Tabling

Foxing Hour

Fox Burroughs is an artist and toolmaker of analog video synthesizers.

LZX Industries

LZX demonstrates creative tools for video synthesis and image processing.

Video Synthesis Ecosphere

Andrei Jay demonstrates VSERPI instruments like Waaave Pool and Artificial Life and the new VSEDSK software releases.

Vondas Software

Vodas Software, a subsidiary of Schwwaaa, makes tools for artists who use computers at the intersection of cybersecurity, developer tooling, artistic technology, and rapid prototyping. Vondas will introduce their flagship video processing toolkit, mascot, and friend “Videobeaux” along with other products including DropZoneOps, webglo, and Illogica Factory.

Vsynth

Vsynth is a modular toolkit for video and vector synthesis on the Max/Jitter platform.

Syntonie

Syntonie demonstrates analog video synthesizers and processors in Eurorack format.

Liquid Light Lab

Steve Pavlovsky presents live demos of liquid light techniques and equipment for sale, such as oils, glass, transparencies, light sources, and cameras. They will also run a demo of a modified Nintendo Entertainment System.

Mystic Circuits

Mystic Circuits will show off their video oscillator.

Stephen Radley

Stephen Radley is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the cultural shift from an analog to a digital world. Stephen utilizes both obsolete and emerging technology as a way to explore what is lost and gained in this ever-shifting landscape.

DRUGS™

DRUGS™ is a team of artists and engineers who modify video game consoles to generate maximalist glitch art. Combining software programming with circuit bending, their approach prioritizes stability, usability, and pure fun.

Glitchwerks

Glitchwerks are toolmakers specializing in circuit bent cameras.

Learn Not To:

Learn Not To: is a collage of abstract video and audio exploring the joys of obsolete media technology.

Glitch Artists Collective

This small showcase from Glitch Artists Collective highlights the shared signals between analog video art and Glitch Art.   Featuring rdklinc, jonCates, & trizzytrunks.

Installations

Gork_online

The “feedback machine” is a mass of gear that makes feedback patterns!

Madonno Productions

The Retina video synthesizer is a hand-built, one-of-a-kind, analog modular video synthesizer designed and built by Madonno Productions.

Cyclop Toad

In this interactive projection-mapped installation, the viewer can jump on a controller to decide how to see the world, accompanied by inspirational music.

Schwaaa

Schwwaaa, the pioneering global media conglomerate, leads the charge in providing innovative corporate solutions with a commitment to excellence and efficiency. Schwwaaa empowers businesses and communities alike to thrive in an ever-evolving world, creating a better tomorrow for all, today.

Aaron F. Ross (Dr. Yo)

In the age of surveillance capitalism, your TV watches you. Take your mark, the show must go on.

Dr. Rek

Dr. Rek's selected video synthesis work 2022 - 2025 displayed on three professional digital video monitors on a tripod. Recursive video art using modules from LZX Industries, Erogenous Tones, and Video Headroom Systems, as well as video synthesizers from Andrei Jay and Entropy and Sons.

Lia Coleman

A 4-hour liquid lightscape that responds to human interaction—each audience member's breath subtly reshaping its flow. Viewers’ perturbations are recorded in a continuous archive, blurring authorship across time, space, and sound.

Los Datos

Gestures of Sound and Light #2 is a mysteriously interactive immersive sound and light experience by Jesse Mejía, the artist and educator behind the Portland Community College Creative Coding program, MIDI2DMX hardware, unknown atmospheres at Hopscotch, and music released as Los Datos.

Shana Palmer

This interactive installation blends analog and digital systems, using an LZX video synth and Processing sketch controlled by mouse input to generate evolving visuals on a CRT monitor. Visitors are invited to explore real-time image manipulation through tactile engagement with retro display technology.

Allen Riley

Allen will be demoing a prototype of a new video synthesis arcade game called Hypnogenesis that I developed in collaboration with Andy Wallace. The game is developed in openFrameworks and incorporates a customized version of Video Waaaves. The installation will be presented on a tabletop with a 13" CRT monitor and a 24" x 6" x 4" arcade joystick console that will be placed on the table in front of the monitor. The monitor will be placed on a riser to elevate it above the arcade console. The audio for the game will be played through headphones. The game is single player. Players will sit in a chair in front of the table while playing.

Kit Young

Audience members are invited to pose for a real time glitch video portrait.

Alex Pelly

Surface Tension is a multi-channel synced video installation that spatially represents a single channel of audio. The original incarnation was 12 channels of video, this is a mini version with seven channels of video. All video was created through audio-reactive modular video synthesis. The audio was composed with modular and semi-modular audio synths.

Adam Sladek

CRT sculpture with Video Feedback

Presentations

Synopsis Video Art 

Award-winning video artist Denise Gallant presents the background of the the Synopsis video system, which they designed nearly 40 years ago in collaboration with Rob Schafer.  

Vsynth Show & Tell

Developer Kevin Kripper presents a casual show and tell of the latest updates to the Vsynth visual programming toolkit for MAX/Jitter. New tools for video and vector synthesis include the VGA to Oscilloscope module.

History and Process of Liquid Light Shows

Steve Pavlovsky discusses the history of liquid light shows and analog visuals from the 1960’s to today, and demonstrates basic liquid light show techniques.

DRUGS™

Colston Byrd explores the possibilities of a familiar and alien device, the circuit bent PS2 developed by the DRUGS™ team. The project’s founder walks through the creation and use of this psychedelic gaming console.

ISI VP-8: Image Processing with 1970s Analog Computers

Thomas Fang and Matthew Rempes demonstrate the Interpretation Systems Incorporated VP-8 Image Analyzer, an analog computer used for realtime raster and vector image processing in the 1970s.

Creative Entropy: Harnessing Uncertainty in Video Art

Aaron F. Ross, aka Dr. Yo, presents a conceptual overview of randomness and chaos as creative tools in video art.

Processing the Female Form: Co-opting NSFW Online Platforms with Experimental Video Streams

sarah sarah turner turner has been exploring nsfw online distribution sites as way to by-pass censorship on traditional platforms for the last 4 years as a large part of her practice. It has inspired new works, new relationships, and a new dynamic between on-screen and off-screen content creation. 

Analog Operators for Video Synthesis

Lars Larsen of LZX Industries discusses their pursuit of reusable analog building blocks for video synthesis.

Performers

Eva Aguila

Eva Aguila is a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist and facilitator from Los Angeles whose practice spans sound, performance, and installation. Her latest performances incorporate Eurorack synthesizers and field recordings gathered from rural Michoacán, blending technology with cultural storytelling.

Alex Pelly, Andrei Jay, & Lia Coleman

Alex Pelly performs an audio-visual collaboration with Andrei Jay & Lia Coleman using audio synthesizers, modular video synth, cymatics, and liquid light projection. 

Sean Russell Hallowell

Sean Russell Hallowell performs audiovisual music for the medieval hermitage.

Bastien Lavaud and Eric Schlappi

Semi-improvised heavy modular electronics.

Knob Fondler

Eli Pechman performs “Intelligent Bootyshakin’ Music”.

sarah sarah turner turner

Sarah will perform “Dolphin Connection,” inspired by the research of John Lilly.

Screenings

NeimannsLand & Morten Berthelsen, Bjarke Niemann

After Glow (synth version)

NiemannsLand

Chromatic Alchemy, Liquid Mushroom Cloud, Floating Peaks

Aaron F. Ross (Dr. Yo)

Christofascist, reality collapse, The Eternal Recurrence of Unique Conditions

cyberboy666 & jhl

Outlier Festival Excerpt 3

cyberboy666 & bj leo

Outlier Festival Excerpt 2

cyberboy666 & jannah quill

Outlier Festival Excerpt 1

Andrei Jay

glandular commander,  ULTRATERRESTRIAL Titles

James Connolly & Monica Panzarino

Eight-Minute Romp Through SAIC's Sandin Image Processor

Monica Panzarino

Colorful Colorado Nails

Steve Pavlovsky

Liquid Light Lab Reel Pt.1, Liquid Light Lab Reel Pt.2

Agamemnon Juunes

Cooking School FAQ! Episode 1: Poultry

schwwaaa

Do you yo?, illogica factory

cskonopka

psychogalatictransitioningamongstgases

Will Erokan

a lake appears in death valley, Breathing Through The Skin, WOODPECKER2016

Ed Mellnik

sleeper, the door