Obscura and VJ's

A key pioneer in the mid-1960s was Scottish artist Mark Boyle, who died earlier this year. On December 23rd 1966, Boyle and his wife Joan Hills performed "Son et Lumiere for Earth, Air, Fire and Water" at London's fashionable UFO Club. Boyle used powerful Aldis projectors to magnify and project chemical reactions — the death throes of insects and the shapes made by body fluids like semen and vomit. He was influenced by the LSD-fuelled visuals of Jo Cannon, often called "the fifth member of Pink Floyd",