Tom DeFanti

A joint effort by numerous video artists of the time, starring dancer Rylin Harris.

Early abstract digital painting.

Short video art piece.

Phil Morton's General Motors was created in 1976. Then based in Chicago, the late Phil Morton created this project as a playful and critical video response in conversation with a local General Motors dealership from whom he had purchased a van. Segments 'Colorful Colorado' and 'RYRAL' begin after the video-complaints cease. Produced at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where Morton founded the Video Area), this work includes Dan Sandin and Tom DeFanti who collaboratively developed the early Video Art scene in Chicago.

Chemistry, physics, and mathematics lectures illustrated by computer graphics, including footage explaining and demonstrating the creation and animation of the graphics by Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin.

Video Synthesis produced at the Electronic Visualization Event II.

A joint effort by numerous video artists of the time, starring dancer Rylin Harris.

Early abstract digital painting.

Short video art piece.

Chemistry, physics, and mathematics lectures illustrated by computer graphics, including footage explaining and demonstrating the creation and animation of the graphics by Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin.

Video Synthesis produced at the Electronic Visualization Event II.

Spiral 5 is in the inaugural collection of Video Art at MOMA [Museum of Modern Art] in New York. It was the fifth in a series of performances of a piece called Spiral. Most of the Spirals were performed live in front of audiences by people controlling digital computers and playing on the analog image processor (IP), with musicians jamming along. The GRASS digital system combined with the IP formed the digital visual instrument used in the performance. Spiral 5 was performed in front of a studio audience and the music was re-recorded later. It is an abstract, mathematical animation based on the linear spiral, in something you might call the visual music tradition.

Short experimental animation.