 Howard
Wise was an innovative art dealer and a visionary supporter of video
as an art form. His seminal embrace and fostering of video artists
and projects contributed to contemporary art history. From 1960 to
1970, the Howard Wise Gallery on 57th Street in New York was a locus
for kinetic art and multimedia works that explored the nexus of art
and technology. The gallery featured several groundbreaking exhibitions,
including On the Move (1964), Lights in Orbit (1967),
and the landmark 1969 TV as a Creative Medium. The first
exhibition dedicated to video (or television) in the United States,
TV as a Creative Medium included artists such as Nam
June Paik, Charlotte
Moorman, and Aldo Tambellini. In addition to defining an emerging
artistic movement, this influential exhibition revealed the need for
new paradigms to support artists working in video. In 1970 Wise closed
the gallery to lay the groundwork for Electronic
Arts Intermix, which he founded the following year to foster creative
pursuits in the nascent video underground. |
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