Robert Cahen Robert Cahen’s work with video first developed as the result of his studies of electroacoustic composition. | Ed Emshwiller With Sunstone, Ed Emshwiller developed one of the earliest computer animation works in the Computer Graphics Lab. |
Granular Synthesis The Austrian group Granular Synthesis focuses on the interrelationship and transformation of image and sound elements. | Gary Hill Gary Hill believes it fundamental to deconstruct video on all possible levels in order to articulate an electronic language. |
Nan Hoover Nan Hoover, initially trained in fine arts, has worked in video since the early 1970s. | Jodi The group Jodi ‘scratch’ computers and deconstructs what is already installed on the computer. |
Joan Jonas Video used in Joan Jonas’s work is integrated into a broader concept of performance. | David Larcher David Larcher has focused on radically deconstructing image information into an ‘emptied image’ that is ‘video void’. |
Nam June Paik Korean musician and composer Nam June Paik made his mark as the most prominent video pioneer. | Bill Seaman The work of Bill Seaman evolves in the context of an already developed aesthetic language of video. |
John F. Simon, Jr. Every Icon by John Simon Jr. presents the matrix of every image in endless variability. | David Stout David Stout, who studied with Ed Emshwiller, works with interactive media forms. |
Stan VanDerBeek Beginning in the 1960s, Stan VanDerBeek worked with multiple projections on movable screens. | John and James Whitney Using abstract film and computers, John and James Whitney experimented with image and perception from the 1940s to the 1960s. |