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I have been asked by our International Bureau to inform you on a TV program called 111Aonulnent" made in 1968.
As you may understand it is rather difficult to remember in detail what technical manipulations that %las made in this program, first
because it was several years ago and second that we made a number c programmes using this kind of technique during 67-68.
The only t:ritten information obtainable is a small book called MONUMENT and the mgazine Industria June -68 (cover and sides 56-60). Unforunately I don't know  the whereabouts of the artists involved,
but I remember that paintings and posters wens made and that there
an exihibition.
Technically we worked in two lines: geometric distortion on the scanning raster by feeding different rjaveforms to the scanning coil videodistortion by using various filters in the noneolnposit videosignal. (This technique was used succesfully in colour in a program called "Space in the brain" also made in -68).
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DATAKONST
Datakraften anvands idag i de mest ovantade sammanhang, och har t.ex. lett till nya och intressanta relationer mellan konst och teknologi. Under det nyliga TM-seminariet (med temat ))Bilderv>) visades en del prov pa konst sour utforts med hjalp av datorer.
Dels visades ett antal grafiska blad i urval av konstnarerna Bror Wikstrom och Sven Hoglund, delar av en svenskfransk vandringsutstallning kallad »Datom och Konstna
rem) (den premiarvisades pa Centre Culturel Suedois i Paris och har sedan tumerat i Frankrike och Sverige). Huvuddelen bestar av grafik, malningar och fotomontage. Dar finns ocksa en skulptur i rostfritt stal (Ikaros 10-S) som utforts av konstnarerna Kammere-Luka och Kempf i Belfort-gruppen med hjalp av en CDC-dator. Tredimensionella objekt kan fran ett dataprogram framstallas direkt med hjalp av en numeriskt styrd maskin. Skapandeprocessen, fran ide till fardigt verk, blir pa sd satt helt automatiserad.
Multiplex optiska printer som med laserljus omvandJar de 1.080 filmrutorna till spalthologram pd en genomskinlig cylindrisk plastfilm.
Sd hdr gdr det till att sfilmav ett multiplex-hologram.
Objektet placeras pd en roterande plattform 11 varv pd 4S sekunderl
Sven Hoglund: Expanded Room 1.
Bror Wikstrom: Deformed Spiral.
Wikstrom/H6glund arbetar pa att forsoka fomya holografins anvandning inom det fria bildskapandet, dar en av begransningarna varit att frigora sig fran det strikt fotografiska avbildandet (35 mm filmkamera och sv/v-film anvandes vid registreringen). Det inns fortfarande vissa formatbegransningar och optiska problem som maste l6sas, och Lloyd Cross arbetar pa att vidareutveckla laserprintern for att fa storre upplosning och hogre briljans i bilden. Wikstrom/Hoglunds nasta projekt gar ut pa att utf6ra var sin rorlig, tredimensionell bild/ljud-pelare, dar Ijudet skall framstallas fran samma dataprogramunderlag som bilden och utgora en syntetisk mediaenhet.
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Deis visades under TM-seminariet ocksa tva datahologram framstallda av Bror Wikstrom och Sven H6glund, framstallda medelst dataprogrammerat skissmaterial hos Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) i Stockholm och tillverkade i en specialbyggd optisk laserprinter hos Multiplex Corp., 454 Shotwell St., San Fransisco, California 94110. Systemet, s.k. multiplexhologram, har utvecklats av Lloyd Cross
och ger ett r6rligt hologram med 120 eller 360 graders tittvinkel. Sadana tillverkas nu pa industriell/kommersiell basis (ett 120 graders hologram kostar ca 150 dollar att framstalla).

THE VASULKAS, INC. 100 ROUTE 6 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 87501
TEL. (505) 471-7181/FAX. (505) 473-0614
Bror Wikstrom Riddarg. 6 11435 Stockholm SWEDEN
rax: 46 8 61.13552
Dear Bror Wikstrom,
Thank you very much for you fax. We greatly appreciate the searching through history you have done on our behalf. We would love to see the tape you mention that appeared on Swedish
television. Is it possible to have the tape on NTSC? The focus of this exhibition is the technology from 1965-75, so we would be very interested in any documentation you may have about any electronic instruments you and Sjolander used to create the images. Attached is a short description of the exhibition for your information.
Please excuse my delay in responding to you. Steina Vasulka has been in Helsinki and Holland, and is now in Germany; Woody Vasulka is in San Francisco.
Regards,
Malin Wilson Co-ordinator

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MoLin Wilson The Vasulkas, Inc 100 Route 6
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 USA
AM 27, 1992
Dear MaUn Wilson,
Please find enclosed a translation of an article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter of August 29, 1966.
Further material will be sent on "Time" and a video cassette will be sent in the American VCR-system NTSE.
My best regards,
Katarina Jones on behalf of Bror Wkstr6m

N "exposes" the present In electronic pictures during the jazz festival
- We want to expose, not call off'.
So the artists Ture Sjolander and 8ror Wikstrom say, of current interest as they are for the coming jazz festival within the Festival of Stockholm. Some time during the three days of the jazz festival (Sept 16-18) 1966  the two picture experimenters' new film is shown on TV. It is ready made for TV with the apparatus of the TV and with the basic function of the TV before one's sight.
Some year ago Sj6londer-Wikstrom brought about a sensation by exposing pictures on ad-palings In Stockholm. If you had something to display you shouldn't fence It in, neither In the museums nor among the private collectors, but expose it where people are to be found, they thought. So consequently they have chosen the biggest medium of communication, TV, for their latest exhibition.
SJ$Ionder-Wkstrom are fully conscious of the topicalness of today, another reason for choosing TV. What else can be more actual than to demonstrate the formal possibilities of TV, and what else can be more actual than to mirror the present while you are demonstrating these formal possibilities?
"Scanner" re-Interprets
"Time" is the name of the exhibition, which is based upon various actualities that Sjolander-Wikstrom have come across during the spring, for Instance "Gemini" and foetal-pictures. The main part is taken up by the very much to the fore avant-garde jazz-musician Don Cherry and his quintet at the Golden Circle.
The pictures are run through a specially built "scanner", an apparatus that in the ordinary cases Is producing 'real' pictures, but which in this sensitized state is "re-interpreting" what the camera has seen, and thus is creating new pictures. The technicians and the artists have decided what the apparatus looks like, and the apparatus has decided what the pictures look like.
The present is reflected
Consequently the couple Sj6londer-Wikstrom is demonstrating a phenomenon that is very much up to date just now, the electronic machine-

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picture, The Korean Nam June Poik is for the moment sitting at the radio and is working with similar filings. He will show his result at the festival of Fylkingen "Visions of the present". But this will take place one week after SJ6lander WikstrOms' demonstration on TV. (Sic! The translator's comm.)
Ture SjOlonder and Bror Wikstr6m hold that they by "Time` have accomplished a total reflection of the present, Novelties and actualities have been interpreted by on apparatus that s is a novelty and an actuality. A vision of the present. Their Ideas they spread in different gujses like rings on the water. "Time" will be shown at ABF (The Workers' Federation of Culture) during the festival, fleshes of the film - made on silk-screen - will be exposed, and 300 such pictures have already been sold to Multiart, the darling of Kristion Romore, Finally a summary of the film will be edited in book-form very soon. And then, furthermore, Sjbander-Wlkstr6m are negotiating just now about contributing at the festival which the Americans of "Fylkingen" are planning in New York in October. Possibly parts of "Time" are going to be transmitted by satellite.
Translation: Olov Wistram/kj
This article was originally published in Dogens Nyheter 29/8 1966.

in m tD W V J r A Y W A A W 0 m m f~7 N Q1 ICU
TI ATrtt-rILNi•hiUSIK-IIAI)I0•TV
TV "staler 'ut" nuet elektxonbilder under jazzfestiValen
--- Vl Till stalia ut, jare stills 1111
SL siger konsmirerna Ture Sjdlander Itch Bgor Wicdrstran% attuck under den scundande .Imfestivalen 1 Stockholm, FesrspeL NAgon gang. under jazzfestlyalens are dagar (1b--18 sepc) visis de to bijdexperimentaterernas npa film 1 TV. Den St gjord Or TV lned TV:s apparatus och med TV:s grundfttnktion f6r fonem
aktuelle avaat,gardefaamnmikersr
Don Cherry ach hams kvintatt ph tsy1le me Cirkela
Blldersta bar k6rts genom en ape. clalbyggd "scanner", an apparst mm t vanAgs fall producerar "riktiga" blider. men som I'detta pre-. parerade WhUnd "omtolkar" ved kameran set, och skapar nya blider. Teknlkerna och konslnkerna fur beatimt hur apparaten stall me ut,' apparateu bar best1mt hut blider-~ no skill se ut.
Nuet speglas
Fiir "got Ar :edam salida Sjt3. lander-Wickstr+gm 4111 aped sensstfon Senom att stAila ut blider pi snnonsplauk' I Stockholm. Hads smart aigonting amt visaupp, mi bar• de saaA Into stiaga in det i museer ellar'bom prlvataaartlare Wan stills ut dot d"sr folk irons, tyckta de. Nu bar do ahtsi valt det storats kocntnunikattonmedlat, TV, for sin aamasla utsiilining.
Sjolander-WIckstram it aktualiIstamedvotna, ytierligare eat skit f6r TV Vad tan vara mer aktuellt in amt visa DS TV:s formella n+Oj11gheter, ach ved ken vary mer attuallt IEn sit *peg]* nuet nir man demonatrerar dens, formella saojllghetar!
Domed demonstrerar paret Sjblander-Wlckshiium an 16reteelse som it mycket aktuell I dagarns: den
'elektrondska asasklabilden; Korea
s'Scanner" Or11tO~Ca.C Den Sam June Ps4k otter just just rLu
IfIzaa" beret ulaibllaingen, mom do maker. Hanaskoll visa UPP mitt
byggez ph diverse ektuallteter mom resultat vld Fylkingens festival Sj6lander-Wiekstrom stoat pi un-. "Visioner av nuet". Men det blir der Aran. lex "Geralni". och fan- an vecka eater Sjolander.Wick
;, terbllder. Ituvuddelen upptmx den strdms demonstration I TV.
Eit exempel pd btrr de brorbeyads errkeronbildemn i'Time" tan is
Nt.
Tura Sjdlander och Bror Wick'-strum menar sig med "Time" hW gjort era totalspegling av nuet. Hyheter ach ektualiteter bar tolkats av an apparat earn i sJg it en nyhet ach aktualitet. En vision av Duet. Sina Wer sprider do *am ringer pi vallnet i otika skepnader. "Time" kommer amt visas pi ARF
under festivalen, bildor ur fiimen - gjorda pi allksrreen - stall stMs ut och 300 Adam her stif is ,Ell ldultikonst, Kristian Romares skbtebam. Slutilgen kommer eat lkoompendium av filmen ut I bokform saneka snort.
Och a& idihandlmr SjblanderWickstrem fn am snedverken i den festival mom "Fylkingens amerikmner ylonerar I New York I oktober. Eventuellt bverrors delar ov "Time" via satellit.
IlUndsgen deft 29 Augusti-1966 BAGBNS II(THET111 "

En still sam kon strabotor
ilken liten vacker bli milning, utbrast tavelvannen. - Ursakta mig, men det it faktiskt ex fotografi av min munhijla, tillstod konstnaren `atillsamt
- Det har ar 'fotografi pi nytt salt. fastslog fotovannen.
- Nej. det har ar ett silkscreentryck. mist: jag bekanna, inskbt konstnaren.
- Som tavelvisning ar det har verkligen originellt, konstaterade utstaliningsvannen.
- Fdrlat, men det har ar ingen tavelvisning. Det ar en TV-utsindning. infdll konstnaren.
f ovanstiende, bara till cn del fingerade replikskifte ar konstv!iren samme. medan bans diskuss+onspartner skiftar. Sarntaien utspelsldes pa Galkri 'Maxim, dir man fdlj..ktligen jtgst nu kan ft en lika ovanlig sarp larorik lektion i att fbrflvtta sig
mycket tunn is i friiga om -'kon.,V
Utstallaren, Bror Wikstr6:m, bar lidigare visat att flan fdrmar dra konsekvenser av ett konstn5rligf utgingslAgc. och bar gbr ban det med besked. Utstillningen ar n3stan en smula fdrsitligt vackert arrangerad. hillen i silver och frascht blitt. "Du
kama" ar fotografier tagna i fomautomat men raffinerat screentryckta, delvis i silverfarg, vilket bland annat givit dcm d4guerrotypiens speciella effekt att f8rvandlas frin positiva till negativa. alltefterom be. traktaren rbr sig. Detta visnella fdrvandlingsnummer ar nyckeln till Wikstrbms metod.
Plotsligt stir:besokaren framfdr en skrattspegel. Hiuts 2ninan3e,- groteska spegeljag- fingas upp± av en TV. kamera och bverfSrs tilt ex antal TV-mottagare i fbnstret. Betraktaren skapar sin egen bild ocn ger via TV, CIA spontapa reaktion pi denna liild. Men detta utgor bara en av praktiskt-ekonomiska Aril stympad fbrestallning om vart Wikstrdm syftar. Utstallningens centrala fbremit ar namligen ett modulcrat.spegclrum i modell, dar ett antal fisurcr mcd hjalp av TV-kameror mingfaldigas och bverfi rs till en hel "vagg" av TV-mottagare. sour tillsammans - om projektet fbrverkligas - skulle ge en slags „Mmural„ i standig, vixlingsrik fdrvandling, avanceiad teknik i bildskapandets tjanst.
Har stalls vi infbr "milningen" sour inte ratteligen kan kallas mtlning. "duken" med ansiktena sum ar en fladdrande flagga. portrattcn som fbrsvinncr infdr ens bgon, "fotografiet" som ar ett rasterspel, ' kompositionen" som upplbser sig. siilv. "konstnaren" som blir identisk med betraktaren och som arbctar med fotoautomat eller TV-kamera. bannerligen. Bror Wikstrbm satter en skrattspegel framfbr var trygga nuna, blandar omarkligl bort vira etiketter pi miteri, fotografi, arkitektur. stillbild. film. Orden mist: stocka sig i halsen pi var och en. som fdrsbker verbalisera sina upplevelser av detta med hjalp av var ;ill bindsuIan f&rslitna och obbnhdrligt fdr. aldrade estetiska terminologi.
ULF HARD AF SEGERSTAD it
Rror f1• rkstri>m: TI'-gild.

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Telecopier number: 0091-505473-0614 To: MaUn Wilson From: Bror Wkstr6m
Re: ARS ELECTRCNICA Festival
BWIkj April 14,1942
No of pages, including this cover
sheet 6
If you have any problems receiving these pages. please call us, tel.no.
(46) 8 6118090 Katarina Jones

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MaUn Wilson The Vosulkos, Inc 100 Route 6
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 USA
April 10, 1992
Dear MoUn Wilson,
Thank you very much for your letter that I received some three weeks ago. Since then I hove done some research, more particularly in my drawers and elsewhere in more or less forgotten hiding-places. To my great pleasure, which I hope also will be yours, I actually found some material which I am putting together just now: newspaper articles, pictures from my installation at Gallery Maxim 27/1 1966 - I had prepared the installation during the last three months 1965. (I enclose a translation of the review in Svenska Dagbladet written by Ulf Hbrd of Segerstod).
At that time Ture SJBlander came to the gallery and we started a cooperation, video-experiments, after my own concepts and intentions. More or less a development of the installation. I can give you further information about this collaboration, which eventually emerged into the electronical experiment IM. The result appeared in the Swedish television - 15 minutes in Nils Petter Sundgrens film review. If you are interested, l con dispatch one tape of this event (VHS).
Furthermore I have kept a colour-experiment, a five-minute moveable informal painting (electronic painting) which was performed in 1969. The painting was mode ready by using on electronic scanner.
Maybe it also could be of some interest for you to know that I worked up electronic holograms in 360 degrees by using colour synthesizer. At the same time I made holograms in the holograms, two holograms into one. This was 1977. 1 keep a tape of these electronic experiments as well.

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This moterial Is available. Let me Just add that 1 later, 1979 1 think, made a synthetic hologram at the electronic studio EMS, by using their big computer for electronic music. The motive was a deformed spiral that was repeated so far as to give the spectator an impression of a planet vaguely moving, like a yam-bail that unwinds itself and goes together, expansion and implosion.
My best regards,
Bror WIkstr6m

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''S V E N S x A D A QB L A, D E T T oiisdagen den ,27 januaii 1966

En ftillram konrtrabotor
ilken liten vacker . bli milning, utbrast tevelvinnen-- Ursalcta mig, men det It fakfskt ell fotografi av min munhiila, tillstod konstniren stillsamt
- Det hilt it fotografi pi nytt sii.tt, fastslog fotovinnen,
-= Nej. det hit it ctt silkscreen
tryck, mask. jag bekinna,' inskdt ;konstnxren, .
Som tavelvisning It det hlir
verkiigcn orlginellt, konstaterade utstllllningsvgnnen,
- Forlit, men jet har Ir ingen tavelvisning. Det it en TV-utsand• ning, infdll konstniren.
Utstillaren, Bror Wilstr6m, bar aidigare visat alt ban fbrmar dra konsekvenser IV ett konstn,irligi utgungslige, och har gdr hen det med besked, Uistillningen it nlistan en smula fbrsitligt vackert arrangerad,

Bror Wikstrdrvt pd Galled Maxim. hallen i silver och friseht butt, "Du,
I ovanstdende, bars till (;n del fingeiade replikskifte it konstriren sammc, tnedan hans diskusoonspartner skiftar.. Samtaien utspelades pa Galled Maxim, dar man fdtjAtligen just nu ken fi en lika ovanlig sour lirorik lcktion i alt fiirflvtta sig pa mycket tuna ls i friga om "konst",
karna" ar fotografier tagtia i folo• sutomat men raffluerat screentryck• ta, delvis i silverfdrg, vilket bland annat givit dam daguerrotypi"s spcciclla effekt alt fdrvandlas frin poShive till negative, alltefterom betraktaren rbr sig. Detta visnella fbrvandlingsaummer ltr nycketn till Wikstrtims metod,
ptotsligt stir bes&karen framfbr cn skrattspegel, Hani flinande, groteska spegeljag fingas upp av en TVkarnera och tiverfbrs till tit Antal •1 •V-mottagare i fiinstret. 13etraktaren skapar sin cgcn biid och get via TV sin spontana reaktion pi, denna bild, Men delta utgbr bara an ay praktiskt-ekonomiska skil :ttympad forcstallning om vart Wiksirom syftar. Utstallningens centrals, f6retrtal tar niimligen ett modulerat.spegelrunt i modell, dir ett antal figurer med hjalp av. TV-1ameror mingfaldigas och overfdrs till en ltcl "vkgg" av TV•mottagare. som tillsammans
om projektek fbrverkfgas -- skull. St en slags -1•V-mural" i stindig, vaxlingsrik forvandling, avancetad lck nik i bildskapandets tjinst.

Hit stills vi infbr "MAIningen" son
inte ratteligen kin kallas miming "duken" med ansiktena som it er fladdrands flagga, portritten con fdrsvinner infbr ens bgon, "fotogra fiet" som it eti rastempel, "kompo sitioncn" sour upplbser sit; sjily "konstnh-ren" som blir *Identisk me, betraktaren och som arbetar fried to toautomat eller TV-kamera, hannet ligen. Bror Wikstrtim sitter en skratt spegct framfdr vir tryggn , nunr blander otniirkligk bort vita Ptiltct ter pi mileri, fotografi, arkitektut stillbild, film. Orden mist. stock Sig i halsen pi vat och en, Som 161 sdkcr wrbalisera sine upplevcher a delta med hjklp av vir :ill bindsi Ian forslitna och ob6nh6rligt fife I aldrade ostetiska terminolosi,
ULF HARD AF SBGERS'iAD
Bror Wikstrtim: Ti'-Bill.

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A a ubet destroyer of Art
- What a beautiful blue little painting, the friend of pictures exclaimed.
- Pardon me, but this is actually a photography of my oral cavity, the artist admitted quietly.
- This is a photography in a new way, the friend of photos determined. - No, this is a silkscreen print, I must confess, the artist put in.
- As a picture exhibition this is really original, the friend of galleries affirmed.
- Excuse me, but this is not on exhibition of pictures. This Is a TVtransmission, the artist struck In.
In the above exchange of words, which is just to some extent fictitious, the artist is the same, while his discussion partner alternates. The talks are taking place at Gallery Maxim, where you consequently for the moment
can get an as unusual as Instructive lesson In moving on very thin ice as what "art" is concerned.
The exhibitor, Bror Wikstr6m, has shown before that he is able to take the consequences of an artistical initial position fully into consideration, and here he does so properly. The exhibition Is beautifully arranged in almost a
treacherous way, It Is kept in silver and fresh-looking blue. The canvases" are photographies taken in a photo slot machine but artfully printed in screen, to some part in silver colour, which among other things has bestowed upon them the special effect of the daguerreotype to be permuted from the positive to the negative as the spectator moves. This visual act of transformation is the key to WikstrOm's method.
Suddenly the visitor is standing In front of a laughing mirror. His grinning, grotesque mirror-self Is caught by a TV-camera and transmitted to a number of TV-screens In the window. The spectator is creating his own picture and
through the TV he is giving himself his spontaneous reaction of this picture. But this is just part of one by practical economic reasons mutilated concept concerning Wikstrbm's object in view, his purpose. The central object of the exhibition is namely a modulated model of a mirror-room, where a number of figures by the use of TV-cameras are multiplied and transmitted to a 'wall" full of IV-screens, which together - if the project is realized - would give a sort of "TV-mural painting", a constantly changing transformation, advanced technique in the service of picture making.
Here we are confronted with the "painting" which rightfully not can be named a painting, the "canvas" with the faces which is a flapping flag, the

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portraits that disappear In front of your eyes, the "photography" which is a screen-game, the "composition" which disintegrates itself, the "artist" who becomes identical with the spectator and who is working with a photo slot machine or a TV-camera. Indeed, Bror Wikstr6m is putting a laughing-mirror just In front of our own safe faces, he is imperceptibly muddling away our labels for painting, photography, architecture, still-life picture, film. The words must stick in the throat for everyone that is trying to verbalize his experiences of all this by using our, all the way to the insole, worn-out and implacably obsolete oestheticol terminology.
Ulf Hbrd of Segerstod Translation: Olov Wistr6m
(This article was originally printed in "Svenska Dagbiodet" 27/6 1966).