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Thanks for the news, and the article.  It brought back memories.  I met 
Nam June Paik in the 70's when I worked at the ETC.  He was highly 
regarded as the "father" of video art.

http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/

Check out the site and look at the history.

At the time I was thinking about applying to a music school in Boston to 
study the electric bass and become a professional bassist (I was already 
playing gigs with bands).  I mentioned this to Nam June one day and he 
cautioned against it.  His idea was that formal school would ruin your 
creativity.  "Might come out worse than went in," he told me, as I 
recall.   I don't know how much this influenced me, but I didn't to to 
that school and never became a full-time professional bassist.

We did not have a Rutt-Etra video synthesizer in the ETC studio, due to 
its cost, but we knew people who did have them or had access to them.  
The ETC had a couple of Paik-Abe colorizers. As mentioned in the 
article, the Paik-Abe was limited.  One of those limitations was a lack 
of voltage control.  (Another was that video went directly through pots 
on the panel, which I had the job of changing once a year.)  Some of the 
projects I worked on at the ETC with the engineer David Jones included 
voltage controlled video VCA's, switches and keyers.  The control 
voltages were standard +/-5V, so that you could use audio synthesizers 
(such as Aries or Serge) to control the video.

-Richard Brewster
http://www.pugix.com


Dale Kay (Inquisitor Betrayer) wrote:

> *http://tinylink.com/?heveWPkqHZ** *
> same link
> looks fine but just in case...
>  
> and further in case tinylink is down *http://tinyurl.com/9jxla*
>  
> dale
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>     *From:* Doug Lynner <mailto:doug@mlwebworks.com>
>     *To:* The_Cyndustries_List@yahoogroups.com
>     <mailto:The_Cyndustries_List@yahoogroups.com>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:59 AM
>     *Subject:* [The_Cyndustries_List] Nam June Paik
>
>     Sadly Nam June Paik has passed away at age 74.
>
>     For those not familiar with him, Paik was a pioneer in video
>     synthesis.
>
>     In his memory I offer this link to an article on video synthesis that
>     was published in Synapse Magazine. It is a long link so be sure
>     you grab
>     it all if it suffers from any wrapping problems.
>
>     Doug
>
>     http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/synapse.cfm?pc=51&folder=july1977&pic=15
>     <http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/synapse.cfm?pc=51&folder=july1977&pic=15>
>