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Interview
with Eric Siegel by Jud Yalkut (1970) Radical Software, vol. 1, no. 2, 1970 In this extensive interview Siegel discusses how he began working with video and speculates on the future of video art. He states that he is appalled by the American television of the time and is concerned about the “mind pollution” that is the effect of commercial TV. According to Siegel, if artists could get access to the network and reach the whole country there could be a real change in the way people think. Siegel discusses his goals for the video synthesizer that he is designing, which will enable him to create live video broadcasts to music. |
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Interview
with Eric Siegel by Jud Yalkut (1973) Pioneers of Electronic Art, Ars Electronica, 1992 (Also in Yalkut’s Electronic Zen: The Alternate Video Generation, “The new video abstractionists,” unpublished) This 1973 interview with Eric Siegel by Jud Yalkut was published in the 1992 catalogue for Ars Electronica’s Pioneers of Electronic Art. It includes a foreword by Woody Vasulka and a 1992 statement by Siegel. In the interview with Yalkut, Siegel discusses his recently developed Video Chrominance Synthesizer and Electronic Video Synthesizer. Siegel also presents his utopian idea of using the video synthesizer to transmit positive energy. With this technology, he states, people who have advanced to “higher levels of consciousness” can convey their experiences to people in their homes watching TV. |
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Electronic Video Synthesizer: Interview with Eric Siegel by Jud Yalkut
(1970-73) Published in Ohio Media, Dayton, Ohio, Vol. 1, No. 2/3, December 1977/January 1978. Also in Electronic Zen, 1984 (unpublished) This article is compiled from two interviews that Jud Yalkut made with Eric Siegel in the early 70s. The first was a TV interview broadcast on WNET/13, New York, in 1970. The second was a radio interview broadcast on WBAI, New York, in 1973. The text features Siegel’s technical descriptions of how the Electronic Video Synthesizer (EVS) functions, as well as its use as a means of altering consciousness. Siegel states that the “EVS is the instrument of the New Television” which “will be used as a means of self-expression and a way for constructive meditation, of a person communicating with his own inner self.” In the interviews Siegel explains his idea of using the video synthesizer to transmit positive energy, stating that with this technique people who have advanced to “higher levels of consciousness” can convey their experiences to people in their homes watching TV. |
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Statement:
Eric Siegel (2001) Written for the Kinetic History project on the occasion of EAI’s 30th anniversary in 2001, this text by Siegel traces his fascination with the potential of electronics and video equipment, beginning with his childhood. Siegel discusses the experiments in video feedback that resulted in the development of his pioneering piece Psychedelevision in Color, which led to his meeting Howard Wise and his inclusion in the groundbreaking 1969 exhibition TV as a Creative Medium. Also charting the genesis of the seminal publication Radical Software, Siegel concludes that the show at Wise’s gallery galvanized an alternative television or video movement.
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