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/* The Distribution Religion */

Dan Sandin's Image Processor (built from 1971 - 1973) offered artists unprecedented abilities to [create/control/affect/transform] video + audio data, enabling live audio-video performances that literally set the stage for current realtime art praxis. to facilitate the open release of the plans for the Image Processor as an [artware/system/toolset], Sandin + PhilMorton created the Distribution Religion. as a predecessor to the open source movement, this approach allowed artists to engage with these systems + continues to [interest/inspire] [artisits/developers]. in order to honor the innovative [hystory/future] of the ImageProcessor and the DistributionReligion, criticalartware has converted the deadTree DistributionReligion into a single PDF file, for release to the {criticalartware} community.

/* 5 Minute Romp Through the I.P. */

title: 5 Minute Romp Through the IP
dvr: Dan Sandin
date:1973
description:"In 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built a comprehensive video instrument for artists, the Image Processor (IP), a modular, patch programmable, analog computer optimized for the manipulation of gray level information of multiple video inputs. Sandin decided that the best distribution strategy for his instrument "was to give away the plans for the IP and encourage artists to build their own copies. This gave rise to a community of artists with their own advanced video production capabilities and many shared goals and experiences." In this segment, Sandin demonstrates the routing of the camera signal through several basic modules of the IP, producing a "primitive" vocabulary of the effects specific to video." - Video Data Bank

criticalartware freely offers these downloads as shared cultural resources.