Sandin, Dan

Conversational Process: Feedback Loops Bibliography

philosophy of the feedback loop for information processing and learning. Real time information processing and stored time information processing. Relationship to the Image Processor

Conversational Process: Phil Morton's Teck Art Bibliography

Phil Morton was head of the video area at Chicago Circle Campus and founded the Video Data Bank. Class notes.

Description of the early Image Processor, excerpted from the Macro Proto Proposal Tools

The image processor was constructed under a grant for innovation in undergraduate program development at U.I.C.C. (University of Illinois at Chicago Circle) and is partially completed but functioning; its explicit instruction addresses perceptual learning of two-dimensional kinetic images and its implicit content embodies linear analogue generalized machines and video technology. It accepts moving images from television cameras, film trains or video tape recorders and routes them through modules that modify and combine images; it has operated about four months and was introduced to about seven people, with formal curriculum introduction planned for this fall.

Eigenwelt Der Apparate-Welt, Pioneers of Electronic Art: Dan Sandin, IP (Analog Image Processor), 1972 Bibliography

Eigenwelt Der Apparate-Welt, Pioneers of Electronic Art: Dan Sandin, IP (Analog Image Processor), 1972. Introduction by Woody Vasulka. Article includes a brief biography, Sandin's Distribution Religion, and description of the Image Processor (IP). Institution/Organizer: Ars Electronica Curator(s): V…

From the Distribution Religion - Notes on the Aesthetic of Copying an Image Processor Collections

Phil Morton, identified here as the first copier of an Image Processor, offers practical notes for future copiers; he endorses faithful copying of Dan Sandin's Image Processor (I-P) and regards copying as a valid method for learning. He warns against unauthorized modifications that may render replicas incompatible with Sandin's evolutionary I-P design and advises consulting Dan and $PENDing his time for fixes, suggesting a year of copying practice before building an Image Processor.

In Consecration of New Space Tools

Dan Sandin describes the Image Processor (I-P) as a patch programmable general purpose analog computer for real-time video image processing which he designed and built; it accepts television camera, film chain and videotape inputs, routes images through modular processors to monitors or tape and can accept external biological and environmental sensor signals. Jim Weisman describes the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer as a colorizing device accepting 14 inputs and mixing up to seven for monitor display or videotape. Philip Lee Morton states Video E/S is authorized under the Illinois Retailers' Occupation Tax Act to sell tangible personal property at retail, that the registration covers the Use Tax Act and related service tax acts, cites #188-411-5, and defines E/S as a compound of two words beginning with E and S.

Sandin Image Processor 1971-1973 Bibliography

Description of the Sandin Image Processor

Sandin Image Processor Presently Optimized Bibliography

Schematics and Instructions for Sandin Image Processor Bibliography

Sippel Sandin schematics in folders. In Box 233.

Some Organizing Principles in Man Machine Interaction Bibliography

The Macro Proto Proposal Tools

Daniel Sandin's early draft grant proposal advocates developing educational machines and interfaces; he compares public-school capitalization ($10 per participant) with modern communication-company capitalization ($20,000 per worker) and argues for economic efficiency through appropriate technology. He discusses transfer of course content to machines and the loss of incidental learning, the advent and uses of generalized machines including pencils, television and general-purpose digital computers, and the necessity of teaching generalized-machine use. He emphasizes perceptual learning, cites Rudolf Arnheim and the Bauhaus Institute of Design, and stresses man-machine feedback control and perceptually rich input-output interfaces.

Woody Vasulka Interviews Dan Sandin Bibliography

Created with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Experimental TV Center in collaboration with the Vasulkas, c 1977. The research project concerned the design and creation of electronic moving-image instruments by independent artists and engineers, and the place of this work withi…