Impakt Works: Bas van Koolwijk, Synchronator - a video and audio research project
Ever since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion of the normal TV scan pattern, others utilize a Cathode Ray Tube as if it were an oscilloscope screen.
To find out whether digital means could help make more use of the characteristic visual qualities of such techniques, video artist Bas van Koolwijk has invited sound artist Gert-Jan Prins to conduct collaborative experiments with the aim of getting merged video and audio signals accepted by current video equipment.
Last year both artists presented their individual AV performances for the 'techno²' events at the Dutch Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.
Although van Koolwijk worked with digital equipment and Prins with analogue electronics, there were striking similarities between their contributions. Both seemed to sneer at the technical boundaries of the video signal and were used an audiovisual vocabulary with an aesthetics 'natural' only to the machines with which it was produced.
During their working period within the framework of 'Impakt Works', a laboratory will be arranged in the Impakt building. Van Koolwijk and Prins will share their common technical knowledge with that of others in order to tackle the technical problems concerning the recording of complicated or distorted video and audio signals.
Resulting video and audio materials will be used to create a new video. An audio-visual live performance originating from the planned experiments will be presented at the end of the residence.
In May a publicly accessible workshop and presentations by Koolwijk, Prins and related artists are to take place.
The workshop is focused on the development of an AV improvisational performance. The use of interfaces, videotronics, video/audio software and improvisation in electronic music will be examined.
A number of presentations and screenings will examine some first-rate examples of electronic culture in the form of audio related pieces of video art.
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