Digital TV Dinner is a video art clip from 1979 created by Raul Zaritsky, Jamie Fenton, and Dick Ainsworth using the Bally Astrocade console game to generate unusual patterns.
The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users to change game cartridges with power-on. When pressing the reset button, it was possible to remove the cartridge from the system and induce various memory dump pattern sequences. DIgital TV DInner is a collection of these curious states of silicon epilepsy set to music composed and generated upon this same platform.
DTV first appeared at an Electronic VIsualization Festival in Chicago, and we hear the voice of Dr. Thomas Defanti introducing this item to the audience.
Another great video coming from the parody religion “Church of the subgenius” who love to poke fun at organized religion while also offering some decent philosophical ideas underneath the troll!
Diane Slattery’s Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language and the Evolution of Consciousness, published in 2015, recounts Slattery 12-year exploration of an alien symbolic language system titled Glide, to which she gained access through psychedelically inspired altered states of consciousness (the term xenolinguistics refers to the study of such alien languages). Slattery’s original encounter with the Glide language occurred in 1998, while she was writing a novel. During a process of self-inquiry regarding an aspect of the novel’s plot she found herself ‘downloading’ a visual language composed of 27 glyphs, which were really just one glyph dynamically morphing and transforming itself into all other glyphs. Amazed at this discovery, Slattery soon learned to use the Glide language as a tool for the navigation of visionary landscapes and the rewriting of the psyche. Among other things, she developed a computer software titled LiveGlide, which she used to write three-dimensional notes during her psychedelic communication sessions, often producing video records of her conversations with the alien other. Here are two of these videos.
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