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blueMoonBurning by jonCates Includes “MOON ORIGINAL DATA” shot by Phil Morton on Sony Video Portapak, the first portable analog video tape recording system (1967), recorded to open reel videotape, preserved as archival footage from the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive by jonCates, digitized by the VIdeo Data Bank; processing via Somfay’s HITHER DITHER Glitch Art machine with analog video cameras, CRTs, analog-to-digital transcoders, and Media Art Hystories.
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"Phil Morton (1945 - 2003) established the first video department in the country to offer both BA and MFA degrees in video production. In subsequent years Morton continued to expand the media resources and educational opportunities at the School of the Art Institute, establishing the Video Data Bank as a collection of videotaped presentations and interviews with artists in 1972." - Video Data Bank
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COPY-IT-RIGHT is a license invented by Phil Morton in 1973. Similar to Creative Commons 0 (CC0) and Public Domain, COPY-IT-RIGHT allows for free unrestricted use and open access. COPY-IT-RIGHT anticipates the development of Open Source cultures and encourages creativity. Make faithful copies, care for them, and distribute as widely as possible.
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Dedicated to my ancestors, most especially Phil Morton, who made all of this possible, but never intended it to be this way, and Barb Abramo whose generous gift of his ‘personal data bank’ of over 500 video tapes and files preserved and protected the archive and these Media Art Hystories for this and future generations of artists.
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