As a consequence of the renewed interest towards analog circuitry, in the last few years, analog video art has become increasingly popular in the community of electronic musicians and multimedia artists. Through digital prototyping, the workshop shows possible hardware configurations to setup an analog video workstation recycling laser, oscilloscopes and old cathode ray tube monitors. We see different ways to create images, and we discuss possible solutions on how to setup an all analog audiovisual live show using laser and vector monitors.
Alberto Novello’s practice uses found or decontextualized analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repurposes and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the natural vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds.
His works have been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofa Madrid, Amsterdam Dance Event, Venice Biennale, New York Computer Music Festival, to mention a few.
He graduated in Nuclear Physics at the University of Trieste, completed the master in Art Science with J.C. Risset and C. Cadoz, a PhD degree at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven with A. Kohlrausch, and graduated in Electronic Music Composition at the Institute of Sonology, Den Haag.
As a consequence of the renewed interest towards analog circuitry, in the last few years, analog video art has become increasingly popular in the community of electronic musicians and multimedia artists. Through digital prototyping, the workshop shows possible hardware configurations to setup an analog video workstation recycling laser, oscilloscopes and old cathode ray tube monitors. We see different ways to create images, and we discuss possible solutions on how to setup an all analog audiovisual live show using laser and vector monitors.
Alberto Novello’s practice uses found or decontextualized analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repurposes and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. By using these forgotten devices, he exposes the public to the aesthetic differences between the ubiquitous digital projections and the natural vibrance of analogue beams, engaging them to reflect on the sociopolitical impact of technology in a retrospective on technologisation: what ‘old’ means, and what value the ‘new’ really adds.
His works have been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofa Madrid, Amsterdam Dance Event, Venice Biennale, New York Computer Music Festival, to mention a few.
He graduated in Nuclear Physics at the University of Trieste, completed the master in Art Science with J.C. Risset and C. Cadoz, a PhD degree at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven with A. Kohlrausch, and graduated in Electronic Music Composition at the Institute of Sonology, Den Haag.
