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Creation Myth describes the birth of a new environment utilizing unique fractal and particle system software. It was designed for exhibition on Palladium's 50 monitor video display system.

(Rebecca Allen)

Steady State was commissioned by TVE (Television of Spain) for a 14 part television series titled El Arte del Video (The Art of Video). This piece and other work by Allen were featured in the program, Computers in Video Art.

(Rebecca Allen)

This work examines the ways we communicate through our behavior. Commissioned by Rebo High Definition Studios, New York, it is the first example of computer animation recorded to the HDTV (High Definition Television) format.

Animation was created...

Allen created all visual material for the 1986 album Electric Cafe by the German group Kraftwerk including the classic, award-winning music video, Musique Non Stop. This work involved the development of state-of-the-art facial animation software in...

The next period in Seaman's oeuvre employed video as a poetic technological vehicle, exploring sound, image and text relations within a slow pulsing hypnotic video space. Both linear tapes and video installations were produced. The tapes S.He (1983),...

LORNA
1979-1983 A.D.
A.D. "A precondition to video is that it does not talk back. It absorbs, rather than reflects."
Preliminary Notes, 1981

While video was like a reflection that did not talk back, interactive works were like a trick, two...

The next interactive piece, DEEP CONTACT (1989), directly involves the body of the viewer/participant who were required to touch the computerscreen. Viewers choreograph their own encounters in the vista of voyeurism by actually putting their hand on...

In 1986 Craig W. Reynolds made a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. It was based on three dimensional computational geometry of the sort normally used in computer animation or computer aided design. The...

In front of the Memory Void in the Jewish Museum Berlin, there is a seven-armed candelabrum - the installation Menora by the artist Michael Bielicky. Instead of flames, seven monitors, on which fire signals flicker, crown the candelabrum. The signal...

Marie, a French-speaking Montrealer in her thirties played by actress Paule Ducharme, appears to be lost in reverie. You may try to get her attention: when selecting "Excuse me..." on the display, Marie suddenly stares at you; then, selecting "Do you...