“Portal” by Ackerman
Conference:
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Title:
- Portal
Director(s):
Description:
If DNA is the stuff that souls are made of, then there must be a door through their structure to all eternity and an understanding of a time continuum.
Software:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Specially developed by the artist
Additional Contributors:
Music: Drew Neumann, Eric Rasmussan
Voice samples of Vivian Miller
Motion control computer: Geoff Fennell
Produced at: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1984
Additional Information:
Format: 5:00; 16mm; sound
Technical notes:
Special anti-aliasing techniques were developed.
Animation was achieved through cycles on an
optical printer. Music was created using PCM
storage from an eight channel mix of Jupiter-6
and memory Moog keyboards.