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California Video At the Getty Center, March 15, 2008 – June 8, 2008

All events are free, unless otherwise noted. Seating reservations are required. For reservations and information, please call (310) 440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu.

SCREENING SERIES This series of six evening screenings coincides with the Video exhibition on view from March 15 through June 8, 2007. Each program is organized by a guest curator and expresses an alternate view of the diverse history of in California. These programs will also be available for viewing in the exhibition’s Video Study Room.

Memory Inversion Rita Gonzalez, artist and assistant curator, Special Exhibitions, at the County Museum of Art, hosts a program that focuses on video art from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Critical theory, collage, and allusions to literature, television, and cinematic genres characterize videos from this era as artists pushed video into freeform essayistic modes. The program features videos by Lawrence Andrews, Collage Ensemble, Steve Fagin, Jeanne C. Finley, Erika Suderberg, and Tran T. Kim Trang, among others. Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

Media/Concept/Art Bob Riley, independent curator and founder of the Department of Media Arts at the Museum of Modern Art, investigates the legacy of and its relationship to video in California. By adapting vaudeville and experimental postwar theater— including radical forms of public dissent that characterized the era—to the stage of the television image, artists set a precedent for subjectivity in art as the video environment and means of production expanded. Featuring work by Karen Finley, Howard Fried, the Kipper Kids, Marlon Riggs, and others. Wednesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

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L.A. Video: Uncensored Artist Bruce Yonemoto offers an overview of the underside of an urban Los Angeles often glimpsed but rarely seen. Many of the works in this program were originally programmed for a Valentine’s Day event at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and have since been featured at other festival venues. The prevailing 1980s culture of pre-AIDS sex, drugs, cultural theory, and rock ‘n’ roll made its way into the Valentine Video program. Participating artists felt a freedom to show works without the restrictions imposed by television, film content, or the ever-present museum/gallery curatorial complex. Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

TV Art Kathy Rae Huffman, visual arts director of Cornerhouse and former curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art, hosts a screening that includes works inspired and influenced by an aesthetic commentary on television. All were broadcast in the 1970s and 1980s. The screening includes works by Ante Bozanich, Nancy Buchanan, , Alba Cane, Jaime Davidovich, Hildegarde Duane, John Duncan, Doug Hall, Peter Ivers, Mickey McGowan, Jody Procter and Chip Lord, Ilene Segalove, Richard Serra, Mitchell Syrop, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. Wednesday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

Without Imagination There Is No Will: The Woman’s Building Tapes Organized by Los Angeles–based artist Meg Cranston, this program presents a selection of rarely screened video works produced at the Los Angeles Woman's Building in the 1970s. Founded in 1973, the Woman’s Building was a downtown Los Angeles hub for feminist thought, discussion, mobilization, social support, creativity, and art making. The Feminist Studio Workshop provided resources to female artists, including a number of early Sony Portapak video cameras. The tapes that emerged from the program reflect the insight and urgency with which feminist artists were making their voices heard. Wednesday, May 21, 7:30 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

I’ll Be Your Mirror: Works about Celebrity Steve Seid, senior video curator, Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, celebrates the Golden State’s most renewable resource: celebrity, pure and simple. The works in this screening—which consider celebrity to be one of California’s principal exports— function as obstacles in the easy manufacture and circulation of fame and desire. Featuring works by Anne McGuire, Lucas Michael, Karla Milosevich, Leslie Singer, Scott Stark, and others. Wednesday, May 28, 7:30 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

CONVERSATION The David Ross Show David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum, welcomes special guest , as well as Glenn Phillips, curator of the California Video exhibition. Other artists featured in the Getty exhibition join them for really good conversation. Thursday, April 3, 7:00 p.m. Harold M. Williams Auditorium

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SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS Nina Sobell’s Interactive Electroencephalographic Video Drawings In 1973, artist Nina Sobell began a collaboration with Veteran’s Administration Hospital neuropsychologists to translate electroencephalogram (EEG) readings taken from two subjects into a live video image, resulting in the installation Interactive Electroencephalographic Video Drawings. While Sobell has continued to update the project using current technologies, the installation has been re-created for California Video using its original 1973 appearance. Wired with EEG sensors, participants sit in a living-room-like environment while observing a composite image of their brainwaves on a closed-circuit monitor. Same-day signups are required. Fridays and Saturdays, 6:00–9:00 p.m. Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall, The Getty Center

Hotbed, Video Cultivation beside the Getty Gardens By Anne Bray, Director of Freewaves Projected onto the exterior walls of the Getty Center, 21 artists' videos from 1984 to 2007 explore the theme of the body as nature or culture. Spectacularly displayed between the architecture and gardens, viewers stroll the grounds from the tram to the cactus garden in this special 2-evening installation. Friday–Saturday, May 9–10, 6–9 p.m. Getty Center

GALLERY COURSES California Video: Artists and Histories Join exhibition curator Glenn Phillips, senior project specialist, Getty Research Institute, in a series of screenings, lectures, and discussions examining the history of video art in California. This two-part course focuses on individual artists as case studies and will feature a number of rarely-screened works. Complements the exhibition California Video. Course fee $30; $20 students. Open to 140 participants. Part I: April 12, 1:00–4:00pm; John Baldessari, Paul Kos, Cynthia Maughan, Wolfgang Stoerchle Part II: April 19, 1:00–4:00pm; Skip Arnold, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Dale Hoyt, Mike Kelley Museum Lecture Hall

TALKS Exhibition Introduction Join a museum educator before or after your visit to the California Video exhibition to hear a brief overview and participate in a 15-minute question and answer session. Meet at the Museum Information Desk. Tuesdays–Sundays, April 1–June 8, 2008, 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

VISIT WWW.GETTY.EDU View excerpts from most of the video works in this exhibition on our Web site. You can also explore biographies of the artists, read the curator's interpretations of the videos, and find more information about related events.

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RELATED PUBLICATIONS Publications are available in the Getty Museum Store, by calling (800) 223-3431 or (310) 440- 7059, or online at www.getty.edu/bookstore.

California Video Artists and Histories Edited by Glenn Phillips With essays by Meg Cranston, Rita Gonzalez, Kathy Rae Huffman, Robert Riley, Steve Seid, and Bruce Yonemoto. This fully illustrated catalogue includes thirty-five recent interviews that shed new light on many of the featured artists, informative essays, rare reprints, and unpublished video transcripts. (Cloth, $39.95)

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