“Woody Vašulka, to whom, along with Steina and Peter Weibel, most of the credit for the overall design and execution of MindFrames should be acknowledged, initiated the project based on three ideas: 1) that the entire exhibition be presented in a digital format, which is to say that all works made on film and video should be transferred or translated into computer code, 2) that it should demonstrate that such an exhibition could be controlled from a distant location, and 3) that the exhibition could be simultaneously disseminated worldwide, in whole or in part, as a touring show or collaborative effort. These goals were wide-ranging, and the flexibility of a new technological system was required. This was accomplished with the assistance of Robert O’Kane – a former student of Peter Weibel at the CMS in Buffalo and now UNIX systems administrator at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne – who provided exceptional technical expertise by employing a capacious server and database and a particular encoding system similar to the one utilized in the manufacture of DVDs (although DVD technology was not the mode of presentation). There was only the most insignificant loss of image quality. Although a few compromises to this all-encompassing approach had to be made with regard to the actual inclusion of film projection, MindFrames was, by and large a film and video show made manifest by other means.”