Professor Dr. Bjorn Hallstrom
Director of the Institute of Technology of Artistic Materials,
Royal Swedish Academy Art School
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In the short history of video animation the Swedish artists TURE SJOLANDER and BROR WIKSTROM are the pioneers. Their television art programme ' TIME ' (1965 - 1966) seems to be the first distortion of video-scan-line rasters achieved by applying tones from wave form generators.
For almost ten years they have been using electronic image-making equipment for a non-traditional statement. It must be kept in mind, however that SJOLANDER and WIKSTROM have a traditional and solid artistic background. Howard Klein likens the relationship between the video artist and his hardware to that between Ingres and the graphite pencil. It should be added that real artists like SJOLANDER and WIKSTROM have a natural relationship to any image-making equipment. In that respect they differ from most cameramen and tape makers and they may come back some day as pioneers in other fields of art.
In fact they have already surpassed the limits of video and TV using the electronic hardware to produce pictures which can be applied as prints, wall paintings and tapestries.

They have generously provided new possibilities to other artists, they are not working alone on a monument of their own.
It is significant that the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts has decided to support SJOLANDER and WIKSTROM financially.
Professor Bjorn Hallstrom
Stockholm - 1976
PORTRAIT OF BILLY KLYVER 2001
Studio/Residence VILLA CEDERSDAL STOCKHOLM
 Studio KUNGL. BORGEN STOCKHOLM
Above: Ture Sjolander's Residence and Studio  at Villa Cedersdal, Sveaplan,  in  Stockholm City
in  the beginning of the 80,s. and  below his  Studio at  Kungliga Borgen, Greve von Essen vag - Gardet, Stockholm until 1988.
The Studio Video-Nu 1982
And Who was Nam June Paik ? The journalist could not even spell his name nor did we know who he was...1966 Swedish Main Newspaper
TIME 1966
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From Left: Bror Wikstrom and Ture Sjolander
Bror Wikstrom and Ture Sjolander 1966 in studio making "TIME" INVENTED VIDEO ART
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