The Second Emerging

Expression Biennial :
The Artist and The Computer
September 17,1987 - January 24,1988

Carter Hodgkin
A.I . #9. 1986

The Bronx Museum of the Arts Curator Jurors

1040 Grand Concourse Luis R. Cancel Shalom Gorewitz
Bronx, New York 10456 Patric Prince

Cover : This exhibition and publication were made possible by grants from AT&T Foundation . Additional sup-
Norman Zammitt port is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts,
Caly-Forny-Ay. 1987 and the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York with the cooperation from the Office
of the Bronx Borough President.
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Woody and Steina Vasulka

ECCE . 1987
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Sara Hornbacher Maureen Nappi Woody and Steina Vasulka
Writing Degree Z. 1985 Processional. 1985 ECCE. 1987
5 :00 1 :24 4:00
Video Video Video, one channel of a two-channel
Collection of the artist Collection of the artist installation .
Courtesy Robert Natowitz and The Collection of the artists
Kitchen, New York This video utilizes in part the Quantel/Sony all-
digital video system to combine both Quantel Equipment used includes an Image Articulator
Writing Degree Z was created using Paintbox elements with live action and designed and built by Don Macarthur and Jeffy
interactive analog and digital electronic dimensional perspective moves with audio, in Scnier in cooperation with the Vasulkas and
imaging and control devices. A Cromenco a single system . the RuttlEtra scan processor designed and
frame buffer, Jones raster deflecting device, built by Steve Rutt and Bill Etra.
and wave-form system at the Experimental Stefan Roloff
Television Center were used. Big Fire. 1986 Jane Veeder
2 :30 4KTape. 1986
Hilja Keading Video 3 :26
I Am . 1986 Collection of the artist Video
00 :19 Collection of the artist
Video Video created on an Images II paint system
Collection of the artist and animated into an endless sequence . Hardware and software used in this work are
UV-11Zgrass Graphics computer, Sony
What Matters . 1986 Matthew Schlanger videotape editor, Arp 2600 and Prophet 10
00 :29 Before the Flood . 1985 Audio Synthesizers, and E-mu Emulator 11 with
Video 4:50 custom software programmed in Zgrass .
Collection of the artist Video
Collection of the artist Tanya Weinberger
Give. 1986 Z. 1986
00:30 The work was produced with custom hardware 3 :45
Video built by the artist as well as software from the Video
Collection of the artist Experimental Television Center and also Collection of the artist
utilizing a CATframe buffer with Strobe 64
software written by David Jones. Cartoon produced on the high resolution
I Got What 1 Wanted. 1986
00:05 Artronics paint system at Telesis Productions,
Teckon Inc.
Video
Elephant and Naughty Dove . 1986
Collection of the artist
8 :30 Ann-Sargent Wooster
Conceptual imagery was produced with Video Carmen. 1986
computer generated graphics created with a Collection of the artist 7 :00
Chyron VP1 system. Video
Naoko Tosa Collection of the artist
Maria Manhattan Trip. 1985
Nancy Reagan Takes the Subway . 8 :00 Trains or How I Almost Killed My
1986 Video Sister Katy. 1985
2:44 Collection of the artist 12:00
Video Video
Collection of the artist Video created with Mirage hardware and Collection of the artist
Videographics Aurora system software .
Created on an AT&T FCS 350.
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1980 National Art Center, New York, NY Osaka, Japan Czechoslovakia

1983 New Generation Video Art, Academy of Performing Arts,
Group Exhibitions Komai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Prague, Czechoslovakia
1980 Diverse Directions, Cork Gallery, 1984 Media Collection, Gallery K,
Lincoln Center for the Performing Tokyo, Japan Steina Vasulka
Arts, New York, NY 1986 SIGGRAPH, Dallas, TX 1963 Music Conservatory, Prague,
1985 SIGGRAPH, San Francisco, CA 1986 NCGA Computer Animation Czechoslovakia
1986 SIGGRAPH, Dallas, TX Competition, National Computer
Graphics Association, Anaheim, CA Selected Two-Person Exhibitions
1986 New Video: Japan, Museum of 1971 Max's Kansas City Steak House,
Mimi Smith Modern Art, New York, NY New York, NY
1971 WBAI Free Music Store, Judson
Born Memorial Church, New York, NY
1942 Brookline, MA Frances Valesco 1971 The Kitchen, New York, NY
1975 Fundacibn Museo de Arte
Education Born Contemporaneo de Caracas,
1963 B.F.A., Massachusetts College of 1941 Los Angeles, CA Caracas, Venezuela
Art, Boston, MA
1966 M.F.A., Rutgers University, Education Selected Group Exhibitions
Camden, NJ 1963 B.A., University of California at Los 1971 A Special Video Tape Show,
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Whitney Museum of American Art,
One-Playson Exhibitions 1972 M.A., California State University, N" York, NY
1980 The Art Center, Waco, TX Long Beach, CA 1976 Matrix l: Electronic Materials,
1980 A.I .R. Gallery, New York, NY Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse
1983 Printed Matter, New York, NY Selected Exhibitions and Onondaga County, Syracuse, NY
1980 The Light is Different in California, 1978 Projects : Video XVIII, The
Group Exhibitions Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Museum of Modern Art,
1984 The Center for Book Arts: 1982 New Print(making) New York, NY
The First Decade, New York Technologies, World Print 1984 Fifth Festival International
Public Library, New York, NY Council, San Francisco, CA dArt Video, Locarno,
1985 Disinformation, Alternative 1985 Prints USA, Amerika Haus, Switzerland
Museum, New York, NY Berlin, Federal Republic
1986 Book Works Invitational, Erie of Germany
Art Museum, Erie, PA 1985 SIGGRAPH, San Francisco, CA Jane Veeder
1986 Techno Bliss/Techno Fear,
University of Santa Clara, Santa Born
Teckon Clara, CA 1944 Yuma, AZ
1986 SIGGRAPH, Dallas, TX
Education
Naoko Tosa 1969 B.F.A., California College of Arts
Woody B. and Steina Vasulka and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Born 1977 M.F.A., The School of the Art
1961 Fukuoka, Japan Born Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1937 Woody B. Vasulka, Brno,
Education Czechoslovakia S41ected Exhibitions
1982 Kyushu Junior College of Plastic 1940 Steina Vasulka, Iceland 1982 Video from Chicago, Museum of
Arts Modern Art, New York, NY
Education 1983 San Francisco International
Selected Exhibitions Woody B. Vasulka Video Festival,
1982 Video Independent, Osaka The School of Industrial San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art Center, Engineering, Prague, 1983 SIGGRAPH, Detroit, MI