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Yes it's a pretty klunky interface. Easy to miss that there are multiple camera icons to the right of the time slider, and you can switch to see different feeds like the speaker or their slides. It's still kind of hit or miss with some of the speakers, but at least Alan got a chance to test things out and debug all the glitches before his talk, so he didn't end up repeatedly interrupting himself!

Here is the full list of links from the video description to other related and interesting topics.

I can highly recommend smoking a joint and watching James "Doctor Chaos" Crutchfield's "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback" film, which he made at UC Santa Cruz in 1984, building on Ralph Abraham's video feedback experiments there in the 1970s:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kn3djJMCE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kn3djJMCE

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Crutchfield" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Crutchfield

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham_(mathematician)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham_(mathematician)

Kristen Nygaard 100 Years, Celebration Symposium (Aarhus University, Aug 27 2026):

<a href="https://cs.au.dk/nygaard100years/celebration" rel="nofollow">https://cs.au.dk/nygaard100years/celebration

Entire Nygaard Symposium Recording (Alan Kay's talk begins at 3:27:49):

<a href="https://au.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fe0c3b34-90d9-4853-94db-b4b3009fd277&start=12469" rel="nofollow">https://au.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fe0...

Alan Kay:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay

Claude Shannon:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

Information Theory:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

Noisy-Channel Coding Theorem:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem

Audio Feedback:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_feedback" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_feedback

Video Feedback:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_feedback" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_feedback

Live Looping: The History And The Practice, by Stephen Garza:

<a href="http://computermusic2008.wikidot.com/live-looping:history-and-the-practice" rel="nofollow">http://computermusic2008.wikidot.com/live-looping:history-an...

I Am Sitting in a Room:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

Alvin Lucier on "I am sitting in a room":

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9XJWBZBzq4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9XJWBZBzq4