vector graphics using oscilloscopes and lasers. It's happening in over two sites starting in Zagreb on 01/10/18 and ending in Ljubljana on 07/10/18. I will be attending so if you decide to come see you there!

Ivan and Derek have worked tirelessly to make this happen and it's going to be amazing.

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Vector Hack festival 2018. trailer I from i.m. klif on Vimeo.

Ewa Justka

I found some photos from the semi regular EAVI  night from November where Ewa played which reminded me to post up some of her work and a link to her great site. She often pefromes with hacked CRT televisions and Optoelectronic noise circuits, so there is a great synchronicity of sound and image. ewajustka.tumblr.com

F.C. Judd

The work of Frederick Charles Judd previously neglected somewhat by the history books, has over the last few years received renewed interest due to Ian Helliwell's work. Ian's articles, films and exhibitions have collected and disseminated many of Fred's forgotten work and ideas. One of these was his Chromasonics system, which effectively combined CRT based Lissajous figures with a high speed colour wheel to allow full colour display of the electronic images with movement generated by sound. Fred also wrote a series of articles in Practical Electronics magazine on how to construct such a system as well as other audio visualization techniques such as colour organs. Fred is now recognised as an important electronic and tape music composer with a re-issued collection of works available here.

I wanted to focus on his visual work, so here are a series of scans from my collection and some links.

www.fcjudd.co.uk

ianhelliwell.co.uk/practical_electronica

public-info.co.uk/electronics-without-tears

Here are some stills of the images generated by the 

Chromasonics system 

They are very reminiscent of work by Ben F. Laposky although moving rather than static photographs. Fred was also aware of the Oramics system build by Daphne Oram which also used CRT's. Orams system however used them to turn images of waveforms into electronic signals rather than visualise the sounds themselves. Ian's film Practical Electronica contains some footage Fred created of the Chromasonics system in action. below is a full colour image from the cover of Practical electronics. Fred's work on audio definitely inspired wide range of experimenters, I wonder if any visual work by his readers survive. 

Here are some images the construction of the Chromasonics system notice the large colour wheel that synchronised with the refresh rate of the displayed images so as to selectively colourise different signals allowing for multi colour display.

Here are some stills of Chromasonics and the trailer for Ian's film

These are some clippings of the the displays Fred developed.

And finally a few pics of Fred at work creating sound!

Practical Electronica will be screened on Tuesday in London link to the event here 

CRACKED RAY TUBE

"Cracked Ray Tube is a collaborative realtime project by James Connolly and Kyle Evans that breaks and disrupts the interfaces of analog televisions and computer monitors to produce flashing, screeching, wobbulating, self-generated electronic noise and video."

they have just published a huge update on there site with some awesome images, videos and tutorials


http://crackedraytube.com/textstutorials.html

Cait Stephens

 There is a cool video instillation documented on Cait Stephens site made with modified TVs

Thomas Ronkin - "Knowledge" (five-monitor video installation in 1986)

from ThomasRonkinRelated

go to his site here to learn more Thomas Ronkin

The Block And CRT Video Cubes

Every one knows despite Hantarex and Sony no longer offering CRT monitors they are still a preferred display technology for many galleries and artists, that's where companies like The Block come in. Also they are super sweet for video feedback effects as they react differently to other displays and have real presence as objects!

"About

The Block offers monitors for hire to artists, curators, galleries and museums staging film and video work throughout the UK. The Block funds, produces and provides support for a range of projects which can be found in the updates section of this website."

Ollie Williams Wobbulator Inspired Video Art

Amazing work by Ollie Williams

Karl Klomp Tiny TV

Bradford Bahamas

Ever wanted to play CRT screens like touch pads visually displaying the waveform of the notes they are controlling, well then check out Bradford Bahamas



http://www.bradfordbahamas.com/

video feedback for toshiba v3

here is some cool video from a guy called zenpho I did a post on back here

Jonathan Schipper Invisible sphere

Very impressive video sphere! from Jonathan Schipper here's what he says on his website.
"The sphere contains 215 monitors and 215 cameras. Each camera is opposite to the monitor it feeds. The sphere constantly recreates its surroundings on its monitors from every conceivable angle at all times. The sphere is reflection of media’s attempt to remain revealing as it grows in power and becomes increasingly omni present."

Home Made Cathode Ray Tubes

I love the idea of building machines from scratch for previous projects I have wound pickups and built magnetic recorders but I dont think I have ever seen anything quite as cool as scratch building you own CRT! Nyle Steiner and his fantastic page on the subject has got me itching to try

Sabinegruffat Arduino-Video-Synth

heres an intersting project by Sabine Gruffat link here with video!