Interviews
46 records
A Manner of Speaking: An Interview with Gary Hill Interview
Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica) is a sculptor and video artist who moved east in 1969 and began making videotapes at Woodstock Community Video in the early 1970s; his work evolved from sculpture and analog/digital image experiments to language-based tapes and multi-monitor installations. He worked with Portapaks, a Siegel colorizer, an analog-to-digital converter and small frame buffer (64x64), and a Rutt/Etra scan processor; notable works include Bathing, Windows, Sums and Differences, Picture Story, Around and About, Videograms, Primarily Speaking, Mesh, Glass Onion and Equal Time. He received production grants from the NEA, NYSCA and WNET, a Rockefeller video artists' fellowship in 1981 and a United States/Japan Exchange fellowship in 1982; the interview was recorded in Barrytown, N.Y., on Oct. 28, 1982 and Jan. 5, 1983.
An Interview with Barbara Buckner Interview
Video artist Barbara Buckner has been working with image processing devices for more than 10 years. She discovered video in 1972 after studying film and began working with processing tools. Over the years, she gained access to and explored the possibilities of increasingly complicated systems; inclu…
An Interview with George Stoney Interview
George C. Stoney (born 1916) is a community and media activist, film and video professor, and maker of about 40 sponsored social and educational documentaries including All My Babies (1952). He became executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change in 1968 and pioneered half‑inch video experiments and community training (VTR‑St. Jacques; Drumheller, 1969); after returning to New York he chaired NYU’s Undergraduate Division and co‑founded the Alternate Media Center (1972). He helped design an NEA‑funded cable internship program that produced 29 interns and contributed to the founding of the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers (1976); the interview was recorded August–September 1983.
An Interview with Peer Bode Interview
Peer Bode began producing video around 1971 with an early black-and-white portapak while an undergraduate at SUNY Binghamton; he worked with filmmakers Larry Gottheim and Ken Jacobs and used the Experimental TV Center's keyers, mixers and colorizers. Remaining in Binghamton through the mid-1970s, he collaborated with the American Dance Asylum and with engineers and artists Ralph Hocking, Nam June Paik, Shuya Abe, David Jones and Walter Wright on tools such as the Paik-Abe Colorizer/Synthesizer, SEGs, Scan-A-Mate, a Spatial and Intensity Digitizer and an Elf II computer.
An Interview with Taka Iimura Interview
Edited transcript of an interview with video artist Taka Iimura conducted at a screening of his tapes at Arton's Calgary in Toronto on April 16, 1978; interviewer identified as Centerfold. Iimura outlines his Observer/Observed series (Camera, Monitor, Frame, 1976; Observer/Observed, 1975; Observer/Observed/Observer, 1976), describes pre-production diagrams and shooting-script procedures, and details the closed-circuit video system components (camera, monitor, videorecorder) and technical distinctions from film. He discusses synchronization of magnetic sound and image, the monitor as object, role-switching of observer and observed, use of English versus Japanese language logic, and political implications, citing Godard's A Letter to Jane.
An Interview with Walter Wright Interview
An Interview with Walter Wright, conducted by Greg Bowman, as part of the activities at "Video History: Making Connections", a conference organized by the Experimental Television Center in 1998. Created, resarched, written and edited by Greg Bowman. Special thanks to the Experimental Television Cent…
An Intervivew with LoVid Interview
Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus scramble ordinary TV output into hyperkinetic audiovisual abstraction using homemade electronic devices, repurposed analog toys, and low-res video loops. Visit them at ignivomous.org.
Beck - Vasulka Interview Interview
Interview with Stephen Beck Created with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Experimental TV Center in collaboration with the Vasulkas, c 1977. The research project concerned the design and creation of electronic moving-image instruments by independent artists and engineers, and …
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.
Cage: A Filmic Circus on Metaphors on Vision An Interview with Film Artist Lawrence Brose Interview
Cage: A Filmic Circus on Metaphors on Vision An Interview with Film Artist Lawrence Brose Discussion of Lawrence Brose's video and film portrait of John Cage.A portion of the film was created through the Residency Program at the Experimental Television Center.
Christiane Robbins interviewed by Tara McPherson Interview
Christiane Robbins interviewed by Tara McPherson Interview for REBOOT v.2. Permission to reprint by author. Tara McPherson, is Chair, Department of Critical Studies, School Of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.
Constructing Eternity: An Interview with Van McElwee Interview
Van McElwee is a video artist who reconstructs realities through dense, collage-like layering; his single-channel works and multi-screen installations include Folded Follies (1993), Bindu (1993), Fragments of India (1993), Transfinite Loops (1996), Radio Island (1997), Luxor (1998) and Confluence (1999). T. L. Reid interviewed McElwee in August 1999 at Webster University, St. Louis; the record states he has produced over 30 videos and installations, and that the Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis presented his work across its entire third floor while Columbus, Ohio's Science Museum purchased his Transport installation. His work has been broadcast on 260 PBS stations and he received seven NEA Independent Production Fund fellowships and a Government of India travel grant.
Dialog with Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller Hocking, Peer Bode, Pamela Hawkins and Carolyn Tennant Interview
Dialog with Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller Hocking, Peer Bode, Pamela Hawkins and Carolyn Tennant
Electronic Zen: The Alternative Video Generation Jud Yalkut Interviews Eric Siegel Television Is The Last Communication Link We Have To Change This Country Interview
Eric Siegel (b.1944), interviewed in 1970, built his first TV camera at fifteen and won New York City Science Fair awards for home-made closed-circuit television projects; he worked in closed-circuit television and in 1966 in the Educational TV Department at the University of London. In 1968 he produced the videotape program PSYCHEDELEVISION for the Channel One closed-circuit theatre, designed special-effects components for TELEVANILLA at the Martinique Theatre, exhibited at the Howard Wise Gallery and Brandeis University (VISION AND TELEVISION, 1970), repaired a two-inch Ampex helical-scan recorder, developed a colorizer and planned a video synthesizer while discussing technology, distribution and television's social role.
Electronic Zen: The Alternative Video Generation Self-Correction Through Cybernetics Jud Yalkut Interviews Paul Ryan Interview
Paul Ryan discusses Kleinform theory and the EARTHSCORE project with interviewer Jud Yalkut, arguing that videotape feedback reveals individual firstness and enables triadic, self-corrective behavior; he situates the work in relation to cybernetics, McLuhan, and his 1973 book Birth and Death and Cybernation and references an unpublished 1971 rap. He describes technical practice with a Sony portable/portapak and continuous-tape procedures, and he outlines EARTHSCORE as an intentional community of minimum 36 people organized into creche, chreod and work self-corrective cells with the Canon of Self Correction, never less than three.
Electronic Zen: The Alternative Video Generation Talking Heads in Videospace: A Video Meta-Panel with Shirley Clarke, Bill Etra, Nam June Paik, Walter Wright and Jud Yalkut Interview
Radio meta-panel recorded February 4, 1973 for WBAI-FM in New York, hosted by Jud Yalkut, convenes Shirley Clarke, Nam June Paik, Bill Etra and Walter Wright to survey the alternate video scene and prospects for video art within the Pacifica ARTISTS AND CRITICS series. Panelists discuss practices and technologies including the Paik-Abe and Rutt-Etra video synthesizers, portapaks, videotape, computer-generated imagery (Wright has worked with computer images since 1965), distribution and two-way cable access; the record references the Kitchen, Binghampton Community TV Center, Paul Ryans time-delay feedback piece and New York State Council on the Arts support.
Excerpts from Tambellini's Black Electromedia, an interview by Sal Fallica with Otto Piene, Elizabeth Goldberg and Vin Grabill Interview
Excerpts from Tambellini's Black Electromedia is an interview by Sal Fallica published in CENTERVIDEO at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT; Otto Piene with Elizabeth Goldring and Vin Grabill are listed as editors. Aldo Tambellini recounts childhood experiences in Italy and wartime bombing, describes producing extensive 35mm Space Series slides and the Black 2 events on the Lower East Side, and discusses his turn to television. He documents acquiring a SONY CV 2000 videocorder in summer 1967, broadcasting a tape on ABC-TV Channel 7 on December 2, 1967, and later copying tapes at Videoflight using waveform monitoring equipment.
Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider: Parts I and II of an Interview Interview
Originally published in the East Village Other on July 30, 1969 (Vol 4, No. 35) and August 6, 1969 (Vol. 4 No. 36); reproduced in Radical Software, Summer 1970, and in Electronic Zen: The Alternate Video. Attributed to Jud Yalkut; listed as an unpublished manuscript dated 1984.
Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker Gerald O'Grady. In German Interview
Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker Gerald O'Grady. In German.
Interview with Carol Goss and Walter Wright Interview
Carol Goss and Walter Wright, pioneers of live video performance, were interviewed by Benton Bainbridge at the Not Still Art Festival in Cooperstown, NY on April 25, 1998. Both developed realtime collaborative video at the Experimental Television Center in the early 1970s (Wright was Artist in Residence, second ever, 1972) and described performances such as Axis in Soho with Sun Ra, equipment including the Paik/Abe, David Jones Colorizer, Live! Board, oscillators, Serge modules and Sandin Image Processor, and touring, residencies and workshop practices.
Interview with David Jones Interview
Interview with David Jones An interview by Carolyn Tennant with tool designer David Jones.
Interview with Jud Yalkut Interview
Jud Yalkut, an experimental filmmaker whose films and inter-media events have been exhibited at the Everson Museum, discusses his practice working in film and videotape and his collaboration with Nam June Paik beginning in 1965; he mixes film and video through editing, superimposition and generational transfers and employs hand-held camera work, high-speed and time-lapse photography and single-frame techniques. He emphasizes dislocating ordinary perception to create layered, multi-image, non-narrative works—examples include Video Film Concert and the robot sequence in P*AxI-K—and cites influences such as McLuhan, Stan Brakhage and Eisenstein.
Interview with Nancy Meli Walker: Jamming with The Poool and NNeng Interview
Nancy Meli Walker, who shifted from fashion design to cast-glass sculpture integrating computer animation and live television, and Benton Bainbridge, an NYU-trained video artist with early experience in Super 8, electronics and live performance, are core members of live video-performance group The Poool alongside Angie Eng; they have performed together in and around New York City since 1993. Bainbridge co-founded the 77Hz group with Philip R. Bonner, Jonathan Giles, Eric Schefter and Michael Schell and held a residency at the Experimental Television Center in 1989; NYU acquired a Fairlight CVI in 1985. The Poool performs about once a year with largely scripted suites, while NNeng (No Eng) performs about monthly with more improvisation, including collaboration with musician Brian Moran.
Interview with Peer Bode Interview
Peer Bode discusses his long involvement with the Experimental Television Center (ETC; 1971–78 Binghamton, 1978–present Owego, NY), where he taught resident artists, developed and modified low-cost video tools and studio practices, and collaborated with figures such as Nam June Paik. He contrasts 1970s material- and process-focused electronic practices (portapaks, Paik-Abe synthesizer, SEG) with 1980s appropriation and corporate funding pressures, noting distribution via WNET and publications like Radical Software. Bode produced Video Locomotion (1978) and Music on Triggering Surfaces (1978) and directs the Video Arts Program at the N.Y.S.C.C. at Alfred University.
Interview with Philip Mallory Jones Interview
Interview with Philip Mallory Jones