The Influence of Music

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 6, 2006 | permalink |  |  

This study shows that music and images can be used to create effective propaganda.

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 5, 2006 | permalink |  |  

Computer Graphics did a special issue on abstraction in film and video in 2001. That issue can be downloaded in.pdf format. [sorry dead link]

story © Michael Betancourt | published February 2, 2006 | permalink |  |  

Later this month I'm giving this Barbara Wilson Lecture on the history of visual music and abstract art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 17, 2006 | permalink |  |  

It seems like the era of low-tech video processing is upon us (again). The earliest devices were being built in the 1950s and 60s by people like Mita, and they aren't well known today. So we get a whole new set of approaches, like this one (with video) or this one where a TV has an attachement that breaks the image into derivative pixels based on what's on screen.

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 12, 2006 | permalink |  |  

Video Art in a box. This anthology looks to be quite extensive, and I'd say it's worth looking into, if it wasn't so clearly a collector's fetish item.