Vašulka Mediascape

“When setting up a system you can simply observe it … adjust it.”

“It [working with video] was an experiment quite unlike film. When setting up a system you can simply observe it, just walk around and, from time-to-time, adjust it. You begin to have the feeling that another person is in the room or some kind of an organism which has its own life. So, what we call oscillators or waveform generators, I accepted and recognized as a part of nature. Oscillators, as tools, do not have to be perceived purely as man-made boxes. There are a lot of oscillating events in nature, such as wind blowing through deserts and forming highly organized patterns in the sand, or the ocean performing its cyclical stream actions.”

Woody Vašulka, “Five Lectures” (1976), in Buffalo Heads, Woody Vašulka & Peter Weibel, eds, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008).