colour organs
Isaac Newton’s colour circle, and Louis Bertrand Castel’s ‘Clavecin Oculaire’
![Newton's colour circle (1704).](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/newtoncircle.jpg)
Alexander Wallace Rimington, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt
![A.W.Rimington and his colour organ.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/rimington.gif)
![Colour instrument invented by Mary Hallock Greenewalt.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/113-321x494.jpg)
Thomas Wilfred
![Opus 158 by Thomas Wilfred (1963-64).](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/139b-494x323.jpg)
abstract film
First experiments by Arnaldo Ginna and Bruno Corra
First preserved films by Viking Eggeling and Walther Ruttmann
Oskar Fischinger as a central figure.
![Still from 'Alegretto' by Oskar Fischinger (1932).](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/allegretto.jpg)
John and James Whitney, Jordan Belson, Harry Smith
![Still from 'Samadhi' by Jordan Belson.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/belsonsamadhi.jpg)
synthetic video
Eric Siegel
Dan Sandin, Rutt-Etra and Steven Beck
![Dan Sandin and his Image Processor.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/301.jpg)
the return of the modular video synthesizer
interactive software
Scott Snibbe, Golan Levin, Scott Draves
VJ-ing and live cinema
synesthesia and analogy
– some people are synesthetes
(famous examples are Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen)
– studied by science since 1920’s, some correspondences are arbitrary, some are not
– analogies are fundamental for how we think
Analogy as a way to invent a new art form.
![Overview of colour-scales compiled by Fred Collopy.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/503-494x286.gif)
![Maluma-Takete experiment by Wolfgang Koehler (1927).](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/504-494x298.jpg)