Bringing Video Art to the TV Screens

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• Direct Video: Electronic Artform for Color Television Tools

  In 1970 Stephen Beck received a grant to develop the Direct Video Synthesizer for the National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV in San Francisco. He designed and built the synthesizer with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the prototype comprises circuit and control modules that operate with the scanned video raster, accept sync and drive pulses, and output parallel RGBY for NTSC color. Beck outlines an aesthetic model of form, motion, texture and color and a technical mapping using pulse-width modulation, waveshaping and RGB distribution.

• Stephen Beck Chronology

  Stephen Beck, San Francisco, builds Direct Video Synthesizer 1, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

• Direct Video: Electronic Artform for Color Television Bibliography

  Direct Video: Electronic Artform for Color Television by Stephen Beck. Paragraphs follow: Introduction, Genesis of the Direct Video Synthesizer, and Technical Outline of the Synthesizer.

• New York State Council on the Arts Proposal: Further Development of the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer Bibliography

  paiknysca7576_2639.pdf

• Has TV Finally Become An Art? Bibliography

  Has TV Finally Become An Art? National Center for Experiments in Television, and artists Don Hallock and the Videola. Stephen Beck and William Roarty works using the Videola.

• The Movement Within: Images Created on a Video Synthesizer Bibliography