“Arnold Dreyblatt: So he [Woody] questioned ‘what is it? And how did it begin? And what are its maybe predecessors?’ - because it was this new medium. In some ways, you could say he was prepared for it. As you know, he had some electronics background, he was a tinkerer, and he also had a music background (jazz). But also, of course his film background, etc. I mean, he was definitely this guy that could take things apart with his hands and analyze it. But there was also a sense of discovery as a new beginning. They felt that not only did they discover aspects of this medium that they were unprepared for, but somehow they needed to, or especially he needed to, try to explain it in some way.”

Chris Hill & Arnold Dreyblatt, “Interview with Arnold Dreyblatt regarding Steina and Woody Vašulka and their archiving commitments and practices,” (2024)

link: https://vkba.vasulkakitchen.org/cs/interview-with-arnold-dreyblatt