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William Etra

Bill Etra is the co-inventor (with Steve Rutt) of the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer (early seventies) and a Live Video pioneer. Bill is a founding member of The Kitchen.

Recent projects include work on "The New Machine", an advanced digital video synthesizer that gives the artist "total plasticity of image" in real time. Mr. Etra has held several patents, some include developments for 3-D television and text-based (versus time-code based) editing of video. Visit www.etra.com for more details.

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Bill Etra is co-inventor with Steve Rutt of the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer (early seventies) and a Live Video pioneer; he is a founding member of The Kitchen. Recent projects include work on The New Machine, an advanced digital video synthesizer described as giving the artist total plasticity of image in real time. He has held several patents, including developments for 3-D television and text-based (versus time-code based) editing of video. Further information is available at www.etra.com.

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