Funtime at the Vasulkas (2006)

A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool Between 1976 and 1980 Woody and Schier designed a prototype device the Vasulka Imaging System or Digital Image Articulator It was one of the first digital audiovisual tools to generate image algorithms and convert them to an analog signal In the 1970s and 1980s the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo became one of these places of teaching and mediating in the area of Media Art developing into what was perhaps to the most influential school for media in the twentieth century Teaching there under the leadership of the founder Gerald OGrady were the meanwhile canonized structuralist avantgarde filmmakers Hollis Frampton Tony Conrad and Paul Sharits documentary filmmaker James Blue video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel