New frontiers of the moving image
Meeting with Woody Vasulka and Gene Youngblood
Milan, May 1991

The meeting with Gene Youngblood focused on the communication revolution. The radical change in communication technology, prospected by Gene Youngblood, demands a re-definition of socio-political relationships. The revolution is thus not linked only to technology but also to the expansion of human relationships, above all in relation to interactive systems.
Woody Vasulka, meanwhile, discussed the concept of "virtual space" and the key role played by computers internally and externally. Vasulka pointed out that although the computer was not created to represent images and sounds but rather as a machine to organise numbers, those very numbers and their infinite combinations, could represent sounds as well as images and the letters of the alphabet. Computers add value as a means of representing moving images as well as suggesting an ulterior, virtual dimension.