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TV as a Creative Medium

Date
1969

TV as a Creative Medium exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery May 17 - June 14, 1969. Serge Boutourline (Telediscretion); Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider (Wipe Cycle); Nam June Paik (Participation TV); Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman (TV Bra for Living Sculpture); Earl Reiback (Three Experiments within the TV Tube); Paul Ryan (Everyman's Moebius Strip); John Seery (TV Time Capsule); Eric Siegel (Psychedelevision in Color); Thomas Tadlock (The Archetron); Aldo Tambellini (Black Spiral); Joe Weintraub (AC/TV - Audio Controlled Television).

Howard Wise is the introduction to program notes cites the obsolescence of the machine and the overwhelming effects of TV on culture and society.

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"TV as a Creative Medium." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/node/6002.

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TV as a Creative Medium was presented at Howard Wise Gallery May 17–June 14, 1969; the exhibition included works by Serge Boutourline (Telediscretion), Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider (Wipe Cycle), Nam June Paik (Participation TV) and Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman (TV Bra for Living Sculpture), and works by Earl Reiback, Paul Ryan, John Seery, Eric Siegel, Thomas Tadlock, Aldo Tambellini and Joe Weintraub. Howard Wise, in the introduction to the program notes, cites the obsolescence of the machine and the overwhelming effects of TV on culture and society.

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