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A Chronology of Video Activity in the United States: 1965-1980 Bibliography

Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes The Poetics of Light and Time Bibliography

Bill Viola (born 1951, Flushing, New York) is a video artist who since the 1970s has used broadcast-quality electronic technology to produce videotapes and video-and-sound installations exploring layers of human consciousness; he trained at Syracuse University (College of Visual and Performing Arts, 1973) and worked at Synapse and WNET/Thirteen's Artists' Television Laboratory. He has collaborated with Kira Perov and engineers such as John Godfrey, lived and worked in Japan (including Sony's Atsugi facility), settled in southern California in 1981, and created works including Four Songs (1976), Chott el-Djerid (1979), Ancient of Days (1979–81), Hatsu Yume (1981), Reasons for Knocking (1982), Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986), and Passage (1987).

Independent Video and the Museum of Modern Art Bibliography

Independent Video: The First Fifteen Years Bibliography

New Video:Japan Bibliography

Time as Medium: Five Artists' Video Installations Bibliography

Essay examines how five artists—Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Dan Graham, Bill Viola, and Gary Hill—use video time in site-specific installations; discussed works include Nauman's Corridor Installation (1970), Paik's TV Buddha (1974), Graham's Present Continuous Past(s) (1974), Viola's Decay Time (1974), and Hill's Suspension of Disbelief (for Marinne) (1992). It traces the emergence of video art to the mid-1960s Portapak and situates artists' temporal experiments alongside ideas from Clement Greenberg, Einstein, Husserl, and William James; technologies cited include Portapak cameras, monitors/rasters, strobes, hidden cameras, and computer-controlled switching.

Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto Bibliography

Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto, organized and first shown at The Museum of Modern Art in April 1979, is part of "Japan Today," a series of cultural programs held during the spring of 1979 in five United States cities. "Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto" was made possible by grants from the Na…

Video Spaces: Eight Installations Bibliography

Survey essay tracing video art from the mid-1960s Portapak to international installations of the early 1990s; discusses technological shifts (half-inch open-reel tape, Paik-Abe image processor, 3/4-inch videocassette) and early exhibitions at MoMA (1968), Howard Wise Gallery (1969), ICA Philadelphia (1975), Centre Pompidou (1990), and Documenta IX (1992). Presents eight environmental video projects and artists with dates and works: Judith Barry/Brad Miskell Ha®dCell (1994), Stan Douglas Evening (1994), Teiji Furuhashi Lovers (1994), Gary Hill Inasmuch as It Is Always Already Taking Place (1990), Chris Marker Silent Movie (1994–95), Marcel Odenbach Make a Fist in the Pocket (1994), Tony Oursler System for Dramatic Feedback (1994), and Bill Viola Slowly Turning Narrative (1992).

Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983 Bibliography

Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983 in Art Journal: Video - The Reflexive Medium