{"id":4701,"title":"Everson Video 75","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/programs-exhibition-chronology-1975-1978-1998","version":"5bcdd7ad944834ddff067fca59ed491f1e5c6cb14dc87fba8fdf4bd31066d763","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1947973+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Curator","name":"Richard Simmons"},{"role":"Editor","name":"Judson Rosebush"}],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["Groups"],"metadata":[{"label":"Publisher","value":"Everson Museum of Art","url":null},{"label":"Place","value":"Syracuse, New York","url":null},{"label":"Organizer","value":"Everson Museum of Art","url":null},{"label":"Site","value":"Everson Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; University Art Gallery, Berkeley; Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC0755","url":null},{"label":"Group dates","value":"1972 - present","url":null},{"label":"Group location","value":"Syracuse, New York","url":null},{"label":"Group","value":"Everson Museum of Art","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Programs, Exhibition Chronology (1975, 1978, 1998).\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/programs-exhibition-chronology-1975-1978-1998.","publication":"Everson Video 75. Everson Museum of Art. .","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4701.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC0755","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"},{"label":"Description of Programs","url":"#Description of","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"Artists Represented in the Everson Collection","url":"#Artists Represented in the Everson","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"Preface to Video 75","url":"#Preface to Video","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"Services and Resources","url":"#Services and","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"Selected Exhibition Chronology","url":"#Selected Exhibition","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"Everson Museum","url":"https://www.everson.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://media.macm.qc.ca/2hill-eve.htm","url":"http://media.macm.qc.ca/2hill-eve.htm","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":21501},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":783},{"name":"archive_summary","source":"existing ETC archive summaries: ETC0755","generated":false,"characters":242}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Title: Programs, Exhibition Chronology (1975, 1978, 1998) In 1972 with funding from New York State Council on the Arts, the Everson Museum of Art established the first video department in a major museum. Museum Director was James Harithas. David Ross was the first video curator. Ross left to become deputy director for film and television at Long Beach Museum of Art in 1974. Richard Simmons had served as curatorial assistant and then Associate Curator, and became Curator in 1975. The Department closed in 1981. Description of Programs Pamela Susan Hawkins 1998 Artists Represented in the Everson Collection Preface to Video 75 excerpt from Ronald Kuchta Services and Resources 1978 Selected Exhibition Chronology 1998 To visit the Everson Museum website Description of Programs Pamela Susan Hawkins The establishment here, of what I believe is the first video department and continuous video program at any public museum in the United States, in March 1972 came as a result of my early conversations with Nam June Paik, with Frank Gillette and later with the museum\u0027s curator of video arts, David Ross. Ross began planning the department roughly 6 months before it was actually established. Its basic idea was that of providing artists with access to the form. He went on to develop an exhibition format for video art, a small archive, a community oriented education program, and an initial plan for promoting the museum\u0027s participation in the cable TV system, to be established in Syracuse during the next few years. A substantial donation from the Rosamond Gifford Foundation provided the basic hardware for the Department\u0022. (1) - James Harithas, catalog for Work from the Experimental Television Center, September 1972. Ross began by inviting artists such as painter Frank Gillette, musician Bill Viola and conceptual artist/photographer William Wegman. After a viewing of works typical to their more customary media, he would ask whether they were working in video. He often was responsible for maintaining the technical aspects of the exhibit in the museum, making sure tapes were rewound and playback begun. Exhibitions he curated would often include 40 or 50 artists. Syracuse University\u0027s Synapse program helped to support the growth the Everson\u0027s video programs, providing professional-quality post-production equipment and space for artists. \u0022Artists now well-known in the sometimes hermetically sealed world of contemporary art -- Nam June Paik, Peter Campus, [Bill] Viola, Juan Downey, [William] Wegman, Mary Lucier and others -- were either students at Syracuse University or [there] on grants from Synapse. The tapes that they made went into the Everson\u0027s collection.\u0022 (2) In 1974, both David Ross and James Harithas left for the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, respectively. Richard Simmons was responsible for a number of important shows. Ronald Kuchta, Director, writing in 1976 in the Video 75 catalog, that Richard Simmons organized over 17 shows over the past two years. Simmons also instituted a new permanent video area which screened tapes from the permanent archive on a continuous basis. The Everson video collection was inactive for a number of years. When Sandra Trop became Director in 1995 an effort was begun to restore some of the more than 200 tapes in the Museum\u0027s collection. Some of restored videotapes were shown at the anniversary celebration in 1998, and also at the Video History: Making Connections conference. Syracuse University was a partner in the cataloging efforts, with the assistance of John Orentlicher and Bob Doyle. (2) Sources 1. James Harithas, Director, Everson Museum of Art, \u0022Work from the Experimental Television Center, Binghamton, N.Y., Sept. 19 to Oct. 2, 1972,\u0022 front page 2. David Reilly, \u0022Videos,\u0022 Stars, July 14, 1996, pg.13, 14 and 34 3. Everson Museums Video Tape Collection Listing, undated 4. \u0022WGBH New Television Workshop Showcase\u0022 announcement, Everson Museum, 1977 5. \u0022Everson Museum of Art Bulletin, September-October 1977\u0022 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1977 6. \u0022Everson Museum of Art Bulletin, June-July-August 1978,\u0022 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1978 7. \u0022Information, Works and Activites,\u0022 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, November 1976. 8. Video and the Art Museum A three-day workshop/seminar at The Everson Museum of Art,\u0022 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1974. (xerox) Gary Hill listing: http://media.macm.qc.ca/2hill-eve.htm Artists Represented in the Everson Collection Vito Acconci, David Atwood, Henry Baker, John Baldessari, Ros Barron, Fred Barzyk, Gregory Battcock, Bill Beirne, Stephen Beck, Lynda Benglis, Dan Berrigan, Cynthia Ann Bickley, Phil Block, Norman Bluhm, Skip Blumberg, Joseph Bodolai, George Bolling, Dan Boord, Jack Bowen, Robert Bowers, Joseph Brenmann, Drew Browning, Lenny Bruce, Barbara Buckner, Chris Burden, Don Burgy, Bob Burns, P. Buscemi, Michael Butler, Gerald Byerly, Nancy Cain, Colin Campbell, Peter Campus, Tobe J. Carey, Frank Cavestani, Laura Cavestani, Carl Chew, Circuit Catalog, Josephine Clare, Elizabeth Clare, Robert Edgar, Dave Duff, David Cort, Stephan Cruise, Jaime Davidovitch, Gigliotti Davidson, Doug Davis, Decker, Tom DeFanti, Gary Demos, Dimitri Devyatkin, Ken Dominick, Juan Dos Santos, Juan Downey, Jean Dupuy, Eckankar, James Edwards, Edward Emshwiller, Bill Etra, Louise Etra, Kit Fitzgerald, Richard Foreman, Rod Fountain, Terry Fox, Hermine Freed, Howard Fried, Bart Friedman, Dieter Froese, Carl Geiger, Henry Gernhardt, Frank Gillette, Jean Guimmi, Joel Glassman, Michael Goldberg, Ron Gorchove, Carol Goss, Cynthia Grey, Clement Greenberg, Ernest Gusella, James Harithas, Michael Hayden, Noel Harding, David Hays, Ron Hays, Mortimer Heller, Gary Hill, Kay Hines, Ralph Hocking, Jeff Hudson, Geoffry Igbal, Taka Iimura, Ithaca Video Co-op, Charles James, J.D. Jarvis, Paul Jeffers, Paul Jenewein, Johnny Video, Joan Jonas, Gunilla Mallory Jones, Mitsura Kataoke, David H. Katzivz, John Keeler, Fred Kessler, Paula Kim, Richard Kline; Tom Klinkowstein, Ken Knowlton, Steven Koplan, Beryl Korot, Marlene Kos, Paul Kos, Mitchell Kreigman, Shigeko Kubota, B. Kunstler, Beth Latham, Les Levine, Donald Lipski, Barb Lloyd, Jane Logemann, Mary Lucier, Machlin, Magic Video Softmachine, Eva Maier, Christa Maiwald, Phillip Mallory, Andy Mann, John Manning, John Margolis, T. Marshall, Bruce McCurdy, Laurie McDonald, John McEwen, Patricia Moella, Linda Montano, Jose Montes-Barquer, R. Moreira, James W. Morris, Antonio Muntadas, Rita Myers, Ronald Nameth, Jack Nelson, N.E. Thing Co., Terry Noel, Florence Nyland, Nimmer with Amenoff, Dennis Oppenheim, John Orentlicher, Raphael M. Ortiz, Paul Ott, Tony Ousler, Nam June Paik, Leonard Patterson, I.M. Pei, Tom Phillips, Patti Podesta, Norma Pontes, Michael Portis, Anthony Ramos, Ed Rankus, Bill Ritchie, Judson Rosebush, D. Ross, Michael Rothbard, Ruth Rothko, Susan Russell, John Sanborn, Dan Sandin, Joseph Scala, Patsy Scala, Peter Scheer, Van Schley, Ira Schneider, Lillian Schwartz, Penny Schwartz, Seidenberg, Eric Seigle, Richard Serra, Owen Shapiro, Willoughby Sharp, Tom Sherman, Michael Snow, Tom Snyder, N.R. Sobel, Keith Sonnier, Lisa Steel, Lisa Steele, John Sturgeon, Skip Sweeney, Elizabeth Sweetham, Barbara Sykes, Aldo Tambellini, The Review, F. Torres, Bob Tuvis, Stan Van Der Beck, Peter Van Riper, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Videoball, Videofreex, Video Repetoire, Bill Viola, Ruth Volmer, Willie Walker, William Wegman, Wisniewski, Jane Wright, Walter Wright, and Jud Yalkut. Also included in the collection are the Experimental Television Center\u0027s Binghampton Audio Visual #1, #3, #4, #5 and #6, Iowa City Series #1-6, the Everson\u0027s St. Jude Invitational tapes: the 12th Annual Exhibition, tapes #1-3 and #5-9. Everson Museums Video Tape Collection Listing, undated Preface to Video 75 excerpt from Ronald Kuchta. \u0022Everson\u0027s concern with Video has always been with its aesthetic and participatory advantages and possibilities. As a frankly experimental arm of the Museum\u0027s exhibition program it has provided a diversity of approach and personality. In this respect it has required some adjustment on the part of the regular audiences\u0027 point of view. It has required that an audience be aware of the unconventional possibilities of a familiar medium and to watch closely for its clearly aesthetic properties. As a relatively recent and \u0027cool\u0027 medium encumbered a bit by its hardware and our usual associations of it with commercial purposes, it demands more than a little patience at times...Admittedly Video\u0027s place in the Art Museum is still problematical. One problem is the conservation of Video tapes which have a fast rate of disintegration. One also has to consider the practical cost of the hardware and the high maintenance factor and the restrictions often placed on the use of tapes purchased from artists and galleries. An even more fundamental question to its relevancy in the Museum is Video\u0027s lack of history and its obsession with the present tense - its lack of perspective, context, or heritage. It certainly challenges us and places us in the present but gives us little sense from whence we came. Few reputations of Video artists precede this decade. Its virtue has to be in its insistence on making us deal with what is new, experiential, here and now. Video suggests consideration of an electronic visual experience on a temporal basis. It constantly raises questions as to the efficacy and purpose and most importantly, the extension of art into the world at large. Everson\u0027s concentration on Video as art rather than as an educational device is still rather unique... The viewing and participation in Video presentations has undoubtedly enriched the experience of a growing number of visitors to this Museum who have openly encountered its aura. EversonVideo 75, 1976. Ronald Kuchta, Director Services and Resources 1978 Access of \u00BD\u0022 and \u00BE\u0022 equipment to individuals and organizations if not required by Museum Workshops - informal instruction with equipment loan Exhibition - tape screenings 10am - 5 pm Internships - independent study arrangement with Syracuse University Collections - 400 video art tapes, with finding aids Distribution - no formal distribution; group exhibitions loaned and traveled to other institutions From Access A Film and Video Equipment Directory, Nancy Legge, 1978 Selected Exhibition Chronology 1972 Shigeko Kubota Frank Gillette Douglas Davis: An Exhibition Inside and Outside the Museum Work from Experimental Television Center, Binghamton, N.Y., Sept. 19 to Oct. 2, 1972 Included \u0022TV Bed Performance\u0022 by Charlotte Moorman, a collaborative work by Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller, Nam June Paik and Charlotte; \u0022Video Construction\u0022 by Ken Dominick; \u0022Three Channel Video Performance\u0022 by Shigeko Kubota, displaying Marcel Duchamp and John Cage playing chess, sound track by John Cage; \u0022Minimal Piano Performance\u0022 by Nam June Paik; and \u0022Jazz Concert/Video Synthesis Chroma Key Interface\u0022 by Open Channels, performed by Boston musicians Don Tipton, Bill Sharon and Mark Nash in conjunction with the Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer and Chroma Key Switcher. The tape schedule from the show included works by Jeff Alexander, Wayne Olson, Explorer\u0027s Post, Bruce Johnson, Percy Borde, Mrs. Frietag, Wayne Fisher, Brian McGee, Bill Jones, Steven Britton, Mr. Petersom, Mark Levinson, Mark Spencer, Peter Boris and Gary Iacovelli, Jim Stento, Gus Ward, Steven Zunic and Marshall Brown, Ralph Hocking, Jackson MacLow and Kenneth Dominick, Jamie Dearing and Carlota Corday, Civic Theater, Angel Nuniz, Mike Gulachok, Morgan Crawford, and Collective Studio Productions pieces from the Woody Vasulka Workshop, Tom Rietman Group, and Beggar\u0027s Opera. 1973 Circuit: A Video Invitational (traveled in 1974) Curated by David Ross; traveling exhibition of videotapes by over sixty-five artists,. Travels to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; K\u00F6lni","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":21501,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}