# 💡 Inspiring Works & References

### Videos

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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/flKVGyEpWKI?si=N_tQAma36gEHrG6i" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VuaqWvYvdm4?si=o61dHgUevO4RopFG" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tbfjdEEIFTQ?si=R8NsIHieTQOc4PWg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3uzxcl_d8uk?si=aWlJm7ZCLiDfh5IN" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

<iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/536042431?h=e660437bed" width="640"></iframe>

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/220073615?h=049a269a09" title="vimeo-player" width="640"></iframe>

<iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/69814319?h=3c239909ec&portrait=0" width="640"></iframe>

^[an article about this piece](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x4kej/an-experiment-in-video-feedback-jonathan-brainins-pendulum-video)

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/il5s8VbhyRM?si=okZK8euAAmEx7OLX" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/502YvYZI7bk?si=lhup35YtpNk3iDan" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dUCXZV96l9A?si=T1KoCbThLPujNsqm" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

### Readings

- [Space-Time Dynamics of Video Feedback - James P. Crutchfield (1984)](https://archive.org/details/SpaceTimeDynamicsOfVideoFeedback/mode/1up) - [PDF](https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/Crutchfield.PhysicaD1984.pdf) &amp; [Accompanying Video](https://youtu.be/MbhDBqa5CB0?si=8N97OvDS8PrrJiV-)
    - A paper addressing Video Feedback and the phenomena from the perspective of physics
- [Physics:Video feedback on HandWiki](https://handwiki.org/wiki/Physics:Video_feedback)  
    
    - Contains an explanation as well as some history &amp; context
- [Getting Started with Video Feedback by Andrei Jay](https://andreijaycreativecoding.com/getting_started-with-video-feedback)
- [I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (Goodreads)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123471.I_Am_a_Strange_Loop)
    - [A review of this book in Scientific American summarizing the topic of video feedback as a model for understanding human consciousness](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-journey-into-hofsta/)

History

- [Illuminatin' Sweeney](https://archive.org/details/illuminatin-sweeney_13534_pm0047503) - documentary on video feedback artist Skip Sweeney, 1975 
    - [Skip Sweeney Bio](https://www.exploratorium.edu/arts/artists/skip_sweeney) (Exploratorium)
- [Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child opening sequence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sro26UN7AnQ), 1963
- [Earth, Wind &amp; Fire: September music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk), 1978
- [Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKuJUxGntRI), 1979
- [Steina and Woody Vasulka](https://monoskop.org/Steina_and_Woody_Vasulka) (Monoskop)
- [Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt / Pioneers of Electronic Art](https://monoskop.org/images/1/11/Dunn_David_ed_Pioneers_of_Electronic_Art.pdf#page=148), Ars Electronica 1992