McConnell Macro Video Synthesis System

Here is something you don't see every day a Amiga Video Toaster/ Atari Falcon based video synthesizer with multiple other signal paths going on, thanks to Matthew McConnell for the upload!http://www.tecterran.com/sonovista  Not your standard analogue set up and much closer to systems from the mid 90s

Dean Winkler

Here is a new work from Dean Winkler who has provided me with some of my favourite posts with uploads of his past work.

"An abstract meditation on global warming set to music by Low City. 1980s style analog video layering, created with modern desktop tools."

Check out his Vimeo channel for more fantastic work.

Stan Hayward

British computer animation pioneer Stan Hayward

I believe this is his although also credited to Tony Diment

this is worth watching for the clip of meta. mor. pho. sis. at the end
which looks scanimate-esque (not sure of the attribution) 

origonal source here 

further reading here 

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Video%20and%20Film%20Oct%2075.pdf

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Computer-Aided%20Animation.pdf

http://www.animatormag.com/archive/issue-27/issue-27-page-24/
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Film77.pdf
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Hayward%203M%20Doc3.pdf
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Misc%20Docs.pdf

The Incredible Machine (1968)

Some nice early vector stuff and computer generated visuals in here

Includes some things from Stan Vanderbeck & Ken Knowlton

Eat Static Intrusion 1994 VHS

Footage of rave visuals computer generated 65 minutes from Eat Static 

John Mahin

"Psychedelic Experimental Video by John Mahin. Produced in the Cal Arts Video studio in the 1980's. John used Apple 2 and Amiga computers in the making of his videos. All his videos are performed live with no editing"

http://www.puwame.com/ 

Apple II

this makes me want an old apple again with a pal card

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

Stakker

Mark McClean and Colin Scott Originally collaborated as Stakker producing innovative live visuals and produced various VHS releases and music videos such as the ground braking Eurotechno (1989) and The Evil Acid Baron Show (1988) . There visuals are full of strange 3D landscapes that are reminiscent of early CG  films produced by american companies such as Pacific Data Images and image processing straight form the Fiarlight CVI, the fast cutting and break neck speed at which new visual elements are introduced helped pave the way for what would become the standard style for live VJing and the visual accompaniment to underground electronic music for the next 15 years. Mark and Colin appear to have stopped working together after the release of Eurotechno. However Part of the sound track  was produced and released as a single to great acclaim by soon to be Future Sounds of London member Brian Dougans, Mark McClean went on to produce most of the visuals and artwork for Future Sounds of London including there seminal album Lifeforms. There is very little information available on line as to what became of Mark, Colin or their early influential collaboration. Stakker is credited with the 1995 Aphex Twin sound tracked Westworld VHS so they may have had a much longer working relationship than is described on-line. Mark's work for FSOL is credited as Buggy G Riphead and FSOL have some fantastic videos possibly produced by Mark and collaborators.

I really like the graphics that accompany Glass on the Teachings From The Electronic Brain video

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakker_Humanoid

http://www.minimumwastage.com/post/7189143828/stakker-eurotechno-rephlex-stakker-was-a

http://inspirationiseverything.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/remember-this.html

http://www.mancky.co.uk/?p=424

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/colinscottsalesatukip

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Stakker

TIMROD - CARTOON CREATED WITH DELUXE PAINT on an AMIGA 500

OK so this is a little less hardware based than usual but I just had to post it due to the insanity

Lillian Feldman Schwartz

Here is some cool work from pioneering media artist Lillian Feldman Schwartz youtube link here

"All images and sound copyrighted Lillian Feldman Schwartz. All rights reserved no rights to copy.
Courtesy of the Lillian Feldman Schwartz Collection, The OSU Libraries & The OSU Foundation.

"The changing dots, ectoplasmic shapes and electronic music of L. Schwartz's 'Mutations' which has been shot with the aid of computers and lasers, makes for an eye-catching view of the potentials of the new techniques." - A. H. Weiler, N. Y. Times. Music by Jean-Claude Risset--commissioned by Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise. Golden Eagle-Cine 1973; Red Ribbon award - Special Effects - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Cannes Film Festival, 1974. (7-1/2 min.)"

Analog approaches, non-linear editing, and compositing

interesting site here

"Perhaps one of the earliest pioneers of this analog computer animation approach was Lee Harrison III. In the early 1960s, he experimented with animating figures using analog circuits and a cathode ray tube. Ahead of his time, he rigged up a body suit with potentiometers and created the first working motion capture rig, animating 3D figures in real-time on his CRT screen. He made several short films with this system, called ANIMAC."

image taken from here 

and now with xbox kinect this technology sits atop the family television 

Vasarely Video Synth

The Vasarely Video Synth is a nice looking bit of kit made from a curcuit bent 16bit video game console its audio recative to boot! link here where you can also find some other bent video creations in the DIY section

Jones Modular Video Synth Coming Soon

The Jones Video Synth will be in Euro format and should
come out sometime soon holding page here.  Dave Jones is 
a long time video synth expert and he worked at the 
Experimental Television Center 

LZX Visionary modular video synthesizer has 
been mentioned on VJ forums could this be the same project
or a rival ? info here and here

Scanimate Letter H

From the youtbe description by NantoVision


"1977, a neat little segment about the letter H, narrated by Luis (Emilio Delgado) and a little girl named Heather. With no new episodes of The Electric Company being made that year, I guess CTW had to think of something else to do with their trusty Scanimate machine. Personally, I wish they had used it more."





more on the scanimate here and here