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Undertecknad bekraftar harmed, att jag i april 1966 sasom teknisk

ledare fdr scannertekniken pa SR konsulterades av konstnarerna

Ture Sjolander / Bror Wikstrom.

Vid detta 'tillfalle f6reslog jag de tekniska losningarna for

bearbetandet av ett program kallat "Time", enligt herrarna TS/BW:s

intentioner.

Bearbetningen i scanner och telefilmanlaggningen, som avsig bl.a .

geometrisk-distorsion och kontrastfdrandring, utfordes i samarbete

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I have been asked by our International Bureau to inform you on aTV program called 11 1Aonulnent" made in 1968 .

As you may understand it is rather difficult to remember in detailwhat technical manipulations that %las made in this program, firstbecause it was several years ago and second that we made a number cprogrammes using this kind of technique during 67-68.The only t:ritten information obtainable is a small book called MON1MGNT and the mgazine Industria June -68 (cover and sides 56-60).Unforunately I don't knc .l the whereabouts of the artists involved,ut I remember that paintings and posters wens made and that there

an exihibition.

Technically we worked in two lines : geometric distortion on thescanning raster by feeding different rjaveforms to the scanning coilvideodistortion by using various filters in the noneolnposit video-signal . (This technique was used succesfully in colour in a programcalled "Space in the brain" also made in -68).

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Datakraften anvands idag i de mest ovantade samman-hang, och har t.ex . lett till nya och intressanta relationermellan konst och teknologi . Under det nyliga TM-semina-riet (med temat ))Bilderv>) visades en del prov pa konst sourutforts med hjalp av datorer .

Dels visades ett antal grafiska blad i urval av konstnarernaBror Wikstrom och Sven Hoglund, delar av en svensk-fransk vandringsutstallning kallad »Datom och Konstna-

rem) (den premiarvisades pa Centre Culturel Suedois i Parisoch har sedan tumerat i Frankrike och Sverige) . Huvud-delen bestar av grafik, malningar och fotomontage . Darfinns ocksa en skulptur i rostfritt stal (Ikaros 10-S) somutforts av konstnarerna Kammere-Luka och Kempf i Bel-fort-gruppen med hjalp av en CDC-dator . Tredimensionel-la objekt kan fran ett dataprogram framstallas direkt medhjalp av en numeriskt styrd maskin . Skapandeprocessen,fran ide till fardigt verk, blir pa sd satt helt automatiserad .

Sven Hoglund:Expanded Room 1.

Bror Wikstrom :Deformed Spiral.

Deis visades under TM-seminariet ocksa tva datahologramframstallda av Bror Wikstrom och Sven H6glund, fram-stallda medelst dataprogrammerat skissmaterial hos Elek-tronmusikstudion (EMS) i Stockholm och tillverkade i enspecialbyggd optisk laserprinter hos Multiplex Corp., 454Shotwell St., San Fransisco, California 94110 . Systemet,s.k . multiplexhologram, har utvecklats av Lloyd Crossoch ger ett r6rligt hologram med 120 eller 360 graderstittvinkel . Sadana tillverkas nu pa industriell/kommersiellbasis (ett 120 graders hologram kostar ca 150 dollar attframstalla) .

Multiplex optiskaprinter som medlaserljus omvand-Jarde 1.080 film-rutorna till spalt-hologram pd engenomskinlig cyl-indrisk plastfilm.

Sd hdr gdr det till att sfilmavett multiplex-hologram .

Objektet placeras pd en roterandeplattform 11 varv pd 4S sekunderl

Wikstrom/H6glund arbetar pa att forsoka fomya hologra-fins anvandning inom det fria bildskapandet, dar en avbegransningarna varit att frigora sig fran det strikt foto-grafiska avbildandet (35 mm filmkamera och sv/v-filmanvandes vid registreringen) . Det inns fortfarande vissaformatbegransningar och optiska problem som mastel6sas, och Lloyd Cross arbetar pa att vidareutvecklalaserprintern for att fa storre upplosning och hogre bril-jans i bilden . Wikstrom/Hoglunds nasta projekt gar ut paatt utf6ra var sin rorlig, tredimensionell bild/ljud-pelare,dar Ijudet skall framstallas fran samma dataprogramunder-lag som bilden och utgora en syntetisk mediaenhet .

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Bror WikstromRiddarg . 611435 StockholmSWEDENrax : 46 8 61.13552

Dear Bror Wikstrom,

THE VASULKAS, INC .100 ROUTE 6

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 87501TEL . (505) 471-7181/FAX . (505) 473-0614

Thank you very much for you fax . We greatly appreciate thesearching through history you have done on our behalf .

We wouldlove to see the tape you mention that appeared on Swedishtelevision . Is it possible to have the tape on NTSC? The focusof this exhibition is the technology from 1965-75, so we would bevery interested in any documentation you may have about anyelectronic instruments you and Sjolander used to create theimages . Attached is a short description of the exhibition foryour information .

Please excuse my delay in responding to you . Steina Vasulkahas been in Helsinki and Holland, and is now in Germany ; WoodyVasulka is in San Francisco .

Regards,

Malin WilsonCo-ordinator

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AM 27, 1992

Dear MaUn Wilson,

Please find enclosed a translation of an article in the Swedish newspaperDagens Nyheter of August 29, 1966.

Further material will be sent on "Time" and a video cassette will be sent in theAmerican VCR-system NTSE .

My best regards,

Katarina Jones on behalf ofBror Wkstr6m

MoLin WilsonThe Vasulkas, Inc100 Route 6Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501USA

N "exposes" the present In electronic pictures during the jazz festival

- We want to expose, not call off'.So the artists Ture Sjolander and 8ror Wikstrom say, of current interest as theyare for the coming jazz festival within the Festival of Stockholm. Some timeduring the three days of the jazz festival (Sept 16-18) the two pictureexperimenters' new film is shown on TV. It is ready made for TV with theapparatus of the TV and with the basic function of the TV before one's sight.

Some year ago Sj6londer-Wikstrom brought about a sensation by

exposing pictures on ad-palings In Stockholm . If you had something todisplay you shouldn't fence It in, neither In the museums nor among theprivate collectors, but expose it where people are to be found, theythought. So consequently they have chosen the biggest medium ofcommunication, TV, for their latest exhibition.

SJ$Ionder-Wkstrom are fully conscious of the topicalness of today,another reason for choosing TV. What else can be more actual than to

demonstrate the formal possibilities of TV, and what else can be more

actual than to mirror the present while you are demonstrating these formal

possibilities?

"Scanner" re-Interprets

"Time" is the name of the exhibition, which is based upon variousactualities that Sjolander-Wikstrom have come across during the spring, forInstance "Gemini" and foetal-pictures. The main part is taken up by the verymuch to the fore avant-garde jazz-musician Don Cherry and his quintet atthe Golden Circle.

The pictures are run through a specially built "scanner", an apparatusthat in the ordinary cases Is producing 'real' pictures, but which in thissensitized state is "re-interpreting" what the camera has seen, and thus iscreating new pictures . The technicians and the artists have decided whatthe apparatus looks like, and the apparatus has decided what the pictureslook like .

The present is reflected

Consequently the couple Sj6londer-Wikstrom is demonstrating aphenomenon that is very much up to date just now, the electronic machine-

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picture, The Korean Nam June Poik is for the moment sitting at the radio andis working with similar filings. He will show his result at the festival of Fylkingen"Visions of the present" . But this will take place one week after SJ6landerWikstrOms' demonstration on TV. (Sic! The translator's comm.)

Ture SjOlonder and Bror Wikstr6m hold that they by "Time` haveaccomplished a total reflection of the present, Novelties and actualitieshave been interpreted by on apparatus that

s is a novelty and anactuality. A vision of the present. Their Ideas they spread in different gujseslike rings on the water. "Time" will be shown at ABF (The Workers' Federationof Culture) during the festival, fleshes of the film - made on silk-screen - will be

exposed, and 300 such pictures have already been sold to Multiart, thedarling of Kristion Romore, Finally a summary of the film will be edited inbook-form very soon. And then, furthermore, Sjbander-Wlkstr6m arenegotiating just now about contributing at the festival which the Americans of"Fylkingen" are planning in New York in October. Possibly parts of "Time" aregoing to be transmitted by satellite.

Translation : Olov Wistram/kj

This article was originally published in Dogens Nyheter 29/8 1966.

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Fiir "got Ar :edam salida Sjt3.lander-Wickstr+gm 4111 aped senss-tfon Senom att stAila ut blider pisnnonsplauk' I Stockholm. Hadssmart aigonting amt visaupp, mi bar-

" de saaA Into stiaga in det i museerellar'bom prlvataaartlare Wan stillsut dot d"sr folk irons, tyckta de.Nu bar do ahtsi valt det storatskocntnunikattonmedlat, TV, for sinaamasla utsiilining.Sjolander-WIckstram it aktuali-

Istamedvotna, ytierligare eat skitf6r TV Vad tan vara mer aktuelltin amt visa DS TV:s formella n+Oj-11gheter, ach ved ken vary merattuallt IEn sit *peg]* nuet nirman demonatrerar dens, formellasaojllghetar!

--- Vl Till stalia ut, jare stills 1111SL siger konsmirerna Ture Sjdlander Itch Bgor Wicdrstran% at-

tuck under den scundande .Imfestivalen 1 Stockholm, FesrspeLNAgon gang . under jazzfestlyalens are dagar (1b--18 sepc) visisde to bijdexperimentaterernas npa film 1 TV. Den St gjord OrTV lned TV:s apparatus och med TV:s grundfttnktion f6r fonem

aktuelle avaat,gardefaamnmikersrDon Cherry ach hams kvintatt phtsy1lemeCirkela

Blldersta bar k6rts genom en ape.clalbyggd "scanner", an apparstmm t vanAgs fall producerar "rik-tiga" blider. men som I'detta pre- .parerade WhUnd "omtolkar" vedkameran set, och skapar nyablider.Teknlkerna och konslnkerna furbeatimt hur apparaten stall me ut,'apparateu bar best1mt hut blider-~no skill se ut.

Nuet speglasDomed demonstrerar paret Sjb-

lander-Wlckshiium an 16reteelse somit mycket aktuell I dagarns: den'elektrondska asasklabilden; Korea-

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festivalSj6lander-Wiekstrom stoat pi un- . "Visioner av nuet". Men det blirder Aran. lex "Geralni". och fan-

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eater Sjolander.Wick-;, terbllder. Ituvuddelen upptmx den

strdms demonstration I TV.

Eit exempel pd btrr de brorbeyads errkeronbildemn i'Time" tan is

Tura Sjdlander och Bror Wick-'-strum menar sig med "Time" hWgjort era totalspegling av nuet. Hy-heter ach ektualiteter bar tolkatsav an apparat earn i sJg it en ny-het ach aktualitet. En vision avDuet. Sina Wer sprider do *amringer pi vallnet i otika skepnader."Time" kommer amt visas pi ARF

under festivalen, bildor ur fiimen- gjorda pi allksrreen - stallstMs ut och 300 Adam her stif is,Ell ldultikonst, Kristian Romaresskbtebam. Slutilgen kommer eatlkoompendium av filmen ut I bok-form saneka snort.

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Och a& idihandlmr Sjblander-Wickstrem fn am snedverken i denfestival mom "Fylkingens amerikm-ner ylonerar I New York I oktober .Eventuellt bverrors delar ov "Time"via satellit.

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Rror f1" rkstri>m : TI'-gild.

En stillsam kon strabotorilken liten vacker bli mil-ning, utbrast tavelvannen .

- Ursakta mig, men det it fak-tiskt ex fotografi av min munhijla,tillstod konstnaren `atillsamt- Det har ar 'fotografi pi nytt

salt . fastslog fotovannen .- Nej. det har ar ett silkscreen-

tryck . mist: jag bekanna, inskbtkonstnaren .- Som tavelvisning ar det har

verkligen originellt, konstaterade ut-staliningsvannen .- Fdrlat, men det har ar ingen

tavelvisning . Det ar en TV-utsind-ning. infdll konstnaren .

f ovanstiende, bara till cn del fin-gerade replikskifte ar konstv!irensamme . medan bans diskuss+onspart-ner skiftar. Sarntaien utspelsldes paGalkri 'Maxim, dir man fdlj..ktligenjtgst nu kan ft en lika ovanlig sarplarorik lektion i att fbrflvtta sigmycket tunn is i friiga om -'kon.,V

Utstallaren, Bror Wikstr6:m, barlidigare visat att flan fdrmar drakonsekvenser av ett konstn5rligf ut-gingslAgc . och bar gbr ban det medbesked . Utstillningen ar n3stan ensmula fdrsitligt vackert arrangerad .hillen i silver och frascht blitt . "Du-

kama" ar fotografier tagna i fom-automat men raffinerat screentryck-ta, delvis i silverfarg, vilket blandannat givit dcm d4guerrotypiens spe-ciella effekt att f8rvandlas frin po-sitiva till negativa . alltefterom be .traktaren rbr sig . Detta visnella fdr-vandlingsnummer ar nyckeln tillWikstrbms metod .

Plotsligt stir :besokaren framfdr enskrattspegel . Hiuts 2ninan3e,- groteskaspegeljag - fingas upp± av en TV .kamera och bverfSrs tilt ex antalTV-mottagare i fbnstret . Betraktarenskapar sin egen bild ocn ger viaTV, CIA spontapa reaktion pi dennaliild. Men detta utgor bara en avpraktiskt-ekonomiska Aril stympadfbrestallning om vart Wikstrdm syf-tar. Utstallningens centrala fbremitar namligen ett modulcrat .spegclrumi modell, dar ett antal fisurcr mcdhjalp av TV-kameror mingfaldigasoch bverfi rs till en hel "vagg" avTV-mottagare. sour tillsammans -om projektet fbrverkligas - skulle geen slags � Mmural � i standig, vix-lingsrik fdrvandling, avanceiad tek-nik i bildskapandets tjanst .Har stalls vi infbr "milningen" sour

inte ratteligen kan kallas mtlning ."duken" med ansiktena sum ar enfladdrande flagga. portrattcn somfbrsvinncr infdr ens bgon, "fotogra-fiet" som ar ett rasterspel, ' kompo-sitionen" som upplbser sig. siilv ."konstnaren" som blir identisk medbetraktaren och som arbctar med fo-toautomat eller TV-kamera . banner-ligen . Bror Wikstrbm satter en skratt-spegel framfbr var trygga nuna,blandar omarkligl bort vira etiket-ter pi miteri, fotografi, arkitektur.stillbild. film . Orden mist: stockasig i halsen pi var och en. som fdr-sbker verbalisera sina upplevelser avdetta med hjalp av var ;ill bindsu-Ian f&rslitna och obbnhdrligt fdr.aldrade estetiska terminologi .ULF HARD AF SEGERSTAD

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Telecopier number: 0091-505473-0614

To:

MaUn Wilson

From :

Bror Wkstr6m

Re :

ARS ELECTRCNICA Festival

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April 14,1942

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these pages. please call us, tel.no.

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Katarina Jones

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April 10, 1992

Dear MoUn Wilson,

MaUn WilsonThe Vosulkos, Inc100 Route 6Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501USA

Thank you very much for your letter that I received some three weeks ago.Since then I hove done some research, more particularly in my drawers andelsewhere in more or less forgotten hiding-places. To my great pleasure, which Ihope also will be yours, I actually found some material which I am puttingtogether just now: newspaper articles, pictures from my installation at GalleryMaxim 27/1 1966 - I had prepared the installation during the last three months 1965.(I enclose a translation of the review in Svenska Dagbladet written by Ulf Hbrd ofSegerstod) .

At that time Ture SJBlander came to the gallery and we started acooperation, video-experiments, after my own concepts and intentions . More orless a development of the installation . I can give you further information about thiscollaboration, which eventually emerged into the electronical experiment IM.The result appeared in the Swedish television - 15 minutes in Nils Petter Sundgrensfilm review . If you are interested, l con dispatch one tape of this event (VHS).

Furthermore I have kept a colour-experiment, a five-minute moveableinformal painting (electronic painting) which was performed in 1969. The paintingwas mode ready by using on electronic scanner.

Maybe it also could be of some interest for you to know that I worked upelectronic holograms in 360 degrees by using colour synthesizer. At the same timeI made holograms in the holograms, two holograms into one. This was 1977 . 1keep a tape of these electronic experiments as well .

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This moterial Is available. Let me Just add that 1 later, 1979 1 think, made asynthetic hologram at the electronic studio EMS, by using their big computer forelectronic music . The motive was a deformed spiral that was repeated so far asto give the spectator an impression of a planet vaguely moving, like a yam-bailthat unwinds itself and goes together, expansion and implosion.

My best regards,

Bror WIkstr6m

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''SV EN SxA D AQBL A, DET Toiisdagen den ,27 januaii 1966

Utstillaren, Bror Wilstr6m, baraidigare visat alt ban fbrmar drakonsekvenser IV ett konstn,irligi ut-gungslige, och har gdr hen det medbesked, Uistillningen it nlistan ensmula fbrsitligt vackert arrangerad,

Bror Wikstrdrvt pd Galled Maxim.

hallen i silver och friseht butt, "Du,

Bror Wikstrtim : Ti'-Bill .

En ftillram konrtrabotorilken liten vacker . bli mil-ning, utbrast tevelvinnen-

-- Ursalcta mig, men det It fak-fskt ell fotografi av min munhiila,tillstod konstniren stillsamt- Det hilt it fotografi pi nytt

sii.tt, fastslog fotovinnen,-= Nej. det hit it ctt silkscreen-

tryck, mask. jag bekinna,' inskdt;konstnxren,

.Som tavelvisning It det hlir

verkiigcn orlginellt, konstaterade ut-stllllningsvgnnen,- Forlit, men jet har Ir ingen

tavelvisning . Det it en TV-utsand"ning, infdll konstniren .

I ovanstdende, bars till (;n del fin-geiade replikskifte it konstrirensammc, tnedan hans diskusoonspart-ner skiftar. . Samtaien utspelades paGalled Maxim, dar man fdtjAtligenjust nu ken fi en lika ovanlig sourlirorik lcktion i alt fiirflvtta sig pamycket tuna ls i friga om "konst",

karna" ar fotografier tagtia i folo "sutomat men raffluerat screentryck "ta, delvis i silverfdrg, vilket blandannat givit dam daguerrotypi"s spc-ciclla effekt alt fdrvandlas frin po-Shive till negative, alltefterom be-traktaren rbr sig. Detta visnella fbr-vandlingsaummer ltr nycketn tillWikstrtims metod,

ptotsligt stir bes&karen framfbr cnskrattspegel, Hani flinande, groteskaspegeljag fingas upp av en TV-karnera och tiverfbrs till tit Antal"1"V-mottagare i fiinstret. 13etraktarenskapar sin cgcn biid och get viaTV sin spontana reaktion pi, dennabild, Men delta utgbr bara an aypraktiskt-ekonomiska skil :ttympadforcstallning om vart Wiksirom syf-tar. Utstallningens centrals, f6retrtaltar niimligen ett modulerat .spegelrunti modell, dir ett antal figurer medhjalp

av .TV-1ameror mingfaldigas

och overfdrs till en ltcl "vkgg" avTV "mottagare . som tillsammansom projektek fbrverkfgas -- skull. Sten slags -1"V-mural" i stindig, vax-lingsrik forvandling, avancetad lcknik i bildskapandets tjinst.Hit stills vi infbr "MAIningen" son

inte ratteligen kin kallas miming"duken" med ansiktena som it er

fladdrands flagga, portritten confdrsvinner infbr ens bgon, "fotografiet" som it eti rastempel, "kompositioncn" sour upplbser sit; sjily"konstnh-ren" som blir *Identisk me,betraktaren och som arbetar fried totoautomat eller TV-kamera, hannetligen. Bror Wikstrtim sitter en skrattspegct framfdr vir tryggn , nunrblander otniirkligk bort vita Ptiltctter pi mileri, fotografi, arkitektutstillbild, film . Orden mist. stockSig

i halsen pi vat och en, Som 161sdkcr wrbalisera sine upplevcher adelta med hjklp av vir :ill bindsiIan forslitna och ob6nh6rligt fife

I aldrade ostetiska terminolosi,ULF HARD AF SBGERS'iAD

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Aaubet destroyerofArt

- What a beautiful blue little painting, thefriend of pictures exclaimed.

- Pardon me, but this is actually a photography of my oral cavity, the

artist admitted quietly.- This is a photography in a new way, the friend of photos determined.

- No,this is a silkscreen print, I must confess, the artist put in.

- As a picture exhibition this is really original, the friend of galleries

affirmed.- Excuse me, but this is not on exhibition of pictures . This Is a TV-

transmission, the artist struck In.In the above exchange of words, which is just to some extent fictitious,

the artist is the same, while his discussion partner alternates . The talks are

taking place at Gallery Maxim, where you consequently for the moment

can get an as unusual as Instructive lesson In moving on very thin ice as what

"art" is concerned.The exhibitor, Bror Wikstr6m, has shown before that he is able to take the

consequences of an artistical initial position fully into consideration, and here

he does so properly. The exhibition Is beautifully arranged in almost a

treacherous way, It Is kept in silver and fresh-looking blue . The canvases"

are photographies taken in a photo slot machine but artfully printed in

screen, to some part in silver colour, which among other things has

bestowed upon them the special effect of the daguerreotype to be

permuted from the positive to the negative as the spectator moves. This

visual act of transformation is the key to WikstrOm's method .

Suddenly the visitor is standing In front of a laughing mirror. His grinning,

grotesque mirror-self Is caught by a TV-camera and transmitted to a number

of TV-screens In the window. The spectator is creating his own picture and

through the TV he is giving himself his spontaneous reaction of this picture. But

this is just part of one by practical economic reasons mutilated concept

concerning Wikstrbm's object in view, his purpose. The central object of the

exhibition is namely a modulated model of a mirror-room, where a number

of figures by the use of TV-cameras are multiplied and transmitted to a 'wall"

full of IV-screens, which together - if the project is realized - would give a sort

of "TV-mural painting", a constantly changing transformation, advanced

technique in the service of picture making.Here we are confronted with the "painting" which rightfully not can be

named a painting, the "canvas" with the faces which is a flapping flag, the

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portraits that disappear In front of your eyes, the "photography" which is ascreen-game, the "composition" which disintegrates itself, the "artist" whobecomes identical with the spectator and who is working with a photo slotmachine or a TV-camera. Indeed, Bror Wikstr6m is putting a laughing-mirrorjust In front of our own safe faces, he is imperceptibly muddling away ourlabels for painting, photography, architecture, still-life picture, film. The wordsmust stick in the throat for everyone that is trying to verbalize his experiencesof all this by using our, all the way to the insole, worn-out and implacablyobsolete oestheticol terminology.

Ulf Hbrd of SegerstodTranslation: Olov Wistr6m

(This article was originally printed in "Svenska Dagbiodet" 27/6 1966).