“Artists working directly with the technologically-charged environment of this time-based medium generated a discourse celebrating the particular processes of electronic image- construction. The video camera transforms light and sound information into the video and audio signals as waveform, frequency and voltage, which can be displayed on a cathode ray tube – a television monitor – or magnetically encoded and stored on videotape. Woody and Steina Vašulka articulated their video project in 1975 as primarily a "didactic" one, an inquiry into developing a "vocabulary" of electronic procedures unique to the construction of a "time/energy object." During the early 1970s, such artistic research into interfaced electronic tools and the new images produced was understood to be the development of a fundamental electronic lexicon, long before similar constructions would assume the role of a pre-programmed stylistic embellishment, the television industry's menu of ‘special effects.’”