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Jim
Wiseman is a photographer and video artist whose pioneering
work with video synthesizers began in 1970 with Nam June
Paik and Shuya Abe at Cal Arts. For the feature film "The
Secret Life of Plants" Jim Wiseman teamed
up with Richard
Lowenberg,John
Lifton, and Tom
Zahuranec in 1976 to coordinate
dancers and plant sensor monitors to control the video synthesizers
and digital audio synthesizer based on an Altair computer
controlled by software written by Lifton.
In
addition to his plants-focused collaborations, Jim Wiseman
has also worked with Dan Sandin at the Art Institute of
Chicago where he combined a Sandin Image Procesor with
the Paik/Abe Synthesizer to produce stunning video feedback
and abstracts using oscillators, video tape, and live
camera feeds for input. In 1974, he collaborated with
Richard Teitelbaum (on Moog), on the Tai Chi biofeedback
video composition, "Tai Chi Alpha Tala", for
WTTW-PBS Chicago's "TV Song". From 1976-1984
he worked in San Francisco and LA doing real time video
synthesizer performance, with and without biofeedback.
He currently resides in Kauai, Hawaii where he maintains
a studio with the only still-functioning Paik/Abe synthesizer
in existence.
(see
project here)
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