{"id":7168,"title":"Peer Bode","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/peer-bode","version":"9049ee3dc3c2db1d0577f20b71a80340a833fd26d17edc675c7f3b6e6e1410f9","modified":"2011-06-17T23:59:21+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Peer","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Bode","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Peer Bode.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/peer-bode.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7168.ris"},"links":[{"label":"https://www.vdb.org","url":"https://www.vdb.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://www.deeplistening.org/dlc/label.html","url":"https://www.deeplistening.org/dlc/label.html","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":21656},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":533}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"studied cinema and new media with Larry Gottheim, Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, Nicholas Ray, Ralph Hocking, Paul Sharrits, Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad and Woody and Steina Vasuka. At the Experimental Television Center in Binghamton and Owego, New York, in the late 70\u0027s till the present Peer Bode has worked on electronic video instrument projects with Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller, Walter Wright, David Jones, Richard Brewster and Hank Rudolph. In the 70\u0027s Bode choreographed video and dance performances together with Meryl Blackman, Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane, Lois Welk, Cara Brownell and Charlie Seltzer. As Programs Coordinator at the Experimental Television Center 1977-85 and 1986-87 Bode worked and taught in the ETC residency program with more than 400 national and international artists. Peer Bode in the early 80\u0027s was also a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club led by electronic instrument designer David Jones together with Barbara Buckner, Neil Zusman, Mimi Martin and Mathew Schlanger meeting together weekly to hand wire prototype video processing tools. Peer\u0027s father, Harald Bode was a pioneer in the development of electronic music instruments in Germany and the United States from the late 1930\u0027s to the late 1980\u0027s. His instruments include the Warbo Organ, the Melochord, the Polychord, the first modular audio synthesizer, the Bode Ring Modulator and Frequency Shifter ( which became part of the Moog Synthesizer), the Bode Vocoder, the Moog Vocoder and the Barberpole Phaser. Peer\u0027s brother, Ralf Bode, was a cinematographer in New York and Hollywood. His many films included \u0022Saturday Night Fever\u0022, the Philadelphia scenes of \u0022Rocky 1\u0022, \u0022Dressed to Kill\u0022, \u0022Coal Miner\u0027s Daughter\u0022, \u0022Gorky Park\u0022, \u0022Don Juan De Marco\u0022 and others. Peer\u0027s mother, Irmgard Bode, was the fabulous passionate and humorous human glue that made it all make sense, also an inspired cook, dedicated gardener and colorful radio host. Peer Bode is an internationally exhibiting American new media artist of German and Norwegian descent. He is also an active educator and studio advocate and facilitator of independent electronic media. He is associated with the renowned American Owego and Alfred schools of new media imaging. Bode is Professor of Video Arts at the School of Art and Design and Co-Director of the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. His work is produced at the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, NY and Pep Studios, Hornell and Rochester, NY. The IEA and the ETC are supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Peer Bode\u0027s work is included in \u0022a Survey of American Video Art - The First Decade\u0022, a project of Chicago\u0027s Video Data Bank (https://www.vdb.org ). Peer Bode has collaborated on numerous electronic tool building projects with video systems designer David Jones and artist Ralph Hocking. He is also a member of the \u0022Carrier Band\u0022 together with Andrew Deutsch and Pauline Oliveros. Their CDs \u0022Carrier\u0022 and \u0022Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody\u0022 are on the Deep Listening label ( https://www.deeplistening.org/dlc/label.html ). The new 2003 CD \u0022Autumn Light\u0022 with Stephen Vitiello, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch is available on forcedexposure.com. Peer Bode has recently exhibited new media work and lectured in Hongzhou and Beijing, PR China. His electronic history piece \u0022Transport 1, 2 3\u0022 will be shown at the European Media Art Festival 2003 in Osnabruck, Germany. Peer Bode Selected Video 1975 - 2001 Blue 1975 4 min. 50 sec. 1 - 87 1976 4 min. 35 sec. 100 Sec. Lumination (S.A.I.D. Spatial and Intensity Digitizer) 1976 1 min. 40 sec. Cup Mix ( 2 channels ) [excerpt] 1977 10 min. 47 sec. Picture \u002B/- Changes 1977 10 min. Video Locomotion (man performing forward hand leap) 1978 5 min. Keying Distinctions 1978 3 min. 30 sec. Apple(s) 1978 4 min. 19 sec. Music on Triggering Surfaces 1978 3 min. Vibratory Sweep 1978 2 min. 50 sec. Ring Modulation 1978 7 min. 47 sec. Counting and Remapping 00-FF (partial disclosure) [excerpted] 1979 7 min. 16 sec. Flute with Shift 1979 3 min. 55 sec. Lava Shifts 1979 3 min. 55 sec. Site(s) 1980 7 min. 42 sec. Video Movements 1980 5 min. Switch / Drift 1980 7 min. 30 sec. Light Bulb (with circular update, camera zoom \u002B 1981 3 min. 30 sec. pan \u002B variable clock) Rectangular Update 1981 2 min. 45 sec. Comp Book Updates 1981 4 min. 30 sec. Ladder (with vertical update, camera zoom and pan) 1981 2 min Invented Eye #1 1983 2 min. 48 sec. Camel with Window Memory 1983 4 min. 22 sec. Green Window 1983 1 min. 30 sec. Landscape 3 x 3 x 16 x 3 1984 1 min. 43 sec. Synthetic Series #2 1984 2 min. 35 sec. Art of Memory 1985 3 min. 30 sec. Blind Fields 1985 4 min. 50 sec. Animal Migrations ( and why they don\u0027t get lost ) 1985 11 min. 30 sec. Artist\u0027s Studio / After Braque / Conversation 1988 19 min A Few More Magic Words 1993 20 min. Animal Migrations ( and the mediums they face ) 1985 / 95 22 min. Electro Memory Notes 1998 10 min. Bonzai Mem-ory for Two Windows 1998 15 min. Lightning Memory 1998 3 min. Moments for Kathy Acker, the best God, signed God 1998 12 min Silicon Alley Allegany/Manhattan 1999 10 min. Give It Away 2000 28 min. History Electronic 2000 15 min. Transport 2001 10 min Peer Bode Selected Video Blue 1975 4min. 50sec. An electronic synthetic color video, based on a memory of Larry Gottheim\u0027s film \u0022Blues\u0022. \u0027Natural\u0027 and \u0027electronic\u0027 real time events. New American Electronic Cinema. B\u0026W video camera, Paik-Abe colorizer, 1/2\u0022 vtr, blue berries, bowl and milk. Viva Video. 1 - 87 1976 4min. 35sec. Inspired by Ralph Hocking\u0027s Fish Biting Tape. 87 stones thrown, shifting water sounds, a real time performance event. Holding the camera and throwing 87 stones into the frame. 1/2\u0022 b\u0026w reel to reel Sony portapack. 100 Sec. Lumination (S.A.I.D., Spatial and Intensity Digitizer) 1976 1min. 40sec. My first recording with Don McArthur\u0027s \u0022Spatial and Intensity Digitizer\u0022. Image/signal in digitized state/space; noise field. 100 seconds of very beautiful digital noise light. Cup Mix ( 2 channels ) 1977 10 min. 47sec. A cup and saucer, pouring and drinking coffee, a duration ritual of contemplation and invigoration, doubled (tape copied), mixed, keyed \u002B synthetic color, played back fast forward, fast backward, sync events, the opening of a space to put the self. 1/2 inch b\u002Bw portapack, 2 reel to reel video tape decks, David Jones keyer and colorizer Picture \u002B/- Changes 1977 10 min. Electric chair. Chair and oscillator difference that is based on the varying image light intensities from broadcast television programing. 2 oscillators, b\u0026w camera , David Jones keyer and colorizer, Peer Bode (personally built) light intensity to control voltage converter. You don\u0027t see the broadcast television program. You only see the electric chair controlled by it. Power/control. Video Locomotion (man performing forward hand leap) 1978 5min. Homage to Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge photo grid put into a video system space. Movement is created by detuning the horizontal and vertical video synchronization (time base) signal. Drift and horizontal doubling takes place. When the horizontal frequency doubles the man doubles on top of himself. A para-cinema shutter discovered by combining video luminance keying of the sync signal together with time base drifting. A basic video structure; sync and a basic video process;keying together create a video based film like shutter, simulating a crude persistence of vision system. Primitive physical structures of the video signal, combined, bring Muybridge\u0027s photo grid into an electronic animation of false movements. The overall time composition is a simple structure of increased time display of the photogrid and decreased time duration of the photogrid drifting. Two b\u0026w cameras, time base detuning and keying. Keying Distinctions 1978 3min. 30sec. Time base sync drift, keying, bricks and white noise. b\u0026w camera, time base detuning and keying. Apple(s) 1978 4min. 19sec. One apple, two b\u0026w cameras, color burst, independently altered time base, in a permutation sequence of keying normal and reverse, camera one then camera two as key clip. Music on Triggering Surfaces 1978 3min. Image and sound interface. The image and its movements as a sound score. Vertical and horizontal time base shifting, a book, legs of a chair, a dot marking the place of light intensity measuring, light intensity/ voltage control of electronic audio oscillators. The image is a moving field of information, a score to control sound. B\u0026W camera, v and h time base drifting, keyer, light to c.v. interface. Vibratory Sweep 1978 2min 46sec. Time bases and vertigo. A TV repair test pattern is run through an oscillator controlled Paik-Abe Wobulator. The image and sound are simultaneously altered. The deflected test pattern is picked up by two rescanning cameras that are then keyed together. The score and time shape of the performance recording is that of sweeping the oscillator frequencies up to near hearing limits and then down again while permutations of the two keyed cameras are played out.. V.S. is a real time recording of simultaneously performed activities that took 2min 46 sec. to take place. The activities are complex, the space is delirious. Ring Modulation 1978 7min. 47sec. Image states/ sound states. A bell hand held ringing, two oscillators each independently controlling a sync event- a red and blue color together with sound and no sound state and a sweeping video clip together with audio filtering. Both oscillators sweep up incrementally one after the other and then down. The visual and sound bell is immersed in the electronic space/state. One b\u0026w camera, two oscillators, David Jones keyer and colorizer, audio filter. Vibratory spaces to live in. Calm and ecstatic Counting and Remapping 00-FF (partial disclosure) 1979 7min. 16sec. A table, a cup, a typewriter, a hexadecimal number and letter count. I am remembering a Hollis Frampton film. The video image is slowly undulating from magnetic deflection. This is a digital video recording using a hand built analog to digital and digital to analog converter with arithmetic logic unit. Design and building assistance from David Jones. This recording is a counting through logic permutations ; adding, subtracting, oring and noring, to change the order of the sixteen shades of grey. The color subcarrier that is mixed into the video signal is also cut up and altered. The image is a digital and analog video text. Flute with Shift 1979 3min. 39sec. Sound image interface / electronic flute. The b\u0026w camera image with subcarrier has its sixteen shades of grey swapped, ( a to d and d to a with alu controlled digital process). A linked audio filter alters the flute\u0027s sound. The flute has become a larger instrument. Rube Goldberg would have been proud. Lava Shifts 1979 3min. 55sec. Lava sound maps / Lava color maps. Moving over Hawaiian lava flows, Ralf Bode, my brother and cinematographer, Saturday Night Fever, Coal Miner\u0027s Daughter etc., shot the original footage with his 1/2 inch reel to reel Panasonic video portapack. The tape was then electronically reprocessed and recoded. A light intensity to control voltage interface box built by Peer Bode was used to link the image changes to audio filtering and frequency changes. The tape was digitally image processed in real time ( A to D and D to A , color subcarrier mixed and Elf2 computer ALU logic sequenced ) with a digital video buffer box built by David Jones and Peer Bode at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. The colors are artifacts of the analog signal encoding and the ALU logic sequences we learned about from Woody and Steina Vasulka. The modular audio synthesizer used was built by Richard Brewster. The colors and sounds are raw and they glow. Site(s) 1980 7min. 42sec. Real time mix of digital and analog electronic processes; digital grey level flipping, oscillator signals converted to video, two b\u0026w cameras, keyin","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":21656,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}