Evolution : Aldo Tambellini - Electromedia & The Black Film Series

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• Expanded Cinema. Aldo Tambellini: Black TV Bibliography

  introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller; Section: Synaesthetic Videotapes; Pictures and text describe Tambellini's Black TV. Available at https://artscilab.org/expandedcinema.html

• Aldo Tambellini Chronology

  "Black: Video" by Aldo Tambellini in "Some More Beginnings," Brooklyn Museum, New York, organized by Experiments in Art and Technology

• Eigenwelt Der Apparate-Welt, Pioneers of Electronic Art: Aldo Tambellini: Black Spiral (TV Sculpture), 1969 Bibliography

  From Pioneers of Electronic Art, David Dunn (ed.). Ars Electronica: Linz, Austria. 1992. Aldo Tambellini. Black Spiral. Text by Woody Vasulka. Thanks to Aldo Tambellini and Woody Vasulka for permission to display.

• Boston Now: Interview with Aldo Tambellini Interview

  Aldo Tambellini (born 1930, Syracuse, New York) moved to New York in 1959 and worked in sculpture, painting, 16 mm film and video, founding Electromedia and the Gate and Black Gate Theatres. He produced artist broadcasts including Black TV (1968), Medium is the Medium (WGBH, 1969) and Inauguration '81, and developed the Communicationsphere for interactive telecommunications using slow-scan television and two-way cable TV with Sarah Dickinson. He was a 1977 Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and received project grants from the M.l.T Council for the Arts (1979, 1981), the New York State Council on the Arts (1973), and the Oberhausen International Grand Prix (1969); he exhibited at MoMA and the Everson Museum.

• Expanded Cinema Bibliography

  Intermedia artist and filmmaker Aldo Tambellini produced synaesthetic videotapes, videographic films and closed-circuit teledynamic environments centered on the theme of black; his 16mm film Black TV (1964–68, 9½ min.) compiles television news and experimental videotapes and was re-edited over a four-year period. He began working with videotape in 1966–67 and received a New York State Council on the Arts grant in spring 1969 to develop artist–engineer relationships, working with technologists at five educational TV stations in New York; he participated in WGBH-TV Boston's 1969 PBL program The Medium Is the Medium, producing the videotape Black. Black Video Two (1968) was exhibited at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York in 1967; Wise later commissioned Black Spiral with engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories.

• Aldo Tambellini c/o Anna Consoli People

  Aldo Tambellini (born Syracuse, New York, 1930) trained at Scuola D'Arte Augusto Passaglia and Syracuse University (B.F.A., 1954) and earned an M.F.A. in sculpture at Notre Dame (1959); he moved to New York City in 1959 and founded Group Center, the Gate Theatre and, with Otto Piene, the Black Gate. He was an early pioneer of alternative video and won the International Grand Prix at the Oberhausen Film Festival (1969) for Black TV, now in MoMA, and organized national and international artist television broadcasts. He was a Fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1976–84), formed the Communicationsphere group and led numerous telecommunication and slow-scan satellite/video projects, including picturephone and international slow-scan events; his work appeared in exhibitions at MoMA, Howard Wise Gallery, documenta 6 and Bienale '83.