http://videothing.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-wave-70s-doc-on-analog-video-synths.html
via Video Thing.
I always wondered how video feedback was done, now I know. I've been working again recently with a video "artist" (the speech marks are most certainly intentional) if she had even half the ingenuity of these early pioneers then her work would be a million times better than it is. Seriously, what happened to video art? Did all the interesting artists decamp over to computer art instead? Most of today's so-called video artists seem to think just picking up a camcorder and pointing it at something makes it art. Old-fashioned ideas about composition, lighting, framing (or even) puting the camera on a tripod seem to have disappeared. This lady that I've been working with doesn't even know how to edit. Is technique now dead in all forms of modern art or what?
For those interested in the history of Video Art, by the way, Video thing also has a link to the archive of 70's new wave video art magazine: Radical Software.
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