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  • Grass - video
    The original programming language "GRASS" (GRAphics Symbiosis System) was developed by Thomas DeFanti for his Ph.D. dissertation at The Ohio State University in 1974. For further information, see Wayne Carlson, Historical Significance In 1969, the
  • The Pygmy GamelanArtist: Paul DeMarinisComment:
  • Diadrama
    The Diadrama was an audio-visual performance with over 2000 slides being projected onto a large wide screen by three pairs of synchronised slide projectors. The main themes explored in this work were panoramic methods of representation, the collage
  • A custom laser scanning system was developed that could project the laser beam as shaped planes and cones of light in a full 360-degree space around the projector. Scanning and rotation of the laser mirrors was controlled by a specially made analog
  • Environmental Media Studies explored new ways of representing landscape and place. Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move and movie projectors don’t, and filmed the Boston
  • The Neon Wave Sculpture is an urban light sculpture that is interactively controlled by varying wind speeds. Mounted on the exterior wall of an apartment building, it is constituted by 48 sine-curved neon tubes. The light level in each tube can be
  • Lorna - video
    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
  • In my Art Electronic exhibition, ELECTROURBS, 1979, at N.O. Space, In Porto Alegre and after in 1982, at Funarte, Galeria Sergio Milliet I used one electronic stetoscope to amplify the heart beats for medical diagnostics, and creatively I intended
  • In 1977 Marga Adama, John Munsey and Jeffrey Shaw established Javaphile Productions. Other artists then joined the core members in the group’s various works. Its main activity was the creation of ritual performances that had a strong affinity with
  • Inside perspex panels and electro-mechanical system is able to sort over 2000 balls and create images by choosing the relevant positions of either the dark-blue or pale-yellow balls. These images are first created (by anyone) by drawing on a video