Eight Minute Romp Through SAIC's Sandin Image Processor

2024, 8:12, HD video, collaboration with Monica Panzarino, 2024

An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s 1973 video, Five-minute Romp through the IP, in which Sandin demos the Image Processor (IP), a modular analog video synthesizer he built the same year, and encouraged artists to copy in his Distribution Religion manifesto. In this video, artists James Connolly and Monica Panzarino perform with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's IP, a historic tool, as it was one of the first image processors built by Sandin. The artists wear recreations of the unique hat Sandin wore in his 1973 video, which are hand-knit by Panzarino. This piece celebrates the physicality of hardware electronics and the DIY spirit of all things handmade.

James Connolly from the shoulder's up facing the left wearing a recreation of Dan Sandin's hat tall hat from his 1973 'Romp Through the IP' video, processed on the Sandin Image Processor to have bright colors and broken imagery.

Video synthesis imagery showing interlocking white, cyan, and magenta zigzagging colors with a James Connolly and Moniza Panzarino discernable in the beneath.

Monica Panzarino from the shoulder's up facing the right wearing a recreation of Dan Sandin's hat tall hat from his 1973 'Romp Through the IP' video, processed on the Sandin Image Processor to have bright colors and broken imagery.

James Connolly and Monica Panzarino performing the Sandin Image Processor, processed on the Sandin Image Processor to appear pink, purple, green, and blue with broken imagery.