Video Feedback

Video feedback is continual and processual series of digital images created by the electronic imagery itself. It is a process that starts and continues when a video camera is pointed at its playback on a video monitor. The image from the camera is delayed slightly in time as it travels through the extensive circuitry of the recording system and then is output to the video playback monitor. Video feedback is not invented; it is a digital phenomena as the form of a dynamic flow of imagery created by the digital world itself.

VanDerBeek gained great significance in his video feedback experiments. Good examples can be found in his work Poemfield NO.2, stared from 4:25. He's trying to create new graphic and new images by the corresponds between videos and movies. He explored the visual possibility of the mix of media, raising the question of what is the illusion? What is the reality? What is magic? He's testing the power of images created exclusively in the digital visual media. By creating a new combination of computer imagery and digital imagery, VanDerBeek expanded a new visual world and a new cultural environment. He explored the relationship between man and machines, and then investigated the video feedback as a new language form.
Also, in Euclidean Illusions, the video feedback started from 1:01. The beautiful image flows suggested the infinite spaces and times in the digital imagery. The unpredictable patterns grow inside the projected picture, creating an endless power box at the same time. The video feedback reminded viewers about the mysterious of digital creation, and its unpredictable power, and also the sense of uncontrollable. The infinite spaces brought up an infinite amount of energy to the media itself. Then let the audience to analyze the current relationship between human and the digital.