Woody: “With Steina, we both are now struggling with a question how to bring ourselves to the level of understanding of our new set of tools, how to assume a certain level of individual control over the machine assisted strategies of making art. We face a task of demystifying the structure of languages as well, and bring those languages and the tools together in parallel, to the hands of individual artists. In this short history of people and the computer, there has always been a split between those who understood and knew and those who did not. And this somewhat antagonistic relationship between “them” versus “us” is something which we did not experience in the [analog] video art making community. Somehow we learned together. In the analog making of images and sounds, the barrier did not exist. But once we turned to the computer, overnight we lost our independence. It is taking a disproportional time to personalize this new tool, the computer.”