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DanSandin.interview

!DAN SANDIN!

since the late 1960's Dan Sandin has developed artware systems
integrating digitial + analog computers, customized circuits,
home{brewed|built}-hardware, video games + virtualReality.

Sandin, a professor @ the University of Illinois at Chicago, founded
the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL), created the Sandin Image
Processor (I.P.), developed the CAVE virtual reality (VR) system +
various other [artware systems/technologies/projects/pieces]. Dan
Sandin's Image Processor (built from 1971 - 1973) offered artists
unprecedented abilities to [create/control/affect/transform] video +
audio data, enabling live audio video performances that literally set
the stage for current realtime audio video art praxis. to facilitate
the open release of the plans for the Image Processor as an
[artware/system/toolset], Sandin + Phil Morton created the Distribution
Religion. as a predecessor to the open source movement in the tradition
of free software, this approach allowed artists to engage with these
hardware systems + continues to [interest/inspire]
[artisits/developers]. in order to honor the innovative {recent
futures|parallel hystories} of the Image Processor + the Distribution
Religion, criticalartware has converted the deadTree Distribution
Religion into a single PDF file + a web-based version, for release to
the {criticalartware} community.

criticalartware interviews Dan Sandin, [discussing/illuminating] the
community + development of the early moments of video art in Chicago,
artware, performing live audio video, virtual reality, open source,
righteous NTSC outputs, the video revolution + the changes +
similarities that [bridge/differentiate] then && now. criticalartware
freely offers this interview as {text|audio|video} data to be
downloaded via the interweb + exchanged as shared cultural resources.

art.hystoricalUpdate now available:

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