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>> WE WANTED TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK TO GIVE YOU A
LOOK AT THIS WEEK'S EPISODE OF "COLORES."
IT FEATURES A CONVERSATION WITH STEINA AND ***
VASULKA. THE COUPLE PIONEERED VIDEO
ART, AND IN 1971 THEY FOUNDED A SEMINAL NEW YORK
CITY COLLECTIVE, "THE KITCHEN."
THEY NOW CALL SANTA FE HOME, AND THEY'RE STILL HARD IT.
WORKING, EXPLORING, AND REINVENTING THE MEDIUM.
>> IF YOU ARE IN VIDEO, YOU START OUT AS VIDEO OR FILM,
OR WHATEVER, AND THEN YOU GO THROUGH THIS ENDLESS
EVOLUTION OF THE EQUIPMENT. SO YOU END UP BEING, WHAT, A
DIGITAL ARTIST? >> IN OUR WORK, WHICH IS
EXPERIMENTATION WITH ELECTRONIC IMAGES, WE CAME
TO THE POINT OF WANTING TO EXPLORE COMPUTER IMAGES, AND
IN THE SUMMER OF 1978 WE DECIDED TO BUILD A DIGITAL
IMAGE TOOL. >> AT THAT TIME, THERE WAS
SOME COMPUTERS, BUT THEY WERE NOT STRUCTURAL.
YOU COULDN'T PROGRAM THEM THE WAY THAT WE WANTED.
SO WE HAD TO BUILD OUR OWN MACHINE TO DO IT.
I HAD TO PHYSICALLY PUT IT TOGETHER.
SO THIS WAS MY JOB, AND THIS WAS THE FIRST MACHINE THAT
REVEALED TO US HOW TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH THE LANGUAGE.
>> "COLORES" AIRS EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT HERE ON NEW
MEXICO PBS. IT'S A CELEBRATION OF THE
CREATIVE SPIRIT AND FEATURES STORIES ABOUT ART AND
CULTURE THAT ARE UNIQUELY NEW MEXICAN, AS WELL AS ART
FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE SHOW STARTS AT 9:00.