Whitney Museum of American Art - Video Program: Chronology: Video at the Whitney Museum 1971-1983, Marita Sturken (1983)

Video at the Whitney Museum 1971-1983
          Marita Sturken, Afterimage May 1983

1971
A Special Videotape Show (curated by David Bienstock): Video Commune (1969-70), by Nam June Paik; Key Show and Elements (1971), by Woody and Steina Vasulka; Let It Be, by Steina Vasulka; Sequences/Night Video, by Douglas Davis; See Mudra Gulp, by Richard Lowenberg; Cosmic Portal, by Stephen C. Beck; "Please Superimpose, Please?" by John Randolph Carter; Skip Sweeney Feedback, by Skip Sweeney; Black Video No. 3, by Aldo Tambellini; West Pole I, by Robert N. Zagone; Eric Seigel Plays the Seigel Video Synthesizer, by Eric Seigel; Video Tunnel (1971), by Dmitri Devyatkin; Long Sounds (1968), by Richard Felciano; Aleph Null (1971), by Shridhar Bapat and Charles Phillips; Feed Fields Back (1971), by Richard Lowenberg; Point of Inflection (1970), by Stephen C. Beck and Richard Felciano; Descartes (1968), by Joanne Kyger, Robert Zagone; Images, by Ed Emshwiller; Music With Balls, by Terry Riley; Seed Dream Video, by Isaac Abrams and Carol Herzer; Paik-Moorman-Artists Television Workshop, by Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman; The Relay, by Alwin Nikolais; Boston Symphony Orchestra Experimental Television Project, WGBH-TV.

1972
Videofilms: Off-On (1967), by Scott Bartlett; Electronic Fables (1971), by Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik; The Casting (1971), by James Pasternak: The Fall, by Tom DeWitt; Film Form #2 (1967), by Stan VanderBeek; Life with Video, by Willie Walker; Television Land, by Charles Braverman.

1973
Biennial Exhibition: Baldessari Sings Lewitt, by John Baldessari; Kiva, by Peter Campus (video installation); Tape Project, by Jaime Davidovitch; Sapphos, by Joan Jonas; Sax, by Richard Landry; Untitled, by Robert Morris; Mat Key Radio Track, by Keith Sonnier; Selected Works 1972, by William Wegman.

1975
Biennial Exhibition (curated by John Hanhardt): Commercial Television Collage (1974), by Billy Adler and John Margolies; Sand (1972) and Ice Box Classic (1974), by John Arvanites; Generations (1971) by George Boiling; Both (1974), Translucent (1974), and Handheld II (1974), by James Byrne; Moving (1974), by Juan Downey; Children's Tapes: A Selection (1974), by Terry Fox; 360° No. 1 (1973), by Hermine Freed; Hark-Hork (1972-73), by Frank Gillette; Rattling Out side, Banging Inside (1972), by Joel Glassman; Lost Lascaux Bull (1973-74), Invision (1973-74), and Transit (1973-74) by Beryl Korot; Pilot Butte/Pilot Light (1974), by Paul Kos; Danger Flying Rock Zone (1973) and Hie Noon (1973) by Andy Mann; Balloon Nose Blow-Up (1972), by Anthony Ramos; A Lecture On Houdini (For Terry Allen) (1972), by Allen Ruppersberg; The Professional Retirement Home (1974), by Ilene Segalove; Nor Mal/Con Verse (1974), Hands Up (1974), and Shirt (1974), by John Sturgeon; Information (1973), by Bill Viola.

Projected Video: Abstractions on a Bed Sheet (1973), by William Etra; Vocabulary (1973-74), C-Trend (1974) and Noisefields (1974); by Woody and Steina Vasulka; Global Groove (1973) and Suite 212: The Selling of New York (1973), by Nam June Paik; SemiBuffet (1975), by William Wegman; R-G-B (1973) and Set of Coincidence (1974), by Peter Campus; Studies in Myself II (1973), by Douglas Davis; Television Delivers People (1973), by Richard Serra; Female Sensibility (1974), by Lynda Benglis; Richard Nixon: 1968-1974 (1974), by Billy Adler and John Margolies; Animation II (1974), by Keith Sonnier; Baldessari Sings Lewitt (1972), by John Baldessari; Art Herstory (1974), by Hermine Freed; Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (1974), by Shigeko Kubota.

1976
Baldessari/Wegman: Selected Works, Reel 4 (1972) and Selected Works, Reel 6 (1975-76), by William Wegman; The Italian Tape (1974), and Ed Henderson Suggests Sounds for Photographs (1975), by John Baldessari.

Telethon: The Telethon Tapes: TV Beauty Pageants (1972-73) and 1972 National Political Conventions (1972), by Telethon (Billy Adler and John Margolies).

Davidovich/Hastanger/Myers: Outlines (1974), by Martha Haslanger; Investigation/Observation: We Are Not Alone Here (1975), by Rita Myers; 3 Mercer Street (1975), by Jaime Davidovich.

The World of Willie Walker: The Week-End Tapes (1972), by Willie Boy Walker.

Fox/Patoski: Six Lights (1976), by Christina Patoski; Clutch (1971), by Terry Fox.

Juan Downey: Video Trans Americas (1976), (video and film installation).

Andy Mann: Video Matrix (1976), (installation).

Sondheim/Acker: Untitled (1974), by Kathy Acker and Alan Sondheim; Red Art Brigade (1976) and Theses After Marx (1976), by Alan Sondheim.

Connell/Sakula/Torres: La Lucha Final (1975-76), by Brian Connell; Talk Given by Mr. Fred Lux at the Lux Manufacturing Co. Plant in Lebanon, Tennessee, on Wednesday, September 15, 1953 (1974), by Allan Sekula; and Image's Identity (1974), by Francesc Torres.

Wendy Clarke: (video installation).

1977
Douglas Davis: Four Places Two Figures One Ghost (1977), (Manhattan cable telecast/performance; installation).

Biennial Exhibition: Undertone (1972), by Vito Acconci; Inventory (1972), by John Baldessari; Female Sensibility (1974), by Lynda Benglis; Three Transitions (1973) and Set of Coincidence (1974), by Peter Campus; La Lucha Final (1975-76), by Brian Connell; Children's Tapes: A Selection (1974), by Terry Fox; Intraction (1973) and Ghost of the Creamer (1974), by Howard Fried; Underscan (1974), by Nancy Holt; Vertical Roll (1972), by Joan Jonas; Time Pieces (1975), by Allan Kaprow; One-Eyed Bum (1974), by Andy Mann; Pacing Upside Down (1968), by Bruce Nauman; Global Groove (1973), by Nam June Paik; Skin Cancer (1975) and The Dive (1975), by Ilene Segalove; Television Delivers People (1973), by Richard Serra; Evidence (1975), by Alan Sondheim; Animation II (1974), by Keith Sonnier; Noisefields (1974) and Vocabulary (1973-74), by Woody and Steina Vasulka; Life with Video (1971-76), by Willie Boy Walker; Selected Works, Reel 4 (1972), by William Wegman.

Robert Ashley: Music with Roots in the Aether (1977).

Frank Gillette: Maui (1976-77), (video installation).

Ira Schneider: Manhattan Is an Island (1974), (video installation).

Top Value Television: Super Vision (1976-77).

Image Union: The Five-Day Bicycle Race (1976) and Mock Turtle Soup (1976), (video installation).

Nancy Holt: Revolve (1977).

Clark/Lamelas: The Hand (1977), by David Lamelas; Dialectical Facts (1977), by Ron Clark.

Bart Robbett: Double Narrative; Word Burn and other pieces (1977), (film, video and light installation).

Ant Farm/Ramos/Soltes: The Nixon Tapes (1976), by Elon Soltes; About Media (1977), by Anthony Ramos; Media Burn (1975), by Ant Farm.

Fred Lonidier: The Health and Safety Game: Fictions Based on Fact (1976), (video and photography installation).

Martha Rosier: Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977); Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975); The East is Red, The West Is Bending (1977); From the PTA, the High School, and the City of Del Mar (1977); Losing: A Conversation with the Parents (1977).

1978
Richard Foreman: City Archives (1977); Out of the Body Travel (1976).

Vito Acconci: The Red Tapes (1976).

Christa Maiwald: Selections from Rabbit Ears, Parts 1, 2, 3 (1977); Underground Accelerator (1977).

New Documentary Video: Golden Gloves-Who's the Champ (1977), by Tom Weinberg and Scott Jacobs; Running with the Bulls (1977), by Bill and Esti Marpet.

Francesc Torres: Residual Regions (1976-78), (video and film installation).

Peter Campus: Video Projection Pieces (installation and photographs).

Eleanor Antin: Caught in the Act (1973); The Little Match Girl Ballet (1975); The Littlest Ballerina (1976).

Martine Barrat: You Do the Crime You Do the Time (1971-77).

Short Video Narratives: The Female Prisoner (1978), by Jane Brettschneider; Anchor Story (1977), Marshall Klugman (The Twin Kit) (1977), The Restless Sleepwalker (A Palindrome) (1977), Always Late (1978), by Mitchell Kriegman; The Dictator (1978), by David Lamelas; The Troubled Zone (1978) by Willie Boy Walker, Dana Atchley and Dr. Gladstone.

Juan Downey: The Abandoned Shabono (1978); The Singing Mute (1978).

Two-Channel Video: Induction/Convention (1975-76), by Dieter Froese; Fragments: Mat/Glass (1975-76), by Amy Greenfield; Bonaparte Television (1976), by Michael Harvey; "Really, I've Never Done Anything Like This Before," He Said (1977), by T. R. Uthco (Diane Hail, Doug Hall, and Jody Procter).

Skip Blumberg: The First International Whistling Show (1978), with Jules Backus; For a Moment You Fly: The Big Apple Circus (1978); Jglng (1976).

Ida Applebroog: It's No Use Alberto (1978); Lunch Hour Tapes (1977), (video installation with wall-mounted pieces).

1979
Biennial Exhibition: Revolve (1977), by Nancy Holt; Entropy (1978) and Order (1978), by Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; The Morning After the Night of Power (1977) and Sweet Light (1977), by Bill Viola; Grace, Body, Night, Lamb, Landscape, A Man Hours, Image of the Kingdom Mesa, Mast, Axis, Waters, The Blue, Gathering In, Dominion (1978), by Barbara Buckner; Nor Was This All By Any Means (1978), by Anthony Ramos; Video/Tape (1977), by Alan Sondheim; I Want To Live in the Country (and Other Romances) (1977), by Joan Jonas; City Archives (1977), by Richard Foreman; The Physiognomy of Marcel Proust (1978) and The Female Prisoner (1978), by Jane Brettschneider; Building a Nuclear Head {1978), by Christa Maiwald; The Points of a Star, Chapter One: Separations (1978), by Rita Myers; Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977), by Martha Rosler.

Re/Visions: Projects and Proposals in Film and Video: Rumor and Innuendo (1979), by Bill Beirne (video installation); Videoconstruction (1979), by Buky Schwartz (video installation); Cloud Music (1979), by Robert Watts, David Behrman, and Bob Diamond (video installation); Viewing a Film in/of A Gallery of the Period and Audition (1979), by William Anastasi (film installation); North Light (1979), by Morgan Fisher (film installation); Two Sides to Every Story (1979), by Michael Snow (film installation).

Shigeko Kubota/Taka limura: New Video: Three Mountains (1979), by Shigeko Kubota (video installation); I=You=He/She (1979), by Taka limura (video installation and performance).

Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn: Resound (1979), (video installation).

Boord/Fried/Froese: The Birth of Tragedy (1978), by Dan Boord; Vito's Reef (1978), by Howard Fried; Remember/Forget the IVth Symphony (1978), by Dieter Froese.

Ken Feingold: Sexual Jokes (1978-79), (video installation).

1980
Peter Campus: Dynamic Field Series (1971); Double Vision (1971); Three Transitions (1973); Set of Coincidence (1974); R-G-B (1974); Four Sided Tape (1976); East Ended Tape (1976); Third Tape (1976); Six Fragments (1976).

Nam June Paik- Global Groove (1973); A Tribute to John Cage (1973); Suite 212.' The Selling of New York (1976); Quadacanal Requiem (1977); Merce and Marcel (1977), by Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota.

Mitchell Kriegman: The Telephone Stories (1979), (audio installation).

Barbara Buckner: Selected Works (1977); Pictures of the Lost (1978); Hearts (1979).

Chris Burden: B-Car (1976); C.B.T V (1977), (Chris Burden Television, video and sculpture installation).

Rita Myers: The Points of a Star, Chapter 1: Separations (1978) and Chapter 2: Desires (1979).

Bruce Nauman: Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. (1968); Wall/FIoor Positions (1968); Revolving Upside Down (1968); Lip Sync (1969); Tony Sinking Into the Floor, Face Up and Face Down (1974).

Al Robbins: Anticata/Strophe (1980), (video installation).

Lord/Garner: Chevrolet Training Film: The Remake (1978-80), (performance and videotape installation).

Beryl Korot: Dachau 1974 (1975); Text and Commentary (1977), (both video installations).

1981
William Anastasi: William Anastasi: Coincidents (1981), (video and photography installations).

Biennial Exhibition: Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat (1979), by Bill Viola; After Montgoffier (1979), by Davidson Gigliotti; El Corandero (1979) and Delta Visions (1980), by Shalom Gorewitz; Condom (1979-80), by Howard Fried; Double Identities (1979), by Taka limura; Lines of Force (1979), by Bob Snyder; Quarks (1980), by Peter D'Agostino; Olympic Fragments (1980), by John Sanborn and Kit Fitzgerald; Lake Placid 80 (1980), by Nam June Paik; Transnotations (1980), by Sally Shapiro; Hearts (1979), by Barbara Buckner; Zukovsky's Bow (1979), by William Anastasi; In Real Time (1980), by Buky Schwartz (video installation); Aransas: Axis of Observation (1979), by Frank Gillette (video installation).

Ira Schneider: Time Zones (1980), with Tom Zafian (video installation).

Douglas Davis: Double Entendre. Two Sites Two Times Two Sides (For Roland Barthes) (1981), (satellite video performance; installation).

Francesc Tores: The Head of the Dragon (1981), (film and video installation).

Mary Lucier: Denman's Col (Geometry) (1979-81), (video installation).

Bill Stephens: Fire Walls Four (1981), (video installation).

1982
Michael Smith: It Starts At Home (1980-82), (video installation).

Bill Viola: Migration (1976); The Space Between the Teeth (1976); Truth Through Mass Individuation (1976); The Morning After the Night of Power (1977); Sweet Light (1977); Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979); The Reflecting Pool (1977-80); The Reflecting Pool (1977-79); Moonblood (1977-79); Silent Life (1979); Ancient of Days (1979-80); Vegetable Memory (1978-80); Hatsu Yume (1981).

Nam June Paik Retrospective

Ideology/Praxis: Call It Sleep (1982), by Isaac Cronin and Terrel Seltzer; Casual Shopper (1981) by Judith Barry.

Ed Emshwiller: Passes (1982), (video installation).

1983
Joan Jonas: He Saw Her Burning (1982), (video installation and performance).

Biennial Exhibition: The Looking Glass (1981), by Juan Downey; Surveillance (1981), by Bruce Charlesworth; New Building Under the Water (1982), by Ken Feingold; Meta Mayan II (1981), by Edin Velez; U.S. Sweat (1982), by Shalom Gorewitz; After Laughter (1981), by Stan VanderBeek; Hatsu Yuma (First Dream) (1981), by Bill Viola; Windfalls (1982), by Matthew Geller; The Speech (1982), by Doug Hall; Making a Paid Political Announcement (1982), by Howard Fried; Millennia (1981), by Barbara Buckner; Videograms (1960-81), by Gary Hill; Trim Subdivisions (1981), by Bob Snyder; Allan 'N Allen's Complaint (1982), by Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota; A Simple Case for Torture (1982), by Martha Rosier; River (1979-81), by Shigeko Kubota (video installation); Ohio at Giverny (1983), by Mary Lucier (video installation).

Frank Gillette: Oracle (1981-83), (video installation).