Gregg Biermann

Appearances

In 1992 my friend and colleague Francis Schmidt began work on a way to transfer video to film by using the serial port on a home computer to very accurately control film camera motors. When I arrived in Chicago in early 1994 he suggested that I create a piece on the computer and transfer it onto film. I then proceeded to create a piece in the even then antiquated 1-bit/pixel environment, in spite of the tendency for technologies to be created and abandoned before significant works are created with them. The work is the apotheosis of the Amiga computer, a nostalgia piece for modernism, abstract animation of the 1920's (Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling), early computer sound experiments like those done at Bell Telephone Labs in the 1950's, and the first video game: Pong.