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DOUBLE VISIONS produced by John Flomer, featuring Roman Verostko, Art & Artist Series,
1986, © UC Video, Minneapolis Television Network Aired on "Cable Arts Presents"
Rogers Cable System.
About John Flomer, Producer,
John Flomer collaborated with me in the 1970's and 1980's. He composed electronic sound tracks for my synchronized audio visual program: Minnesota in Four Seasons. John had followed one of my 20th Century courses at MCAD. He shared excitement and interest in emerging electronic technologies. He had extensive experience as a professional composer and performing musician preceding his studies at MCAD. His poetic soul, wedded to his music, can be experienced in his Spotted Peccary Music. His visual work leads us to experiences that transcend ordinary daily experience.
Double Visions documents my working studio in 1986 with a full color dot-matrix impact printer driven with an IBM PC. For graphic art the early IBM PC's had two monitors available, one monochromatic monitor for text and another one for visual graphics in color. The sequence includes excerpts from my Magic Hand of Chance and other early 1980's programs. . Viewers will also hear the sound of a raster printer as it prints an image displayed on the PC monitor. One hears the sound of the printer as it prints an image of a screen image; also there are electronic sounds coded with one of the visual sequences. For this documentary John arranged video clips along with selected studio sounds that he welded into avideo display that leads us to experience something beyond the document.
Images below show the "Prism" dot-matrix printer that appears in the video. The print shown was made from a screen dump from one of my early programs. This printer employs a "4 color process" ribbon and the colors on the IBM Graphics card could be coded for the ribbon colors. This "Prism" printer, manufactured by Integrated Data Systems, was featured in the February 1982 issue #21 of "COMPUTE!". "The Centre for Computing History" in Cambridge documents this 1982 Prism feature.
See: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/9031/Integral-Data-Systems-Prism-Printer-Model-132/
Above: The Prism printer with a print in the printing position.
Above: The color codes I mounted on the printer for easy access.
Above: The manufacturer's box containing a new unused 4 color process tape. This was meant to match the inks in 4 color process printing. These were the standard 4 colors used in letterpress printing. Michael Tomaszewski used 4 color process inks with the Vandercook proof press when he hand-pulled the edition of George Boole's Derivation of the Laws.
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