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Transmission: Exhibition

Date
1999

Transmission: Exhibition. Bakalar and Huntington Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art. January 25th - February 27th, 1999.

David Atwood, Staff Director, WGBH, 1967-1980. Presenters: Fred Barzyk, Executive Producer, WGBH/New Television Workshop, 1964-1981 Russell Connor, artist/writer/producer Betsy Connors, video artist/holographer Susan Dowling, Executive Director, NTW, 1982-93, co-curator, Transmission Michèle Furst, Director, BF/VF, 1978-80, co-curator, Transmission Jennifer Hall, Environmental Design Department, MassArt, Do While Studio, Chrissie Iles, Curator of Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art Beryl Korot, video artist Dana Moser, Studio for Interrelated Media, MassArt Bob Riley, Curator of Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Special presentation on archiving and preserving video art by Carl Piermarini, Program Materials Supervisor and Selene Colburn, Project Archivist, New Television Workshop Project, Media Archives and Preservation Center, WGBH. Performance by Kristin Lucas. Installations include: Text and Commentary, 1977 by Beryl Korot. Egg Grows, 1984, by Nam June Paik.

Untitled (MPD), 1998, by Tony Oursler. Three Tales: Hindenburg, 1998, by Beryl Korot, video and Steve Reich, music. Videotapes by Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Betsey Connors, Peter Campus, Remy Charlip, Dan Wagoner, Marta Renzi, Dawn Kramer and Robin Doty, Ros Barron, Hilary Harris/ Bettie deJong, Bill Viola, Ron Hays, Trisha Brown.

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Transmission was an exhibition at the Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, January 25–February 27, 1999. David Atwood is listed as Staff Director, WGBH, 1967–1980; presenters and co-curators included Fred Barzyk (Executive Producer, WGBH/New Television Workshop, 1964–1981), Susan Dowling (Executive Director, NTW, 1982–93) and Michèle Furst (Director, BF/VF, 1978–80), with Chrissie Iles representing the Whitney Museum of American Art. Programming included a special presentation on archiving and preserving video art by Carl Piermarini and Selene Colburn (New Television Workshop Project, Media Archives and Preservation Center, WGBH), a performance by Kristin Lucas, installations by Beryl Korot and Nam June Paik, and videotapes by Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Betsey Connors, Peter Campus and others.

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