Video: a Selected Chronology, 1963-1983
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Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983 By Barbara London The chronology that follows highlights some of the major events that have helped to shape independent video in the United States. Although institutions 'rave provided the context for video, it is he artists' contributions that are of the ~reatest importance. 1963 Exhibitions/Events New York. Television De-Coli/age by WolfVostell, Smolin Gallery. First U.S. environmental installation using a tele vision set. 1964 Television/Productions Boston. Jazz Images, WGBH-TV. Producer, Fred Barzyk. Five short -isualizations of music for broadcast; me of the first attempts at experimental television. 1965 Exhibitions/Events New York. Electronic Art by Nam June Downloaded by [George Washington University] at 20:00 03 February 2015 Paik, Galeria Bonino. Artist's first gal lery exhibition in U.S. New Cinema Festival I (Expanded Cinema Festival), The Film-Makers Cinematheque. Organized by John Brockman. Festival explores uses of mixed-media projection, including vid eo,sound, and light experiments. 966 xhibitions/Events ew York. 9 Evenings: Theater and ngineering, 69th Regiment Armory. rganized by Billy Kliiver. Mixed edia performance events with collabo ation between ten artists and forty ngineers. Video projection used in ,. orks of Alex Hay, Robert Rauschen rg, David Tudor, Robert Whitman. elma Last Year by Ken Dewey, New Bruce Nauman, Live Taped Video Corridor, 1969-70. Installation at the Whitney ork Film Festival at Lincoln Center, Museum, New York. Fall 1985 249 Philharmonic Hall Lobby. Multichan of Art. 1969 nel video installation with photographs The Machine as Seen at the End ofthe Exhibitions/Events by Bruce Davidson, music by Terry Mechanical Age, The Museum of Mod Riley. ern Art. Director of exhibition, Pontus New York. TV as a Creative Medium, Hulten. Exhibition includes video art Howard Wise Gallery. First American 1967 particularly Nam June Paik's Nixo~ exhibition devoted entirely to video art. Exhibitions/Events Tape. McLuhan Caged. and Lindsay Works by Serge Boutourline, Frank Gil Minneapolis. Light/Motion/Space, Tape on unique tape-loop device. lette and Ira Schneider. Nam June Paik Walker Art Center in collaboration with Time Situation by David Lamelas in (with Charlotte Moorman), Earl Rei Howard Wise Gallery, New York. Trav "Beyond Geometry," Center for Inter back, Paul Ryan, John Seery, Eric Sie els to Milwaukee Art Center. Includes American Relations. An installation gel, Thomas Tadlock, Aldo Tambellini, video works by Nam June Paik, Aldo using television monitors in exhibition Joe Weintraub. Tambellini, and others. sponsored by the Instituto Torcuato di Los Angeles. Corridor by Bruce Nau New York. Festival of Lights, Howard Tella, Buenos Aires. man, Nicholas Wilder Gallery. Installa Wise Gallery. Exhibition of kinetic light Washington, D.C. Cybernetic Serendip tion with video. works that include video works by Serge ity: The Computer and the Arts, The Organizations Boutourline, Nam June Paik, Aldo Corcoran Gallery. Travels to Palace of Cambridge. Centerfor Advanced Visual Tambellini, and others. Art and Science, San Francisco. Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Rockefeller Foundation awards first Director of exhibition, Jasia Reichardt. Exhibition originated at Institute of Technology (MIT). Established for art video fellowship. ists to explore art and technology. Contemporary Art, London; American Electronic Blues by Nam June Paik Founded by Gyorgy Kepes. Director, showing augmented by work selected by in "Lights in Orbit," Howard Wise Otto Piene. Gallery. Viewer-participation video James Harithas. Includes video work by Nam June Paik. New York. Channel One. Video theater installation. offering comic programming featuring Television/Productions Organizations Chevy Chase. Director, Ken Shapiro. Technical Director, Eric Siegel. Boston. WGBH-TV inaugurates artist New York. Black Gate Theater, for elec in-residence program with grant from tromedia events, and Gate Theater, for Global Village. Begins as video collec the Rockefeller Foundation. experimental independent cinema tive with information and screening cen ter. Becomes media center devoted to What's Happening, Mr. Silver? Founded by Aldo Tambellini. ~GBH-TV. Commediation. Video production independent video production with em Host, David Silver. Exper phasis on video documentary. Founded imental collage/information series in group. Original members: David Cort, by John Reilly, Ira Schneider, Rudi which several dozen inputs are mixed Frank Gillette, Howard Gudstadt, Ken Stern. Directors, John Reilly and Julie live and at random. Marsh, Harvey Simon. Ends 1969. Gustafson. San Francisco. Experimental Television Young FilmekersfVideo Arts. Educa Raindance Corporation. Collective Workshop, KQED-TV. Directors, Brice tional organization with training ser vices, workshops, production facilities. formed for experimental production. In Howard and Paul Kaufman. Estab 1971 becomes Raindance Foundation, lished with Rockefeller Foundation Director, Roger Larson. devoted to research and development of grant. In 1969 renamed National Cen San Francisco. Ant Farm. Artists' me~ia/architecturegroup. Founded by video as a creative and communications ter for Experiments in Television medium, with screening program. Mem (NCET), funded by the Corporation for Chip Lord and Doug Michels; joined by Curtis Schreier in 1971. Other members bers: Frank Gillette, Michael Sham Public Broadcasting and the National berg, Steve Salonis, Marco Vassi, Louis Endowment for the Arts. Ends 1976. include Kelly Gloger, Joe Hall, Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Jaffe; soon after, Ira Schneider and Paul 1968 Wright. Disbands 1978. Ryan, and then Beryl Korot. Exhibitions/Events Land Truth Circus. Experimental video Videofreex. Experimental video group. Members: Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, Downloaded by [George Washington University] at 20:00 03 February 2015 New York. Black: Video by Aldo Tam collective. Founded by Doug Hall, Diane Hall, Jody Proctor. In 1972 re David Cort, Bart Friedman, Davidson bellini in "Some More Beginnings," Gigliotti, Chuck Kennedy, Curtis Rat Brooklyn Museum. Organized by Ex named Truthco; in 1975, T. R. Uthco. Ends 1978. cliff, Parry Teasdale, Carol Vontobel, periments in Art and Technology. Tunie Wall, Ann Woodward. Electronic Art II by Nam June Paik, Santa Clara, Calif. The Electric Eye. Galeria Bonino. Video collective. Founded by Tim Bar Television/Productions Intermedia '68. Theater Workshop for ger, Jim Mandis, Jim Murphy, Michelle Boston. The Medium Is the Medium, Students and the Brooklyn Academy of Newman, Skip Sweeney. Ends 1970. WGBH-TV. Produced by Fred Barzyk, Music. Organized by John Brockman. Television/Productions Anne Gresser, Pat Marx. First presenta Funded through the New York State tion of works by independent video art Council on the Arts. Exhibition includes New York. The Underground Sundae by ists aired on television. Thirty-minute environmental video performances, light Andy Warhol. Warhol commissioned to program with works by Allan Kaprow, and film projections, videotapes. Video make sixty-second commercial for Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James by Ken Dewey with Jerry Walter, Schraff's Restaurant. Seawright, Thomas Tadlock, AIda Les Levine with George Fan, Aldo San Francisco. Sorcery by Loren Sears Tambellini. Tambellini. and Robert Zagone. Experimental Tele New York. Subject to Change, SQN Iris by Les Levine. First shown publicly vision Workshop, KQED-TV. Live Productions for CBS. Produced by Don in artist's studio. Sculpture with six broadcast program using special-effects West. Program of videotapes initiated monitors and three video cameras, com imagery. by Don West with CBS and produced by missioned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kar Videofreex and other members of the don. Collection, Philadelphia Museum video community. Videotapes produced 250 Art Journal on all aspects of the counterculture (al ternate schools, communes, radicals, Blank Panthers, riots, demonstrations, etc.). Never broadcast. 1970 Exhibitions/Events ,New York. A.I.R. by Les Levine in ~ ' So ftwa r e , " the Jewish Museum. Cura tor, Jack Burnham. Eighteen-monitor video installation. information. The Museum of Modern Art. Curator, Kynaston McShine. Exhibition includes videotapes and installations from U.S., Europe, Latin America. Warehouse Show, Leo Castelli Gallery. Includes video installation by Keith Sonnier. Plainfield. Vt. The First Gathering: Alternate Media Project, Goddard Col lege. Media conference. Aldo Tarnbellini, Black Gate Th eater. 1967, mult imedia perform ance. San Francisco. Body Works, Museum of Conceptual Art. Videotapes by Vito 1\cconci, Terry Fox, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Keith Sonnier, WiI Iiam Wegman. Organized by Wil loughby Sharp. First video exhibition on the West Coast. i10 T. Farnsworth Video Obelisk by kip Sweeney, Intersection Theater, ~ultichannel video installation. altham. Mass. Vision and Television, kose Art Museum, Brandeis University. brganized by Russell Connor. Works by frank Gillette, Ted Kraynik, Les levine, Eugene Mattingly, Nam June 'faik (with Charlotte Moorman), John eill Y and Rudi Stern, Paul Ryan, Ira chneider, Eric Siegel, Aldo Tambel ~ini, Jud Yalkut, USCO/Intermedia, ideofreex, Joe Weintraub. rganiZatiOnS inghamton, N.Y. Experimental Televi ~ion Center. Originally Community Downloaded by [George Washington University] at 20:00 03 February 2015 Center for Television Production. Pro duction/post-production center empha sizing