PIA VAN GELDER

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Apparition Apparatus, 2012
No-input set-up: Panasonic WJ MX-12 Video Mixer, Sony Trinitron CRT monitor, powered speaker.

Apparition Apparatus is an autonomous audio-visual setup presented on a table-top installation. This work presents the no-input vision mixer’s audio and visual performance through a speaker and CRT field monitor. The title indicates the mystical nature of the audio-visual outputs from the media-machine, in this case a Panasonic WJ MX 12 (c.1989), an early digital video mixer whose own video output is plugged into its input, and so too for the audio, resulting in a continuous stream of abstract electronic feedback phenomena. It is important to point out that this item of technology might be fetishised for its obscure link to the history of video art and to these people, its outputs may contain nostalgia, like a ghost from video’s past.