Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts

09/05/2011

Terry Flaxton - On Video (1985-1987)






5 part documentary on Video Art made by Terry Flaxton between the years of 1985 and 1987 featuring many important Video Artists of the time.

26/10/2009

BBC - Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (2009)

Kraftwerk extracts from the BBC television documentary "Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany".

20/10/2009

TVE S.A. Television Espanola - El Arte Del Video (1989)

This hidden youtube clip seems to have gone under the usual radars. Although produced by a division of Radiotelevision Española, "El Arte Del Video" is an English language documentary from 1989 focusing on the world of late 80s video art. This ranges from Nam June Paik's early television modifications through to some linndrum based MTV-esque video workouts. This clip features interviews with Nam June Paik, Steven Beck, Woody Vasulka and Zbig Rybczynski plus footage from Gary Hill, Ed Emswiller, Max Almy and many more. Thankfully uploaded by JefferyPlaide.

15/10/2009

Ivan Sutherland - Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)



Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988. It helped change the way people interact with computers. Sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting (CAD) programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, the Graphic User Interface was derived from the Sketchpad as well as modern object oriented programming. Ivan Sutherland demonstrated with it that computer graphics could be used for both artistic and technical purposes in addition to showing a novel method of human-computer interaction. From the Wikipedia entry, read more HERE.
 
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