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Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History Groove, Global Village, ... Videofreex, Radical Software, The Kitchen, Global Media Bum, People's closed circuit video, portapaks, Challenge for Change, Video Manual, Video Theater, Wipe Cycle, feedback, The Spaghetti City Expanded Cinema, multi-channel installations, Four More Years, The TV Lab, Museum, video Electronic Arts Intermix, VdeolTelevision Review, Everson synthesizers, Rockefeller Foundation, Guerrilla Television..... tantalizing are not "a blast from the past" but rather these names day-long of a remote and hidden history, then welcome to a fragments funders, designed to introduce curators, critics, librarians, archivists, seminar independent video in students, and interested others to the early history of artists,f day of screenings, (1965-1980) . This session will offer an intensive America Screenings will and presentations by and about video pioneers. discussions, that illustrate selections of significant video art and documentary tapes include of early video. the diverse interests, styles, and approaches some of and information Presentations will explore how this new medium for art, activism, new technology developed by artist-innovators, video collectives, was television producers, to manufacturers, funders, museum curators, and public name a few of the key players. may cover: how video Depending upon participant interests, discussion with the fine arts; the differentiated itself from network television and affiliated among video's early of cable TV; the importance of collectives; differences role video aesthetics; the rise black-and-white and color formats and their impact on theory to prevailing theories of of women's video; the relationship of early video include: Barbara London, cybernetics and social change, etc. Guests media, the museum's Video, The Museum of Modem Art; and founder of Curator of Raindance and TVTV, ; Paul Ryan, McLuhan Fellow, member of video program Mind: Art, author of Cybernetics of the Sacred and Video Mind/Earth and member of the Communications, and Ecology, and Parry Teasdale, founding Video Manual and and Media Bus and author of The Spaghetti City Videofreex America's First Pirate forthcoming Vldeofreex. A Memoir of LanesvNe TV, the author of Subject to Television Station. Seminar organizer: Deirdre Boyle, : Securing the Future of Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, Video Preservation Documentary Topes . the Past and Video Classics: Video Art and Selected Bibliography for Early Video Dutton, 1978. Battcock, Gregory, New Artists Video: A Critical Anthology, . 1972. Bateson, Gregory, Steps to an Ecology ofMind, Ballantine Revisited, Oxford Boyle, Deirdre, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television University Press, 1997. Tapes, Oryx Press, --, Video Classics A Guide to Video Art and Documentary 1986. Television, 1972. Brice, Howard, Wdeospace, National Center for Experiments in Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Brown, Les, Television: The Business Behind the Box, 1971 . for a New Television D'Agostino, Peter, ed., Transmission: Theory andPractice Aesthetics, Tanam Press, 1985. A Public/Private Art, Davis, Doug and Allison Simmons, eds., The New Television: MIT Press, 1977 . Philadelphia, 1975. Delahanty, Suzanne, Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Americans in Vietnam, Fitzgerald, Frances, Are in the Lake: The Wetnomese and Little, Brown, 1972. Earth, Simon & Schuster, Fuller, R. Buckminster, Operating Manual forSpaceship 1969. Image-Processed Tapes," Furlong, Lucinda, "Notes Toward a History of Afterimage, Summer 1983. Gale, Peggy, ed., Video ByArtists, Art Metropole, 1976. Foundation, 1976. Gill, Johanna, Video: The State of the Art, Rockefeller Basic Books, Gordon, Terrence, Marshall McLuhan, Escape into Understanding, 1997 . Visual Studies Hanhardt, John, ed., Video Culture: A CriticalInvestigation, Workshop, 1986. W.W.Norton, 1982. --, Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art and 1991 . Heims, Steve Joshua, The Cybemetic Group, MIT Press, 1772 (sic) . Hoffman, Abbie, Steal This Book, Abbie Yo-Yo Productions, ofArt, 1974- Huffman, Kathy Rae, Video: A Retrospective/Long Beach Museum 84, City of Long Beach, 1984. Bantam, 1970. Johnson, Nicholas, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set, Abrams, 1966. Kaprow, Allan, Assemblage, Environments, andHappenings, The Museum of London, Barbara, ed ., Bill V14o1c. Installations and Videotapes, Modern Art, 1987. Art, 1997. ~, Video Spaces: Eight Installations, The Museum of Modem Marsh, Ken, Independent Video, Straight Arrow Books, 1974. Press, 1962. McLuhan, Marshall, Gutenberg Galaxy. University of Toronto --, Understanding Media, McGraw Hill, 1964. Media Bus, Cooperstown TV is a Museum, Media Bus, 1973. Portable TV Production Michael, The Videotape Book, A Basic Guide to Murray, Bantam, 1975 for Families, Friends, Schools, and Neighborhoods, Itself, New American Library, Price, Jonathan, Video Visions. A Medium Discovers 1977. Long Beach Museum of Art, Ross, David, Southland Video Anthology. 1976-77, 1977. Anchor, 1974. Ryan, Paul, Cybernetics of the Sacred, Doubleday and Ecology, Peter Lang -, Video Mind, Earth Mind.'An`, Communications, Press, 1993. Circulation (includes Video Wake -, Fire Water Father (with Jim Ryan) Private Text), 1996. Guerrilla Television, Holt, Shamberg, Michael and Raindance Corporation, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 . Anthology, Harcourt Brace Schneider, Ira and Beryl Korot, eds., Video Art.' An Jovanovich, 1976. Electronic Communications Smith, Ralph Lee, The Wired Nation, Cable TV. The Highway, Harper & Row, 1972. Wise and Video Art," Sturken, Marita, "TV as a Creative Medium : Howard Afterimage, May 1985. TV, America's First Pirate Teasdale, Parry, Videofreex A Memoir ofLanesville Television Station, Black Dome Press, 1999 . Toffler, Alvin, Future Shock, Bantam, 1970. Video by Artists 2, Art Metropole, Town, Elke, ofElectronic Vasulka, Woody and Steina, EAgenwelt deiApparate-Welt/Pioneers Art, Ars Electronica, 1992. 1973. Videofreex, The Spaghetti City Video Manual, Praeger, Cybernetics and Society, Wiener, Norbert, The Human Use ofHuman Beings Avon, 1967. University of Toronto Press, Willmott, Glenn, McLuhan, orModernism in Reverse, 1996. Winn, Marie, The Plug-In Drug, Viking, 1977. Youngblood, Gene, Expanded Cinema, Dutton, 1970. 1983. The Media Arts in Transition, Walker Arts Center, (1970-72), Afterimage, Back issues of the following journals: Radical Software (defunct), Millenium Film Journal, Avalanche Newspaper IdefunctI, Televisions etc. Video Rewind Participants Art's ongoing video exhibition program Barbara Lodon founded The Museum of Modern Curator statements being made internationally in video in 1974. She has built a context for the visionary emerging talents, and more established artists such as and media art by multicultural voices, Bill Idemitsu, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Nam June Palk, and Laurie Anderson, Gary Hill, Mako art mediums. been to link the electronic arts with the more traditional Viola. Her objective has the Video Study preserve, and support this vital art field, she helped establish To document, 000 independently-produced and assembled its unique collection of more than 1, Center publications. She took two sabbaticals to videotapes and related historical and theoretical technologies and their effect on the creation and investigate new trends in electronic between arts . She is committed to developing new partnerships distribution of the arts in Japan "Internyet: A Curator's organizations. Her most recent web site publications are and corporate t (1998) and "Stir-fry: ACurator's Dispatches from Russia and Ukraine," www.moma.org/internye Dispatches from China," www.moma.org/stir-fry (1997) . Mcluhan as a Fellow at Fordham University In 1967-68, Paal Byafa worked directly with Marshall video. His work, "Everyman's Moebius Strip," was shown in where he began experimenting with consultant titled "TV as a creative Medium." He was the first video the 1969 Howard Wise show group known as Council on the Arts. A participant in the alternate video to the New York State based on video in the Ryan conceptualized and initiated a utopian community Raindance, Turkey, France, Germany, Holland, . His video art work has been presented in Japan, early'70s for an Environmental Television Channel has Spain and throughout the United States. His design authored Cybernetics of the Sacred (Doubleday, been presented at the United Nations. Ryan His Lang Press, 1993) and Fre Waterfather (with Jim Ryan) . 1974), Video Mind, Earth Mind (Peter Millennium, numerous journals including RadicalSoftware, IS Journal, articles have appeared in published by NASA. He is and Tetra Nova. His Earthscore Notational System was Leonardo, Studies Program at the New currently a member of the core faculty in the Graduate Media School for Social Research in New York City. called Videofreex, Inc. From 1969 through parry Teasdale was a founding member of a group and technicians of this collective and its successor the mid-'70s, the artists, producers limits its pushed emerging, low-cost video technology beyond the organization, Media Bus, and nonsense first in creating a large library of tapes, installations, events makers anticipated, start Lanesville TV, the nation's City, and later in Lanesville, NY. He led the effort to New York City Video Manual (Praeger, 1973), as well first pirate TV station in 1972, and he wrote Spaghetti He subsequently served as a consultant to the as numerous articles for contemporary journals. Commission Low Power TV Task Force and is currently
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