Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback 

“Noise-driven spatial structures in a relaxation oscillator” sounds like every good drug trip

Finally a documentary about the creation of the universe.

I've been dabbling with this stuff since art school in the 70's and I've found there's a huge difference in the effects that different camera-monitor combinations can create. I was able to get things with VHS and tube monitors that I can't get with the digital equipment now (and vice-versa). Also, if you mount the camera you'll get more-controlled, steady images, but not nearly as creative as hand-held can produce by moving through different parts of the image. But a hand-held feed-back loop is an extremely sensitive thing to maintain and the micro-panning required takes the patience and control of a Zen master.

This is nothing less than an expression of how consciousness creates EVERYTHING simply by the shifting of focus back onto itself.

I'm so relaxed watching this...

The pattern at 4:40 reminds me of the educational video about how to turn a sphere inside out

15 minutes not wasted.

The sound adds a whole new level to these images

after watching this i'm not sure if i'm still alive tbh

Now we need to get hold of the original tapes and do a proper 60fps transfer in 720p

Aside from smooth camera control, distance from the monitor, zoom, and rotation are all important. Ideally, the camera should keep a dead-center aim while being able to rotate vertically 360 degrees. At 180 degrees, every other signal is upside down and its this bouncing back and forth to infinity that generates patterns. Just like you'd draw a star, that angle makes stars. But you get the same sequence of patterns in reverse order in the up-swing from 180-360. If you split the feed into several projectors projecting images close together and film it, the images begin to work as one.

I wish there were a instructional portion the video. My soldering iron would already be warming up.

That must have been fun, Jim, and a lot of work!

a video camera views its monitor and gains sentience

This is what happens when you leave my teenage self alone with the video camera. The subsequent LSD trips are enigmatic.

Am I crazy for thinking this is kind of profound?

Awesome thanks for sharing.

I like your style.

I'd love a umatic copy, but this deserves a wider-spread VHS release, too. Calling Basement Labs......

Doing this is pretty easy. It's just a feedback loop. I used to do this in 1991 or 1992 with a small handheld camcorcder hooked up to the input on my tv. Started recording it one night, and created some amazing videos(they are around somewhere on an old hi8 videotape). Set them to music, showed some friends in college how to do it and never really thought about it again till tonight.

May I use some of the footage in this video?

This is really interesting. Do you have any information about the music at all?

somebody knows how to get one of the original tape?

Is it possible to create life in a two-dimensional world with this method?

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Mesmerizing effects! Is this how emergence will raise?

tfw this discarded video footage actually becomes eventually the bedrock of the Grand Unifying Theory of Everything.

wasted 15 minutes 33 seconds of my glasses trying to find my life after watching me watching this in a video

Looks like a video camera version of a spirograph.

does someone know the name of the track by minute 4:14

Would it be accurate to describe this system as a kind of analog computer?

who made the music? this is pure beauty

I created some feedback that looked a lot like the virus like imagery in yellow in the middle of this video (I have hours of it and I still have never seen anything like it. Also not sure how you'd make it in effects programs. It could be done, but it would take forever). You had to rotate the camera to get it moving, which was pretty surreal. it was very weird getting something so organic out of a television and a video camera, it was kind of creepy as if something was attempting to exit the electronics. Ironically, as cameras and televisions both advanced, the feedback changed, but mostly got less interesting, and less stable (meaning the gear was more stable at wiping out abberations). I found some interesting combinations with projectors, but can't really reveal what I was doing but it was nuts. Plus not every camera and every tv worked either. There were specific brands that worked, and as I said, by the mid 90s, the gear changed the look and then stopped generating it overall. However, there is a guy posting on RU-vid who has been using more recent video mixers, and getting some wild results.

And when the universe looks at itself too closely, all it sees is quantum foam.

How did you create stable objects whenever I've tried it all goes mental fast

Found this via Andrés Gómez’ presentation on the fresh “Symmetry Theory of Valence”, attempting to explain why these patterns feels so good: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tSPZ4xt5f2k.html

Been experimenting with video feedback for a few years now,different cameras different screens. Can tell you there is a deeper "something" going on . Obvious "sacred" symbols will return again and again.. Landscapes and clouds all kinds of recognisable terrain and topologies

Hello

Shazam sends me to a rapper that sampled the music, not the actual music? Can someone make a track listing of these tunes? I feel like Steve Roach is in there somewhere?

Winamp visualizations but they're analog.

Hi man

This is gold! Thinking about all the Math comments...Math is limited, as it is a human expression. Mathematical solvers, derivatives, etc. can only ever propagate a partial of the full construct.

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