Analog Video is obsolete. Every video artist relying on gear built 20-30-50 years ago has to deal with repair and maintenance at some point in their existence. But what does it mean to repair something when you want it to be broken? Analog Glitch Video is a world where developing, maintaining, and inventing new ways to keep your gear in various states of disrepair is the goal. In this workshop we will introduce folks to Analog Video Synthesis and Glitch video in a friendly, hands-on environment.

cool things we will cover:
- brief histories of analog video art and glitch art and the natural tensions that arrive through the necessities of misusing and repurposing decaying and obsolete technologies
- natural glitching and artefacting within NTSC video signals through standard and decaying gear
- horizontal sync and vertical sync and how to lose it
- dirty mixing and basic breadboarding projects for disturbing analog video in the comfort of your Home.

This class will be a mixture of lecture, examples, and hands-on exploration. Please be prepared to be on your feet and moving around for most of the duration. There will be unavoidable exposure to flickering and flashing lights during this workshop. Feel free to contact me about bringing your own glitch video device, so long as you are cool with sharing it with others for the duration of the class. You can reach me at ex.zee.ex at gmail.com

About the instructor:
Andrei Jay is a mathematician, video artist and educator. They have developed open source video synthesis hardware and software like Waaave Pool and and the Video Waaaves suite, taught video synthesis workshops from Brooklyn to San Francisco and many places in between, and has been a featured guest lecturer at CalArts, NYU, SVA, and Wesleyan amongst other institutions.