XFR STN Videokinesis

William and Kathleen Laziza have recently ingested a number of tapes from the 80s and 90s via the XFR STN at the New Museum. These works are now at the Internet Archive.

Joy to the World 1994
Joy to the World is Visual Music designed for ambient presentation. Joy to the World combines, optical image processing, Amiga graphics and recursive video imagery with synthesized sound. What is unique about this piece is that the audio is used to create the visuals is also the sound track. This work was created at the Micro Museum.


Convergence 1988
Convergence is visual music which is created on the Amiga. This work combines static images which are stamped onto the video with moving images to develop complex visual texture of color and rhythm. Fractal images are combined with recursive video to emphasize coincidental interplay between the various designs.
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Jam Session with Michael Brady #1 1997
This Jam session combines the work of Michael Brady on Violin with William Laziza on various visual instruments. The jam session was recorded live with the violin matched to the visuals in real time. The video is created with Amiga Computer graphics and and recursive video. This program consists of Opus 10 and 11 from the session.


Jam Session with Michael Brady #2 1997
This Jam session combines the work of Michael Brady on Violin with William Laziza on various visual instruments. The jam session was recorded live with the violin matched to the visuals in real time. The video is created with Amiga Computer graphics and and recursive video. This program consists of Opus 12 from the session.


Micro Museum Opening with Ghosts of the Canal #1 1999
This tape was created at the Micro Museum 2nd floor studio. This work features the Ghosts of the Canal who play along with the visuals generated by the Videograph which creates the turning recursive visual images. This video whimsically changes the colors and content as the Ghosts haunt the stage in robed in visual texture.


Micro Museum Opening with Ghosts of the Canal #2 1999
This tape was created at the Micro Museum 2nd floor studio. This work features the Ghosts of the Canal who play along with the visuals generated by the Videograph which creates the turning recursive visual images. This video whimsically changes the colors and content as the Ghosts haunt the stage in robed in visual texture.


Videokinesis Slo Mo 1995
Videokinesis is a work coined to describe William Laziza's visual music. It is formed by the conjunction of non-representational video with movement that provides a multifaceted visual experience. Videokinesis is usually performed live for each performance by vidicans who are to video as musicians are to music.


Zing 1999
Zing combines two recursive video images to generate a complex textured image. Both positive and negative regenerations are combined and colorized with each other for the final mix. The imagery is created partly on the videograph which allows the rotational freedom to keep the images intermingled and turning. The Zing part of this video refers to the seed light that comes into the central image and Zings through the image to create the inner mandalla.