Paik/Abe synthesizer

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• Paik Abe Video Synthesizer Chronology

  Paik Abe Video Synthesizer added to the imaging system at the Experimental Television Center and made available through the Artist in Residence Program.

• Use of Paik Abe Video Synthesizer by Opera Today Bibliography

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

  paiknysca7576_2639.pdf

• Not Still Art Festival 2000: The Paik/Abe Synthesizer Tools

  Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe developed the Paik/Abe Synthesizer at WGBH-TV (Boston) as the first machine designed to distort existing video; Paik was an artist-in-residence and part of The Medium Is The Medium project supported by Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Artists-In-Television Project. The instrument routed seven black-and-white surveillance cameras through non-linear amplifiers into a colorizer/scan modulator and RGB-to-NTSC encoder; it debuted on WGBH Ch. 44 on August 1, 1970 in a four-hour broadcast Video Commune set to Beatles recordings. Paik later built additional synthesizers for the Experimental Television Workshop and WNET; the original is exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bremen in a frame of vintage televisions showing dates of production.

• The Paik Abe Video Synthesizer Manual Bibliography

  A description of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer in the Artist in Residence studio at the Experimental Television Center (Binghamton).

• Paik-Abe Vieo Synthesizer: as freely as Picasso, as colorfully as Renoir Bibliography

  Abe Video Synthesizer Restoration Project. Includes schematic diagrams of the tool, description of how the Paik Abe works and photographs of the restoration.