Barbara Buckner (b. 1950, Chicago, Illinois) employed analogue image processing tools such as multi-channel keyers and colorizer, as well as a Z-80 microcomputer and analogue-to-digital / digital-to-analogue frame buffer to produce the video Greece to Jupiter: It’s a Matter of Energy (1982). A combination of several key layers and colorizer channels produced variations in texture, colour and luminosity, as the Z-80 computer digitized and ‘drew’ the video raster over time. The work suggests a state of transition, a passage through space and time – from the structured forms of Greece – to Jupiter, beyond our terrestrial world.
Millennia (1981) introduces a visual language characterized by universality, symbolism and repetition. The work explores what Buckner has referred to as ‘spiritual undercurrents,’ whilst appearing distinctly digital. To produce Millennia, Buckner used the computer to sequence and arrange the images in grids. The absence of sound is intended to emphasize the rhythmic patterns of the imagery.