RYRAL – Tom DeFanti, Phil Morton, Dan Sandin and Bob Snyder (1976)

RYRAL is a realtime audio video performance by Tom DeFanti (creating computer animation with the GRaphics Symbiosis System or GRASS), Phil Morton (“up in the kitchen keepin’ track”), Dan Sandin (processing video with a Sandin Image Processor), Bob Snyder (performing experimental electronic music on an analog EMU synthesizer) and an uncredited dancer. This Media Art project was created and performed in April 1976 at the second Electronic Visualization Event (EVE II) in Chicago. EVE II took place at The University of Illinois Chicago.

Documentation of the performance was later exhibited by Diane Kirkpatrick in her exhibition Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945-1978 at The University of Michigan Museum of Art March 17 – April 23 1978.

COPY-IT-RIGHT! Selections from The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive

COPY-IT-RIGHT Selections from the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive (intro)

On February 15 2007 the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive; Film, Video & New Media Department; Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago presented “COPY-IT-RIGHT! Selections from The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive”. The program included excerpts from Morton’s “General Motors” and the complete works of “Program # 9 (Amateur TV)” by Morton and Jane Veeder and “SAIC Memo” by Morton. This introduction features Amy Beste and jonCates introducing the evening’s screening program.