Ellen Sandor & (art)n

(don't bother me while I'm talking)

The first video portrait, featuring Mark Resch (left) and Ellen Sandor (right), produced with an early morphing technique.

The first video portrait, featuring Mark Resch (left) and Ellen Sandor (right), produced with an early morphing technique.

(don't bother me while I'm talking), 1986

Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Mark Resch

Dan Sandin, Electronic Visualization Lab, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Kodalith, Kodalth, Plexiglas

14 x 11 inches

Image Processed Video Portrait of

Ellen Sandor

Image Processed Video Portrait of Ellen Sandor, 1986

Ellen Sandor & (art)n

Dan Sandin, Electronic Visualization Lab, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Vintage video PHSCologram: analogue interleaved Kodak Fast Film and Kodalith films mounted on plexiglas

14 x 11 inches

Image Processed Video Portrait of

Dan Sandin

I participated in my first interactive computer environment in 1969, an exhibit developed with Dan Sandin (who later invented the video-image processor and, in 1976, the data input glove), sculptor Jerry Erdman, and computer science professor, Richard Venezsky. This exhibit, called "Glowflow" was controlled by traditional artistic sensibilities. Basically, it was a sculpture, a computer-controlled, light-and-sound environment. On the walls of a room there were tubes filled with colored phosphorescent pigments suspended in water. The room was otherwise dark, so the glowing tubes defined the space. For instance, the bottom tube represented the floor. As people walked into the room, they saw the tube slanting slightly downward, so they would lean backwards-they thought they were going downhill. It showed the incredibly powerful role that our visual sense plays in defining reality.

Glowflow also incorporated six loud-speakers and spatial sound imaging. Sounds rotated around the room or "bounced" from wall to wall. Controlled by a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-12 minicomputer, the system ran lights, loudspeakers, and a Moog sound synthesizer.

Dr. Myron W. Krueger, Ph.D., "The Art in Artificial Reality-Videoplace & Other New Forms of Human Experience," 1992, Linda Jacobson, CyberArts-Exploring Art & Technology

Image Processed Video Portrait of Dan Sandin, 1986

Ellen Sandor & (art)n

Dan Sandin, Electronic Visualization Lab, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Vintage video PHSCologram: analogue interleaved Kodak Fast Film and Kodalith films mounted on plexiglas

14 x 11 inches

Sandor Set/Economic Chaos

A video portrait of Richard Sandor juxtaposed with a computer generated Fiegenbaum Bifurcation diagram.

First Video Portraits

Color Nude Study, 1987

Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Jim Zanzi, Mark Resch and Gina UhlmannDan Sandin, Electronic Visualization Lab, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Kodalith, Kodalth, Plexiglas

(3) 14 x 11 inches