Artifacts

‘This videotape spotlights the research that Woody Vasulka has conducted since the mid-1970s to generate electronic images without camera support. Though Artifacts (1980) arises from a pragmatic relationship with technology, the work nonetheless remains a playful discovery of a new visual language. Artifacts is the second part of the series Syntax of Binary Images, which also includes Transformations (1978). The work provides an overview of the effects created by digital-analogue digitizers of the time. Here, Woody relies especially on the Digital Images Articulator (also called Imager), which he co-designed with Jeffrey Schier.’ – Fondation Langlois