Class Assignment

The video opens with visual feedback and various sounds including snoring, whistling, and other generated audio. The video then slowly transitions into Phil Morton’s monologue and a solarized image. Phil is in front of video equipment racks at the Governors State University—a public university in University Park, Illinois. He starts by discussing events at the school, and then draws the viewers’ attention to the video waveform behind him as he sways. He says that “all things in the universe are so interconnected,” and ends up in laughter. 

Phil talks about his upcoming birthday on April 22. Six hours before turning thirty, he talks about “predictive control,” and that he produced a film five years ago to “predict” himself quitting smoking. After this introspective interrogation, he connects this idea with videos’ “real-time feedback control.” 

Vignettes with audio feedback and video processing follow, and the video concludes with Phil giving his students an assignment.

–Gordon Dic-Lun Fung

For more information, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive page. 

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