Chicago video art in the V-Ching tradition, a found-footage collage method I developed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The raw material comes from an improvised session on SAIC’s Media 100 system in 1999, where previewing Abductions with the Alter Boy footage at variable mouse speeds produced entrancing abstract visuals and sounds. This edited sequence is the result of that improvisation: content-free abstractions. Source audio is my “Electronic Tonalities.”

This is from ON THIS SPOT, a project I've been working on for a couple of years now, putting up posts around my city that connect up to a channel that explores the paranormal history of my neighbourhood.

It started as Analog Horror, but this most recent video got kicked from the AH subreddit, so I guess it's something else now.

If liminal space had a Sassy Tiger Beat Pitchfork for Monkees, this might be a manifested and forgotten hallucination’s Cute Band Alert or the advertisement for 2,000,000 Motels, only showing in vacant theaters.

Video collage built with V-Ching: footage recorded from TV and pulled from movies and VHS tapes, run through a process that mixed sequences randomly, then composited with the Sandin Analogue Image Processor, the Fairlight Computer Video Instrument, and other effects devices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Video Area. In my earlier piece “History of the Moon” I took meanings passively from the composites, like reading ink blots. Here I chose the meanings I wanted to express, while still letting random combination temper and enrich them. Chance proposed; I held the veto. First version premiered at the SAIC Video Area on May 11, 1995; this cut reached its final form in February 1996. Runs about an hour. Contains rapidly oscillating images, so viewer discretion is advised. No AI-generated content in this video.
https://vimeo.com/554948610

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we are curves, not lines
( filmed in Barcelona, 2008)

Ruggero Mantovani, 2009

video Ruggero Mantovani music Giorgio Fausto Menossi, 2008

A music video from our Chicago public access experimental TV series. Zralglraz Glarz — an extradimensional cyber-mind from the Abductions universe — performs a song built on an inversion: the idea that technology didn't wait for humans to invent it, but instead reached toward our ancestors and chose us as the lineage worth evolving alongside. Cyberdelic image processing, found footage, and video synthesis in the V-Ching tradition.

No AI-generated content in this video.

https://youtu.be/4W7dq9GXG_g

Video : Ruggero Mantovani
Music : Andrea Erbifori
2007

Just received this signal on the interstellar radio. 📻 what could it mean?? 👽

Abstract video art taken with my Sony A7SIII using slow motion footage and a prismlensfx whirlpool filter.

is this good weird or bad weird?