Dan Sandin, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Matthew Schlanger, Steve Beck, Jim Wiseman, and Bill Etra represent a generation of pioneers who explored video and moving image synthesis. These artists developed hardware instruments as technological advancements in an era of idealism and utopian views of communication, where video and television were regarded as the ultimate new creative medium, able to elicit widespread cultural and social change.

Tonight their work will be shown alongside that of a new generation of artists returning to hardware-based video instruments, like Billy Roisz (NTSC), noteNdo, Jon Satrom, Paul Slocum, Karl Klomp, Cory Arcangel and Paper Rad, and LoVid. Departing from their predecessors, the latter set approaches technology with personal and global nostalgia as well as a romantic infatuation with the media-generating object. Inspired by noise, extreme music, glitch and hacker culture, as well as the fragility, unpredictability, and limitations of technology, they choose to work with decades-old electronic components for personal aesthetic reasons and as a reaction to the dominance of technology and media in mainstream culture.

Please note: Galapagos Art Space is a licensed bar in NYC and no-one under 21 years of age will be admitted. Also, the purchase price is for the price of admittance. Seating is General Admission, and there is a possibility that some ticket holders may stand to view the event.