While working into the television medium, artists had also attempted to experiment more into the technology of the camera itself, creating new works of expressive imaginary that in turn would be usurped by mainstream media and advertising. Artists such as Ed Emshwiller, Dan Sandin, and Kieth Sonnier would all take part in manipulating the camerawork in order to create exotic photographic works of art. Sonnier used an old Scanimate to make image collages including Painted Foot:Black Light (1970), Color Wipe (1973), and Animation II (1974). These abstract shapes and colors portrayed on the screen act as a metaphor to properties of physical paintings seen in classical forms of art.
The husband-wife team that was Stenia and Woody Vasulka worked on projects such as Home and Golden Voyage, 1973, both were made through manipulating the colorizing and electronic imaginary methods used withing video functions.
Other related works include:
Woody Vasulka Art of Memory, 1987
Objects, 1978
Transformations
Inspired by this, artist Nam Jun Paik preformed a similar technique in his work through a device named The Paik/Abe Synthesizer, which was designed for manipulating video image and colorization. This would eventually produce one of his works: Butterfly, in 1986.
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