Electronic Arts Intermix

Selection of videos from the early days of video art in the collection of Electronic Arts Intermix (New York, U.S.)

This selection brings together videos made between 1969 and 1979 by a group of mainly American artists experimenting with video imagery. The recent acquisition of DVD copies of those videotapes is intended primarily to complement the documentation resources of the Steina and Woody Vasulka Fonds. The work of the Vasulkas, a European couple living in the United States who collaborated closely with these artists, flourished in the early seventies when video was becoming an independent medium (for more details see the finding aids for the fonds). This sample helps contexualize the many documents in the fonds that relate to the theoretical and technical issues of video in its early days.

The selection includes a sample of videos produced by artists who, over the decades, have become leading figures in video art internationally (Nam June Paik, Gary Hill, Bill Viola), as well as lesser known work from such pioneers as Stan VanDerBeek, Ed Emshwiller, Eric Siegel, Dan Sandin and Barbara Buckner. Several of these works extensively explore the formal language specific to the medium (feedback, framing experiments, keying, generation of real-time effects). The selection also features a few documentaries and general anthologies on video art. Though the selection reveals the trend in experimental abstract video in particular, it also includes a few works reminiscent of direct cinema shot with the Portapak system (the first portable camera) in the early seventies. All videos are available for individual viewing at the CR+D.

List of videos

- Beck, Stephen. - Conception. - 1972. - DVD, colour, sound, 5 min 20 s.

- Beck, Stephen. - Methods. - 1971. - DVD, colour, sound, 10 min 44 s.

- Beck, Stephen. - Cycles. - 1974. - DVD, colour, sound, 10 min 12 s.

- Beck, Stephen. - Illuminated Music II. - 1972-1973. - DVD, colour, sound, 14 min 2 s.

- Beck, Stephen. - Illuminated Music III. - 1972-1973. - DVD, colour, sound, 13 min 48 s.

- Buckner, Barbara. - Hearts. - 1979. - DVD, colour, sound, 11 min 56 s.

- Buckner, Barbara. - Heads. - 1979. - DVD, colour, silent, 5 min 41 s.

- Buckner, Barbara. - Millennia. - 1981. - DVD, Colour, silent, 5 min 33 s.

- Davis, Douglas. - Video against video. - 1975. - DVD, colour, sound mono, 28 min 50 s.

- Davis, Douglas. - Post video. - 1981. - DVD, colour, sound stéréo, 29 min 6 s.

- Emshwiller, Ed. - Scape-mates. - 1972. - DVD, colour, sound, 28 min 16 s.

- Hill, Gary. - Electronic linguistics. - 1977. - DVD, black and white, sound, 3 min 39 s.

- Hill, Gary. - Sums & differences. - New York : Electronic Arts Intermix, 1978. - DVD, black and white, sound, 8 min 24 s.

- Hill, Gary. - Equal time. - 1979. - DVD, colour, sound, 4 min 39 s.

- Hill, Gary. - Picture story. - 1979. - DVD, colour, sound, 6 min 26 s.

- Interview with Buckminster Fuller. - London : Raindance, 1970. - DVD, colour, sound, 33 min 49 s.

- Lucier, Mary. - Two screen matrix : air writing (1974) / fire writing (1975). - 1979. - DVD, black and white, sound, 18 min 30 s.

- The medium is the medium. - Boston : WGBH Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, 1969. - DVD, colour, sound, 27 min 50 s.

- Paik, Nam June. - Global groove. - 1973. - DVD, colour, sound mono, 28 min 30 s.

- Paik, Nam June. - Digital experiments at Bell Labs. - 1966. - DVD, black and white, silent, 5 min.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Video-film concert. - 1966-1972, 1992. - DVD, colour, sound, 34 min 50 s.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Video Tape Study No. 3. - 1966-1969. - DVD, black and white, sound, 4 min.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Electronic moon no. 2. - 1969. - DVD, colour, sound, 4 min 30 s.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Beatles electroniques. - 1966-1969. - DVD, colour, sound, 3 min.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Electronic fables. - 1966-1972. - DVD, colour, sound, 8 min 45 s.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Waiting for commercials. - 1972. - DVD, colour, sound, 6 min 45 s.

- Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud. - Electronic yoga. - 1972-1992. - DVD, colour, sound, 7 min 30 s.

- Raindance: media primers. - London : Raindance, 1970. - DVD, black and white, 55 min 41 s.

- Sandin, Daniel J. - Wanda wega waters. - 1980. - DVD, colour, sound, 14 min.

- Sandin, Daniel J. - Sister's bay christmas morning. - 1977. - DVD, Colour, sound, 5 min 49 s.

- Siegel, Eric. - Tomorrow never knows. - 1968. - DVD, Colour, sound, 3 min 10 s.

- Siegel, Eric. - Symphony of the planets. - 1968. - DVD, colour, sound, 10 min 20 s.

- Schneider, Ira. - TV as a creative medium. - 1969. - DVD, black and white, sound mono, 12 min 8 s.

- VanDerBeek, Stan. - Newsreel of Dreams: Part I. - 1976. - DVD, colour, sound, 28 min.

- VanDerBeek, Stan. - Strobe ode. - 1977. - DVD, colour, sound, 11 min.

- VanDerBeek, Stan. - Vanishing point left. - 1977. - DVD, colour, sound, 9 min 30 s.

- Video: the new wave. - Boston : WGBH Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, 1973. - DVD, colour, sound mono, 58 min 27 s.

- Viola, Bill. - The reflecting pool. - 1977-1979. - DVD, colour, sound, 7 min.

- Viola, Bill. - Vegetable memory. - 1978-1980. - DVD, colour, sound, 15 min 13 s.

- Viola, Bill. - Ancient of days. - 1979-1981. - DVD, colour, sound, 12 min 21 s.

- Viola, Bill. - Silent life. - 1979. - DVD, colour, sound, 13 min 14 s.

- Viola, Bill. - Moonblood. - 1977-1979. - DVD, colour, sound, 12 min 48 s.

- Yalkut, Jud. - The electronic superhighway : Nam June Paik in the nineties. - 1995. - DVD, colour, sound, 40 min.