This talk was delivered to the SAIC sound department on March 28, 2012.
Cracked Ray Tube
Cracked Ray Tube at Super Happy Fun Land in Houston, Texas, October 9, 2011.
Kyle Evans
VIDEO
Kyle's Electronically Modified Didgeridoo
Kyle Evans, VTXTV At Heaven Gallery, 2010
My Own Work
Universal Codec Error Aborting Video , James Connolly 2010
CRT Video Synthesizer Experiment 03 , James Connolly 2010
COLLABORATING/COMBINING OUR SYSTEMS
The Salvation Army at Fullerton and Ashland on November 6, 2010
Computer monitors waiting to be restored or recycled at Free Geek Chicago
Experimenting with stacked televisions, November 2010
Experimenting with stacked televisions, November 2010
MORE INDEPTH LOOK AT OUR INSTRUMENTS: CREATING SYSTEMS OF CHAOS
Combining two instruments exploiting two different communication networks of cathode ray tubes.
TELEVISIONS-DIY Transmitter Feedback Loop
Kyle Evans, DIY circuit bent analog video transmitter
DIY video transmitter
Sending television outputs back to televisions in a feedback loop wireless analog video transmission
Transmitting actual footage through wireless analog video transmission
Kyle Evans, hand-wound electromagnet in progress, 2011
Kyle Evans, hand-wound electromagnet, 2011
Kyle Evans, hand-wound electromagnet places inside television, 2011
Sending 60 hz from a function generator to diy electromagnets inside
James Connolly, no-input mixing board
VGA d-sub connectors
Hacked VGA cable
No-input mixing feedback loop
Shorting the feedback loop
Finding vertical bars within the feedback (frequencies above our hearing range)
Sending square waves from a malfunctioning function generator to the RG+B pins
Sending square waves from a broken function generator to the VGA monitors, October 2011 in Houston, TX
Broken function generator used to send frequencies to the monitors and electromagnets
SCORING/COMPOSING PERFORMANCES
Intro: broken function generator square waves sent to VGA monitors, televisions turn on
Chaotic Feedback
Vertical bars/shorting out
Chaortic feedback/grounding the function generator
Vertical bars in VGA monitors with with video signal transmitted to televisions
60 Hz. signal sent ao all monitors and magnets
HISTORICAL INFLUENCES
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik, Piano Piece, 1993 Installation
Nam June Paik V-Yramid, 1982, Video installation, color, sound, with forty television sets, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Nam June Paik, Magnet TV , 1965, Modified black-and-white television set and magnet, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Nam June Paik, Magnet TV
Kyle Evans, electromagnet inside a television being sent a 60hz sine wave
Kyle Evans, electromagnet inside a television being sent a 60hz sine wave
James Connolly, VGA monitor electromagnet experiment, February 2012
Sending 60 hz to diy electromagnets inside the televisions, GLI.TC/H 2011
The Paik/Abe Synthesizer , also known as the Wobbulator at the Experimental Television Center.
Imagery generated in the Wobbulator
Nam June Paik, undated video experiments with color cathode ray tube
Nam June Paik, undated video experiments with color cathode ray tube
Nam June Paik, undated video experiments with color cathode ray tube
Nam June Paik, Random Access, 1963
John Cage
John Cage, still from a performance of Variations V
Dan Sandin, Phil Morton, and the Sandin Image Processor
Dan Sandin with the Sandin Image Processor
Still from Phil Morton's General Motors, 1976
VIDEO
Dan Sandin demonstrating the Sandin Image Processor
Ben Laposky
Ben Laposky
Ben Laposky, Oscillon
Kyle Evans, Sine.Magnet.Phosphoresced, 2011
Kyle Evans, Sine.Magnet.Phosphoresced, 2011
VIDEO
Kyle Evans, Sine.Magnet.Phosphoresced, 2011
Ant Farm
Still from Ant Farm's Media Burn , 1975
Distribution Religion
The Distribution Religion, Phil Morton and Dan Sandin
Phil Morton using the Sandin Image Processor
Diagram from Distribution Religion
Dan Sandin's Distribution Religion Introduction
Phil Morton's Distribution Religion Introduction
Cracked Ray Tube Performances
Posters for Strange Electronics, February 2011
Poster for Strange Electronics 2, May 2011
Acid Marshmallow night a Beauty Bar, February 2011, Chicago
Handmade Music Showcase at SXSW 2011, Austin, TX
Houston, TX October 2011
GLI.TC/H 2011, Chicago, IL
The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Atlanta, GA February 2012
The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Atlanta, GA February 2012
UPCOMING PROJECTS:
VARIATIONS V
James Connolly, photocell instrument for John Cage's Variations V performance, 2012
Kyle Evans, MaxMSP patch for photocells to interact with Cracked Ray Tube's setup for a performance of John Cage's Variations V, 2012
NEWS/EVENTS
2019
April 2019 essay on Rolling Ryot's Rainforest Reverb published in exhibition catalog for 2019 Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX February 28, 2019 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for the Performing Media Festival at Indiana University South BendFebruary 18 - March 9, 2019 2019 Romp Through the Sandin Image Processor exhibited in the Performing Media Exhibition at Indiana University South Bend January 25, 2019 Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists
↓2018↓
November 29, 2018 Light/Transmission/Protocol interactive outoor installation for CounterVolt Version.002 at The North Door, Austin, TX November 29, 2018 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for CounterVolt Version.002 at The North Door, Austin, TXAugust 11, 2018 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for ARIADNE/CONNOLLY/CATES/KOLAR at Digital Art Demo Space, Chicago, ILApril 10, 2018 Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists premieres at the Athens International Film and Video Festival , Athens, OH.April 8, 2018 short video screened at ACRE TV's Nightingale Tele-thon fundraiser, Chicago, IL.March 24, 2018 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for the Ann Arbor Film Festival "Off the Screen" expanded cinema program
April 2017 Universal Codec Error Aborting Video and Ball Skills/Waveforms/White Bro Riots screened at "VIGOROUS—a series of shorts" at Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH.
October 2016 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for "Ariadne, James Connolly, Jon Cates" at Elastic Arts, Chicago, ILSeptember 2016 Light.Transmission.Protocol interactive sound and video installation at the Paseo Festival, Taos, NM.June 2016 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM.June 2016 : Cracked Ray Tube hardware hacking and DIY video synthesis workshops at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM.June 2016 : Cracked Ray Tube hardware hacking and DIY video synthesis workshops Austin, TX.1.9.2016 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.1.6.2016-1.11.2016 : Residency at the Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.
10.16.2015 : RGB.VGA.VOLT at Aurora 2015 in the arts district of Dallas, TX.9.10.2015-9.12.2015 : RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at DINCA VISION QUEST 2015 , exact location and date TBA.7.18.2015 : video screening at Physical Education , ChiTown Futbol, Chicago, IL. 7.9.2015 : work available for download in TCC Chicago's Digital Buffet at Catalyze Chicago . 6.25.2015-7.2.2015 : Residency at Signal Culture , Owego, NY. 5.27.2015 : Essay "Cracking Ray Tubes: Reanimating Analog Video, a Digital Context," published in the 2014 Leonardo Music Journal now available for download. 5.2.2015 : RGB.VGA.VOLT at Coop Gallery5.1.2015 : Artist talk and hardware hacking workshop at Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film, Nashville, TN.4.10.2015 : Remote performance for VIRTUALPUBLIC.NETWORK at the Museums and the Web 2015 conference, Chicago, IL.1.10.2015 : Artist talk and hardware hacking workshops with Kyle Evans at Oil and Cotton, Dallas, TX.1.9.2015 : Cracked Ray Tube performance for the Dallas Medianale
1.23.2014-3.7.2014 : Cracked Ray Tube performance for Discarded: The Afterlife of Everyday Electronics at Columbia College's Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL.11.23.2013 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for DINCA VISION QUEST at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL9.30.2013 : Jon Cates and James Connolly at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL.6.21.2013 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for mACREs & brACREs at Landscape, Chicago, IL.5.30.2013 : Articular Facet collaborative performance at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL.4.30.2013 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance with Dither Doom at the Empty Bottle, Chicago.4.28.2013 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for Expanded Cinematic at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL2.15.2013 : Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA.1.12.2013 : Collaborative John Cage-influenced performance with Julia Miller and Enid Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
12.8.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at the GLI.TC/H DeFunct/ReFunct thread, Chicago, IL.12.7.2012 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at GLI.TC/H Open Robin at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL12.5.2012 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance of John Cage's Variations VI , organized by Julia Miller at the Leroy Neiman Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.10.19.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Vancouver New Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia.9.14.2012 : Essay on Spectralina published, the catalog for the exhibition Afterimage at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL.10.14.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at Bernadette's, Austin, TX.4.14.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube performance of Jon Cage's Variations V score organized by Julia Miller at Room 300, Chicago, IL.3.6.2012 : VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at the Burlington bar, Chicago, IL.2.19.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN.2.16.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube wins 2nd place at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.2.16.2012 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
11.21.2011 : Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR.11.5.2011 : Hardware hacking workshop with Kyle Evans at the Nightingale for GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.11.4.2011 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at ENEMY for the GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.5.6.2011 : Cracked Ray Tube performance at ENEMY for Strange Electronics 2 , Chicago, IL.2.18.2011 : Cracked Ray Tube performance for Strange Electronics at Transistor, Chicago, IL.
10.2.2010 : Die Computer performance at the Nightingale for the GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.4.14.2010 : Die Computer performance for Critical Glitch Artware Category at Notacon, Cleveland, OH.
