The term image processing, as it is used throughout blog.lumpybanger, refers to a video art movement where artists worked with custom image processing tools to create personal videos.
This blog will be about my work, work that came out of image processing, as well as documentation of my studio, and some of the tools that were built.
The Experimental TV Center (ETC) was founded in 1971 by Ralph Hocking. It was a place where video artists would travel to spend 3 to 5 days at a time working with the assembled hybrid analog and digital image and sound processors, mostly custom constructed for and by artists. It should be noted that after 40 years the ETC has announced it’s closing.
I went to Binghamton University in 1976 and studied video with Ralph Hocking in the Cinema Department. Ralph introduced me to image processing and the ETC. In 1981, I became one of the local artists-in-residence at the ETC. I also worked for both the ETC and for Dave Jones’ Design Lab in Owego, NY, where I built many of the image processors designed by Jones and used by ETC studio artists for over twenty five years.
It’s a pity E.T.C. is closing its doors. For years I was wanting to do a residence there, but bad luck for my part it never happened and seems that never will happen. Cheers.
Andres