The Video Synthesizer. Exploring a Lost History of Electronic Animation

A universe of colourful and lively rhythmic forms created using a pioneering combination of traditional animation and electronic images from a specially designed oscilloscope.

A block of films showing some of the earliest examples of video synthesis using analogue computers, in addition to some early examples of electronically designed and animated characters.

A union of two artists and their two mediums of expression: celluloid film and synthesized video. A deeply psychedelic and meditative cycle of transformations in the weightlessness of light.

An experiment to “explore the control of video images by the use of physiological signals” using the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer and a biomedical transmitter placed over Louise's heart.

In the first ever use of the Scanimate video synth in Japan, Matsumoto takes the Mona Lisa on a journey through surreal landscapes, animating her into a shimmering psychedelic vision.

Originally made as an anti-drug film for TV, Lehman takes us on a trippy ride through day-glo colours and pop-art visuals, all melted together with the Scanimate video synthesizer.

Sandin introduces his Image Processor (IP), a modular video synthesizer that he invented, talking about its design and demonstrating some of its hallucinatory colours and effects.

Sykes wrangles the abstract into the familiar, bending the raw colours and shapes of the Sandin Image Processor into a stream of figures that seem to emanate from some ancient subconscious.

A study on texture, technology, form and the body. A video camera hallucinates as it tracks the artist through a series of experiments, recreating reality as a vibrating electronic mesh.

A dream team of talented artist engineers takes us on a psychedelic drift through synthesized new age landscapes made of vapourwave colours and swirling, fractal-like shapes.

A glimpse of the Outer Space Visual Communicator (OVC); a video effects, mixing and projection system used by the Sun Ra Arkestra to “visualize soundwaves” for their cosmic stage shows.