"The male/female, subject/object investigation in A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More does not have any titillating episodes leading up to it. The appetite is not whetted beforehand. Hardcore, the opening shot shows the crotch area of two bodies, male and female, engaged in coitus. The ca ...

In A Budding Gourmet, Rosler explores the ideological processes through which food preparation comes to be seen as "cuisine," a product of national culture. Accompanied by the strains of a violin concerto, Rosler's deadpan narrator explains her reasons for wanting to become a gourmet. Photog ...

This historical tape, restored through EAI's Preservation Program, documents a conversation among artists Joseph Beuys, Douglas Davis and Nam June Paik at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York in 1974. During the discussion, they introduce the theme of the potential for artists' use of satellite tech ...

Robert Longo, one of the most prominent of the 1980's postmodern "picture artists," discusses his work and influences in this interview with Gorewitz and Barry Blinderman. An articulate subject, Longo discusses his interest in appropriating cinematic images and form, a strategy reflected in his larg ...

This fragmented documentary/fiction uses a tourist's travel recordings to illuminate what Santos terms the "domestic language" of Super-8 film and the politics of cultural documentation. Super-8 footage shot and narrated by a 78-year-old Brazilian tourist — shaky scenes of Paris, Rome and Lond ...

Trecartin hurtles the viewer into a narrative universe dominated by the fleeting logic of text messaging, MySpace, pop music, and disposable culture. He takes the clichéd gay coming-out story and processes it and reprocesses it until it is almost unrecognizable. Trecartin stars as Skippy, a colorful and troubled teenager with a secret. After a failed suicide attempt, his parents catch him with a boy in his room, he is hit by a car, his friends throw a party, and he rises from the dead in time for fireworks.

"Using the structure of a feature film as its basic format, A First Quarter adopts the principles of nouvelle vague cinema as its role model. Simultaneous realities, altered flashbacks, plays on time and space are all components of the form and content of the film. Because it was originally shot in video and then kinescoped to 16 mm film, [it] has acquired a poetic, soft look. The dialogue consists entirely of the work as it is spoken and read, built, enacted, written and painted by the players. As the scenarios build, they appear as tropes, one after another."

Based on a play about sexual difference by fifteen-year-old Ella Tideman, A Jar Full of Jam is performed entirely by a cast of teenage males. Structuring the work on two levels — a rehearsal and a document of the rehearsal — Labat refigures the role of the viewer and deconstructs ...

Kipnis has constructed a video essay that asserts an effective social critique through pseudo-documentary and narrative devices. Clovis Kingsley, powerful, pro-family, anti-feminist ideologue, author of The Power of Total Submission — and a woman who has traveled the country insisting t ...

In 2003, Schneider re-edited his 1970 video Media Primer. Originally produced while Schneider was a part of Raindance, the 1970s media collective he co-founded with Paul Ryan and Michael Shamberg, the Media Primer juxtaposes television commercials, news footage, and Portapak documentation of countercultural events such as the Altamont rock concert.

In A Mosaic for the Kali Yuga, a relentlessly accelerating repetition of media fragments laid out in building-block succession depicts technological society gone critical mass — succinctly realizing its epilogue, the Vishnu Parnan's prophecy foretelling the contemporary confusion of inn ...

In this collaborative "verbal drawing," Fluxus artist, painter and poet Emmett Williams is profiled by his friends and colleagues. Fifteen artists, poets and writers convened in the Form Hotel in Warsaw, Poland to pay tribute to Williams in the form of personal anecdotes.

Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the editorial pages of Newsweek magazine. Her critique is formulated through voiceover narration and an on-camera collection of print media — articles on subjects ran ...

In this piece, Steina, a pioneer of electronic signal manipulation, applies digital technology to alter our sense of video space and time. Through computer effects, a montage of seemingly arbitrary shots of Japanese religious sites and natural settings becomes a hypnotic vortex. Speech and text are ...

Hámos and German artist Astrid Heibach collaborated on this lyrical work, the text of which is based on a dialogue from Plato's Symposium. The erotic, the philosophical and the ironic are seamlessly interwoven in this interpretive visualization of a dialogue on the nature of love and eros. Th ...

Television on speed, Nam June Paik's A Tale of Two Cities is a potpourri of pop personalities, avant-garde antics and international cultural kitsch, where past, present and future collide in the kaleidoscopic, hyper-kinetic, televisually "now."

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form during the telecine process.

A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemporary art and music, Cage was one of the primary influences on Paik's work, as well as his friend and frequent collaborator. In this multifaceted po ...

With irreverent good humor, this affectionate homage to artist Nam June Paik uses Paik's own rapid-fire editing and dizzying collage techniques to evoke his wide-ranging influence in video and contemporary art. Excerpts from Paik's tapes and installations ...

Ramos' astute deconstruction of television news focuses on the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 declaration of amnesty for Vietnam War draft evaders, and his personal involvement with the issue. Ramos, who had served an eighteen-month prison sentence for draft evasion, was interviewed ...

Baldino explores both the sublime and mundane aspects of symmetry, from the physicist Lee Smolin discussing "super-symmetry," to individuals confessing their design for eating corn on the cob. Sliding across the screen, each image produces a clone; the ceaseless, conveyor belt-like motion suggests the senselessness of manufacture and machinery, and the maddening frustration of the need for balance.

Writes Lucas: "This video carries the tension of an audition or screen test. I am called onstage for a test drive around a virtual race course, a metaphor for the information superhighway. My intention for this video is to investigate the term 'action' as it applies to the contemporary lifestyle."

"Actions" is one of more than a dozen newly restored works by Muntadas, including early media interventions and works produced for television that were recently made available.

Working with both video and music forms as a member of, respectively, the art collective X-PRZ and the band SWIPE, Cokes employs appropriation and re-presentation in his art. In Ad Vice his source material includes advertising slogans, rock lyrics, and music videos. Cokes offers one phrase a ...

Originally commissioned by the Sony Corporation of Japan and performed live on the JumboTRON, a fourteen-story TV set at the Expo in Tsukuba, Japan, Adelic Penguins is a collaboration between Fitzgerald, artist Paul Garrin, and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also appears as a performer). Stru ...

Adjunct Dislocations II documents a technically inventive performance. VALIE EXPORT moves along a track with two closed-circuit cameras that are facing different directions and are focused upon patterned screens. Her action creates changing linear shapes on monitor banks within the space.

TVTV turns its critical eye to the world of advertising in Adland, subtitled Where Commercials Come From. Focusing on the reality behind the image, and specifically on the strategies of Madison Avenue, they interview prominent 1970s admen such as George Lois and Jerry Della Femina. The ...

Deploying fragments of sound and image in a confounding shell-game, Adynata challenges notions of Asianness and the East. Thornton, appearing in the guise of a 19th-century Mandarin and his wife, explores oppositions of femininity and masculinity concealed in Orientalist assumptions. Here, lushly beautiful scenarios function as double-edged critical tools, inhabiting the discourse that they critique.

Working at night, under the glare of automobile headlights, a man scours and restores the facade of a building in New York's Soho district. With this visual metaphor, Barr opens Aeros, a look at the evolution of Trisha Brown's dance work Astral Convertible. Choreographed by Brown, with ...

This elegant study in abstraction and landscape from an aerial perspective takes its title from the Montgolfiers, the 18th-century French scientists who popularized balloon travel. Documenting an exhilarating ride in a hot-air balloon over Minnesota farmlands and cityscapes, Gigliotti's study of abs ...

Europe's enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks. The Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis, and London Bridge are reflected in the glossy surface of a 1960's Cadillac convertible, the ultimate symbol of the "golden age" of American consumerism.

Auder notes that the artist Alice Neel was both a close friend and an inspiration to him. Writing in The New York Times in 1980, Helen Harrison stated, "Alice Neel is far from a straightforward conversation with the irrepressible and calculatingly outrageous artist. The camera cannot r ...

In Alive! Artist! Model! Pleasure!, Donegan calls into question the institutional armature that surrounds a work of art, and investigates boundaries between "high" and "low" culture. In a nondescript suburban bedroom, a woman watching late-night television catches Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin ...

A deceptively charming psychological set-piece, All About a Girl depicts a young girl wrestling with her own imagination and fears. An ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, she projects life, voice, and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress.

Pearlstein explores relationships among psychology, ritual and religion. The piece was filmed within an installation by Simon Foreman. An interior white cube bathed in intense light is viewed through a square window; a 70's kitsch picture depicting Christ hangs discretely on the back wall of the ancillary space. Pearlstein takes up Foreman's consideration of the relationship between Christianity and modernism, while also instigating interactions between psychology and the search for alternative consciousness, ritual and religion.

Arcangel brings a willfully lo-fi aesthetic to bear in manipulating a consumer video document of a twenty-year-old Simon and Garfunkel concert; his concerns lie as much with the event's reproduction and dissemination as with any of its supposedly original qualities. Investigating the social production of celebrity and its representations, Arcangel touches on issues of bootlegging, amateurism, and a culture in which participation can border on obsession.

"This piece is a Screen Grab tutorial of how to make simple computer graphics using the BASIC programming language. This continues JODI's work for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.... You can follow along with JODI as they programme the ZX Spectrum in real time..." The resulting conceptual piece unfolds as a witty performative rendering of graphics and text that highlight the abstract poetics of this early computer language.

In Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint, the influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (whose father Louis was a poet in his own right) and performance artist/sculptor Allan ...

Uncovering the "hidden text" of network news footage, Allegory of Oblivion is a dark deconstruction of television's subliminal power. Feingold recorded the news on a nightly basis from November 1980 to May 1981. The resulting visual sequences, arranged chronologically and separated by a solid ...

In what Hall has termed the "world's shortest documentary," Almost Like a Dance captures the power of Olympic weightlifter Mario Martinez as he lifts 404.5 lbs. With subtle wit, Hall monumentalizes a small moment. Utilizing slow motion and varying camera angles, Hall simultaneously parodies t ...

Rist's well-developed techniques of the personal, the pop and the mass cultural are distilled in this work. Against a backdrop of tranquil Swiss Alpine scenes, a small window presents a graphic record of human birth. This visual confrontation, unsentimentally depicting an event that has historically symbolized female difference and power, insistently draws attention from the contemplative natural views beyond.

"The mise-en-scene, the whole story, takes place in one location, the artist's studio. A delicate psychological allegory on 'a day in the life of' anchors the displacement of (filmic) reality and the alienation of the (players) self. Devices such as incongruity between the image and the soundtrack, odd camera angles, and plays on objective focus are integral and explicit components of the narrative... It is shot in black and white with very sensual, very seductive photography." - Alice Weiner

This classic documentary is both character study and social commentary — a portrait of DeVito's grandmother, Adeline LeJudas, and a telling critique of a patriarchal society. Interviewed by DeVito in her Brooklyn home, Adeline recounts the violence she suffered at her abusive husband's hands, ...

Callas writes: "This tape takes the alphabet as its theme. By addressing the location or positioning of letters within the alphabet as 'enforced' (or predetermined) edits, it questions this given structure and at the same time attempts to exhume some of the possible sharmanic origins of the shape of ...

"The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972... With the exception of a dozen apples, flour, maple syrup, and eggs which I brought, all the cooking 'material,' utensils, and props were discovered in the jumble. Objects which functionally approximated actual cooking utensils were used: nails, hammers, an arrow, a flower pot, ball bearings, rags, a watering can. The cook's apron was a ripped mini skirt with which I covered my hair...."

Arriving at its epilogue text through elegantly precise visualizations, Amida initiates Reeves' formal poetic strategies. A quote from Tozan that concludes the tape announces Reeves' concept of visual poetry: "It is difficult to hear with the ears; but when we hear it with the eyes, then we k ...

A chilling cautionary tale, Amnesia is a stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in the current neo-conservative climate of both France and the U.S.

Embraced by a fuschia boa and the Donizetti aria, Hodel looks at her image in a gold mirror. The object of her longing, revealed in short intercut frames, is a masculine silhouette gazing out to sea.

Amphibian was a collaborative video/dance performance by Lucier and choreographer Elizabeth Streb. In this unique fusion of dance and video, Streb performed on a raked platform between two large screens showing different sets of video images. Streb portrays a mythological creature in the proc ...

A work of often visceral power, An I For An I is a dynamic cultural statement on the internalization of racism and violence. Andrews assails the cause and effect of institutionalized and mass media exploitation, which he states is "directed at and produced by our culture, attacking the mind a ...

The ironic themes and strategies of the Soap Opera Series continue in this postmodern tale of artistic and sexual crises in Southern California. Boredom and alienation, the banality of fantasies and reality, and the need for idealized romance afflict the cliche-driven characters that wander t ...

Dunye employs home movies, old film clips and her own spare visuals to sketch an oblique portrait of her older brother. The soundtrack, built around memory and anecdotes, grapples with the difficulties of portraiture while also revealing, almost as asides, pointed moments from Dunye's family history ...

Drawing on images from Paik's 1970s experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current digital effects technology to create a multilayered montage that references both the old and the new. An eerie electronic score from 1969 floats over ghostly processed images; the result is a paean to the way the future was.

This richly layered InteRom (a CD-ROM work with Internet hyperlinks) explores a comprehensive archive of Muntadas's work, traversing three-dimensional models, video landscapes and critical writings.

Digital Snow is a comprehensive DVD-ROM collection devoted to the works of experimental filmmaker/artist Michael Snow. A virtual encyclopedia of Snow's works, Digital Snow features original interviews, video excerpts, musical extracts, rare documentaries and records for over 700 of his works. In addition to the extensive DVD-ROM material, this collection includes two catalogs with introductory texts, an outline of the main principles in Snow's work, content summaries, instructions, and more. Text in English and French.

Subtitled An Escapist Primer, Andros is the journey of a man who is desperately trying to escape from his internal world, his pain and ultimately himself. Shot entirely from a subjective point of view, this confrontational video journey begins with the man watching television in a dark room, ...

Performance Camera: Larry Solomon. 'An Imperial Message' camera: Michel Auder. Editor: Roughcut Studio. Music: Blondie, Kraftwerk. Appearance by Kathleen Kendel as the White Witch.

Writes Kuchar: "A youth and a geezer or two chew the fat about cosmic mysteries beyond the realm of scientific digestion."

Writes Viola: "A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The image sequences — fruit falling from a tree, a candle being extinguished, a family having a flash photograph taken — appear as a series of op ...

Anger is a riveting portrait of an emotion. Commissioned by German television, this startling document is part of The Seven Deadly Sins, a work in which each "sin" was depicted by a female filmmaker. Cohen began by placing an advertisement in The Village Voice, asking, "Angry? W ...

Writes Condit: "Annie Lloyd is a daughter's complex and poetic documentation of the last four yeras of her mother's life and a portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.

Displaying her distinctive candor, performance artist Annie Sprinkle discusses her work, sexuality, and her life in this video portrait.

Pairing dated East German techno music with early twentieth-century film reels of cabaret lines and vaudevillean dance productions, Another Worldy forces the viewer to question categories of "old" and "new," "good" and "bad."

Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes is a freewheeling portapak time capsule that captures the collective spirit of Ant Farm's life and work in California in the early 1970s. The artists use the early portable camera as an interactive sketchbook. Writes Chip Lord: "It's an anthology of clips from the first year of living with a Portapak and it gives a fairly good representation of the way we lived in those days - collectively, loosely, improvisationally."

Fitzgerald and Sanborn began the Antarctica series to explore innovative collaborations with contemporary musicians. In Ear to the Ground, David Van Tieghem uses the city of Manhattan as his musical instrument, playing the surfaces of the sidewalks, buildings and phone booths with his ...

These early works are raw, often primal expressions of anguish and alienation. Bozanich directly confronts the viewer, using the immediacy and intimacy of video as a psychodramatic construct.

In the evocative Return, Bozanich stares into the camera as shifting light and layered glimpse ...

Anthem is a post-industrial lamentation, structured on the single piercing scream of a young girl as she stands in the vast chamber of Union Station in Los Angeles. Viola relates this structure to the form and function of religious chants, particularly Gregorian chants (using a harmonic scale ...

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between desire and commodities. For instance, footage of the Hitler youth with "S" shirts performing a swastika is overlaid with an ad for "Stabil." Products become ...

This work is a single-channel version of the 1971 five-monitor piece Apple Eaters, in which poet and composer Anne Tardos asked artists and other friends to "pose" for her while eating an apple. The result is a portrait of Tardos and her environment in the downtown New York art scene of the early 1970s. Among the "apple eaters" seen here are artists Charles Atlas, Gianfranco Mantegna, and Juan Downey.

A woman kisses Acconci's body, covering him in red lipstick traces. Acconci then rubs his body against another man (Dennis Oppenheim), transferring the stains onto him.

Bell-Smith and Pandian's re-edit of a 1989 Paula Abdul music video was created from a lo-res Web video, creating a look that references YouTube hobbyist remixing and fan edits. In their version, one line of the song - "I like to smoke" - is seamlessly substituted for other lyrics, turning the rote rhetoric of the original pop song into an absurdist dialogue. By exploiting the song's structure, they not only call attention to that structure, but also question the cultural environment within which it was created.

Silver casts her female gaze onto a series of anonymous male subjects that she follows through the streets of the Marais district in Paris. The resulting "surveillance narrative," which features the music of Jo Privat, is an observation of viewing, power, and privacy in a public space.

With April is the Cruelest Month, Kubota continues her ongoing video diary project. Here she reflects on her relationship with her husband Nam June Paik, in a collage of documents including interviews, performances and installations, as well as footage of the couple in Miami Beach, where they spent their winter months.

"...The work explodes into dance, the dance of the bucking horse, the bull, the clown, the rodeo rider. This is the resplendent West, but Lucier undermines its glory with loss. Brilliantly, the artist sets her choreography to George Strait's Country Western song, I Can Still Make Cheyenne. The music and the images cascade back over themselves, folding, repositioning, repeating, alive with rapture...and, again, longing." (Laurel Reuter, Director, North Dakota Museum of Art)

Writes Silver: "Jerry loves Jill, Jill loves John, John loves John, and so goes the story of Are We All Here?, a narrative video with a strange twist. Because inexplicably, at the least opportune moment, and accompanied by the ringing of a doorbell, Jill, Jerry and John change into each other ...

Kinetic and synthetic, these dynamic "music videos" are vibrant, day-glo illuminations of the psychedelic music of Jimi Hendrix.

Arena was presented both as a live performance and as a video shoot on two weekends at Salon 94 in New York, one month before the presidential election and concurrent with the debates. Its theme and structure echo these events. The video is a real-time mix of three camera points of view, serving both as a document and an independent piece. Exposing the mechanics of the live event and the fiction of the narrative,Arena examines the essential components of competition, hierarchies, and the dynamics of power.

"Footage shot from the New York IRT and the Berlin S-Bahn are shifted and shuffled, interpenetrating in space and time with enthralling dexterity, leaving us adrift between the familiar and the strange, while personal diary entries, a Russian ballad and dubbed dialogue from 8 1/2 are rehea ...

A preface of sorts to Primarily Speaking, Around & About is a speech-driven image procession that self-consciously addresses the nature of a shared reality with the viewer. Around & About is an eloquently concrete conjunction of text and image, us ...

Around the Park was a public art project commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservency in New York in autumn 2007. The video, which stars Wegman's canine cast enjoying a fall day in the park, was presented on four outdoor monitors near Madison Square Park's food kiosk.

In this exercise in associative meaning and word/image conjoinment, Baldessari pins a sequence of photographs to a wall below the "headline" Art Disaster, which has been torn from a newspaper. While some of the photos are clear, others are illegible. The viewer reads the images in relati ...

This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows the visitor to reconsider the experience of space, earth and sky within an urban context. It also se ...

Theo Eshetu records a 1989 Fluxus event in Paris. Shooting with handheld video, Eshetu silently captures performances by Charlotte Moorman and Yoko Ono, among others. While sometimes wandering into abstraction, the up-close video technique allows a unique, fly-on-the-wall glimpse of a rare Fluxus performance event.

A solo performance where Schneemann critiques art world pieties and fetishes by employing Marxist, feminist and semiotic analysis.

In each of these four related films, the artist applies a successive layer of colored makeup (white, pink, green, and finally black) to his face and upper torso. While he masks himself literally, the title implies that in so doing he also creates himself, "makes himself up." Initially the films we ...

Art of Memory is a major work, an original and mature articulation of Vasulka's inquiry into the meaning of recorded images. Constructing a haunted theater of memory from a spectacle of filmic and electronic images, Vasulka collapses and transforms collective memory and history in an enigmati ...

The streets of Minneapolis are transformed into a carnival of unconventional performance, as Blumberg spiritedly captures five artists in "that verité experience — caught in the act of creating." A two hundred-foot balloon sculpture by Susan Keiser, sculptor Donald Lipski's one hundred can-kic ...

Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of animation according to the representation of women, from the cell imagery of Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series to the contemporary digital effects of television.

Artifacts is a didactic demonstration of the syntax and vocabulary of the digital image, via the electronic capabilities of the Digital Image Articulator. Vasulka's intent is to create a dialogue, a symbiotic relationship between artist and machine. "By artifacts," he states, "I mean that I h ...

In Artificial Illuminations, Asher records patterns, shadows, and traces of ambient light; the embodiment of temporary lives.

In this black and white performance tape, Donegan continues her ironic exploration of the process of making art. Working within the format of a music video, Donegan plays with notions of artist and model, subject and object, and the "painterly gesture."

Writes Kuchar: "A hellish tour of domestic interiors peopled with artisans who help to construct their own destruction."

In Artists' Portraits: Antonio Muntadas, produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the artist discusses the theories and systems that inform his work: "We are surrounded by two landscapes: one environmental, and the other a media landscape we get from television." This portrait also features documentati ...

In As if Memories Could Deceive Me, a piano keyboard, symbol of German bourgeois tradition, is the metaphorical ground upon which Odenbach devises a dynamic associative discourse on the construction of personal and cultural identity. A haunted theater of collective and subjective memory is co ...

As Is: is a mythical interpretation of New York City, from the grand theater of its urban architecture to its diverse ethnic heritage. Velez reshapes and layers the urban landscape, isolating gestures and rituals — the hand signals of traders on the New York Stock Exchange, coffee taste ...

In As Seen On TV, "new vaudevillian" performance artist Bill Irwin is the subject of a wryly comic performance narrative. Framed by the storyline of a parodic theatrical audition, Irwin plays a hapless Everyman who inadvertently becomes trapped inside a television set. Displaying an antic phy ...

This work documents a ritualistic performance concerned with "Ansemia," or the inability to either express or understand gesture. Using symbolic materials — hot wax, a knife, a dead bird — as well as text, Export investigates human expression, and how communication can fail.

Asian Studs Nightmare examines the racial politics operating behind the hit U.S. television dating show "STUDS." Fulbeck narrates, recalling fictional nightmares of Asian male identity, over a multi-layered visual of footage from the actual "STUDS" show and examples of Asian male stereotypes. ...

Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have submitted. A continuous relay of projected slides comprises an iconography of Goddess symbols, taboo and sacred, as Schneemann reacts spontaneously to the questions.

This historical document, produced in 1969 for the CBS television program Camera Three, records a fascinating conversation with the influential avant-garde composer John Cage. In a wide-ranging dialogue, Cage discusses aspects of his work, his aesthetic philosophies, his working processes, an ...

This early performance tape is an example of what Acconci has termed his "quasi-ESP exercises," in which he explores mental concentration and intuition as a means of non-visual and non-verbal perception, interaction and communication. Blindfolded and wearing earplugs, Acconci and another man attempt ...

Here Cort merges video theater, early imaging technology and interactivity. In At Maple Tree Farm and Beyond, he transforms images during the recording process, manipulating staged events in a real-time, interactive electronic theater. Explorations in the Videospace features two broadcast recordings of video participation environments.

Attention, Focus, and Motion is one of Lucier's earliest black and white experiments with video technology and natural phenomena. Introducing themes that resonate throughout her work, Lucier investigates the intersection of landscape, motion and vision.

Produced for the Olympic Committee in 1984, Auto-Olympia merges document and fantasy in a cautionary tale of American car culture in overdrive. A Greek torch runner, transported to the media landscape of Los Angeles during the '84 Olympics, is confronted by contemporary urban life. Juxtaposin ...

Lord constructs a journey to discover the changes the computer (automobile of the twenty-first century) has introduced to San Francisco, and urban centers in general. Weaving together a series of interviews with fellow San Franciscans, he uncovers a suburbanized city as fashion statement, worn by those who lead the frictionless lives of Internet culture.

Produced in conjunction with a 1985 media arts event in Amsterdam entitled Talking Back to the Media, Azimut is a tightly structured work in which images of the body, inscribed with technology and communications, become a mesmerizing invocation. Accompanied by a hypnotic, repetitive so ...