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The mission was transmission of knowledge

Woody: “We all engaged in explanations. We wanted to know how to make it make sense, to develop a vocabulary, we wanted to formulate it. There were cliches about information at this time … Both of our upbringings are socialist and concerned with knowledge. We were interested in the transmission of knowledge from one place to another: that was the mission of the time. The mission was not to compete with paintings, it was to get this knowledge and bring it to people … ”

Chris Hill, “Interview with Woody Vašulka” (1992) in The Squealer, Buffalo, New York (1995); link: https://vasulka.org/archive/4-25/Squealer(5097).pdf.