Genevieve Herve

"Photographer and director, Genevieve HERVE is a pioneer of video and electronic images."

"While it was on directing the “Challenge of the actor” , that was the major document of a PhD in Literature, that she came in contact with the INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) in 1976 ,where, within the GRI (Research Group Image) she learned video editing and became familiar with the two home computers (I believe a poor translation of video synthesizers/processors): the Universal Trickster (Truquer Universel) and the Spectron."

http://genevieveherve.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/genevieveherve/

http://www.youtube.com/user/GrandCanalCollector/

Robert Cahen

Robert Cahen video artist, photographer and composer first developed his work as the result of his studies of electro acoustic composition with Michel Chion and Pierre Schaeffer at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Paris in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Cahen discovered and used the EMS Spectron in a series of video works he made in the late 1970s. He first worked with the an early French video processor called the Truquer Universel built by Francis Coupigny , Cahen began using the Spectron when he gained access to one whilst working at the INA (Institut National de l’ Audiovisuel), and produced Sans Titre (1977), L’Eclipse (1979), Trompe- l’oeil (1979) and L’ent’apercu (1980) he has gone on to produce many more interesting works and collaborations.

L’ Invitation au voyage

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cahen

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/mumt303/slides/MUMT303_Slides_Week04.pdf

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=734

http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=294

http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2012/fugitive-beauty-the-films-of-robert-cahen/

http://www.meigh-andrews.com/writings/essays/video-colour-image-processors

http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/fiche_auteur.php?auteur=50

http://www.newmedia-arts.be/english/reperes-h/70.htm

http://www.dotcrawl.org/action/download_files/cmeighandrews-article.pdf

http://www.ina-sup.com/ressources/dossiers-de-laudiovisuel/les-e-dossiers-de-laudiovisuel/pierre-schaeffer-ou-la-quete-de-lalchimie-entre-limage-et-le-

Videoheads

Here is an awesome website and youtube channel for Videoheads a very early (and still somewhat active) video arts collective

"Videoheads began its activities in London, 1967 at the Arts Lab, working with some equipment donated to us by The Beatles. This cumbersome and unreliable equipment was replaced in 1968 when we staged a huge happening at the Albert Hall known as The Alchemical Wedding. Money from that event was used to create a studio and mobile equipment dedicated to the documentation of alternative artistic activities which "normal" TV would not bother with. We were the TV of the alternative society.

In the intervening 40 years we have always maintained a free, open studio, archive and showplace dedicated to what we call "Videoculture"

After 20 years of consulting and working with UNESCO in Paris, the collection and workshop have been re-united in our new workspace in Amsterdam"

here are some awesome videos 

thanks to Diamond Variations for bringing these guys to my attention  :)