If you're looking for corporate office digs, leased furniture and praphic repros on the walls, you've come to the wrong place. No corporate profiles or head shots here; no group pictures, and certainly a lot of weird hand-built machines for imaging the imagination. No million-dollar art co-op digs here, not like Western Front, Video In, Videographe, etc. all funded by state cultural largesse. This was an independent studio in Vancouver B.C. for works by Al Razutis - depicted here from the early 70's. Interaction with other artists and their projects was a natural activity. Here, the first holograms, optical printer, video synthesizer, and other technologies, media courses, film image-exchange library were built and offered in Vancouver. These technologies built by Razutis (and acknowledged others) joined a personal curriculum or Tesla-alchemical-beyondmerephysical interests best described as 'Visual Alchemy', 1972-1978, and incorporated. In more academic environments (SFU - 1978-1987) Razutis and 'Visual Alchemy' took on expressedly political interests in his film arts and expressions, as per examples below.