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The Movement Within: Images Created on a Video Synthesizer

Author
Woody Vasulka
Publication
Afterimage
Date
December 1979
Volume
4
Issue
12
ETC archive
ETC0913
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Woody Vasulka. The Movement Within: Images Created on a Video Synthesizer. Afterimage. vol. 4, no. 12. December 1979.

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