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Surveying the first decade : video art and alternative media in the U.S. / [produced by Video Data Bank, in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix and Bay Area Video Coalition ; producer, Kate Horsfield].
LIBRA DVD N6494.V53 S872 2008 v.1 discs 1-5
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental films.
- Video art.
- Video art--United States.
- Video art--United States--History.
- Mass media--United States.
- Mass media.
- History.
- United States.
- Mass media--United States--History.
- Art and architecture videos.
- Performance art--United States.
- Performance art.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 5 videodiscs (465 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Video art and alternative media in the U.S.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Video Data Bank, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD ; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "A comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video in the U.S. between 1968 and 1980" -- Program notes.
- Contents:
- Volume 1, Program 1. Explorations of presence, performance and audience (117 min.): Performer/Audience/Mirror (23 min., b&w, 1975) / Dan Graham
- Selected works (Dog duet, Used car salesman, Dog biscuit in a glass jar) (9 min., b&w, 1972) / William Wegman
- Baldessari sings LeWitt [Excerpt] (4 min., b&w, 1972) / John Baldessari
- Undertone [Excerpt] (9 min., b&w, 1972) / Vito Acconci
- Vertical roll (20 min., b&w, 1972) / Joan Jonas
- My father (15 min., b&w, 1975) / Shigeko Kubota
- Exchanges (36 min., b&w, 1973) / Robert Morris
- Volume 1, Program 2. Investigations of the phenomenal world : space, sound and light (116 min.): Black and white tapes [Excerpt] (7 min., b&w, 1970-75) / Paul McCarthy
- Stamping in the studio [Excerpt] (5 min., b&w, 1968) / Bruce Nauman
- Double vision (14 min., b&w, 1971) / Peter Campus
- Boomerang (10 min., col., 1974) / Richard Serra with Nancy Holt
- Island Song (16 min., b&w, 1976) / Charlemagne Palestine
- Cycles of 3s and 7s [Excerpt] (3 min., b&w, 1976) / Tony Conrad
- The children's tapes (30 min., b&w, 1974) / Terry Fox
- Soundings (18 min., col., 1979) / Gary Hill
- Lightning (1 min., b&w, 1976) / Paul and Marlene Kos
- Sweet light (9 min., col., 1977) / Bill Viola
- Volume 1, Program 3: Approaching narrative : "there are problems to be solved" (118 min.): The red tapes, part II (58 min., b&w, 1976) / Vito Acconci
- Out of the body travel [Excerpt] (24 min., b&w, 1976) / Richard Foreman
- The continuing story of Carel and Fred [Excerpt] (33 min., b&w and col., 1972-75) / Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America
- Volume 1,Program 4: Gendered confrontations (116 min.): Art herstory [Excerpt] (15 min., col., 1974) / Hermine Freed
- Female sensibility (13 min., col., 1973) / Lynda Benglis
- Ama l'uomo tuo (Always love your man) (19 min., b&w, 1975) / Cara DeVito
- The Mom tapes [Excerpt] (4 min., b&w and col., 1974-78) / Ilene Segalove
- Primal scenes (10 min., b&w, 1980) / Linda Montano
- Nun and deviant [Excerpt] (14 min., b&w, 1976) / Nancy Angelo and Candance Compton
- Vital statistics of a citizen, simply obtained (39 min., col., 1977) / Martha Rosler
- Notes:
- DVD release of short films originally produced between 1968-1980. First compiled for video in 1995.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred H. Gumaer Fund.
- Contains:
- Explorations of presence, performance and audience.
- Investigations of the phenomenal world : space, sound and light.
- Approaching narrative : there are problems to be solved.
- Gendered confrontations.
- OCLC:
- 257680292
- Online:
- Further information
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