The EAI Collection: Works

Published Items

Low Level All-Stars

Cory Arcangel, Radical Software Group (RSG)

2003, 21:03 min, color, sound, DVD

Artist collectives Beige and Radical Software Group have joined forces to release this DVD, which collects examples of the nearly-forgotten genre of hacked video game intro-screens of the 1980s. In this quasi-anthropological context, the work amounts to a kind of electronic folk art: beautiful for its obsolete formal properties, as well as its testament to a lost subculture.

 

Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image

The New Museum and Bick Productions, co-producers

2004, 11 DVDs

This anthology is a boxed set of eleven DVDs featuring newly-commissioned works by leading artists who are among the most important figures working in film, video, and digital imagery today: Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala.

 

The Workshop of the Film Form (1970-1977)

Kazimierz Bendkowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Pawel Kwiek, Józef Robakowski, and Ryszard Wasko 

1970-74, 60 min, color and b&w, sound, DVD

Founded by graduates of Lódz Film School in 1970, the Workshop of the Film Form helped define the moving image avant-garde in Poland in the 1970s. The Workshop was a pioneering and highly influential collective that promoted analytical experimentation in all modes of their multidisciplinary practices. Newly available, this DVD features seminal film works by key members of the Workshop, including Kazimierz Bendkowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Pawel Kwiek, Józef Robakowski, and Ryszard Wasko.

 

Visions of Warhol

Willard Maas; Jonas Mekas; Marie Menken

1963-1990, 69 min, color and b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video

Visions of Warhol presents scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by three pioneer avant-garde filmmakers and close friends of the artist. In this extraordinary compilation, Jonas Mekas creates an intimate chronicle of Warhol's life and social milieu over three decades; Willard Maas documents Warhol's seminal exhibition of silver balloons at Castelli Gallery; and Marie Menken records the artist in the process of creating some of his most famous works.

 

Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art

CTG, Kohei Ando, Takahiko Iimura, Keigo Yamamoto, Toshio Matsumoto, Video Earth Tokyo, Mako Idemitsu, Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Norio Imai, Hakudo Kobayashi, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Saburo Muraoka, Keiji Uematsu, Morihiro Wada

2010, 162 min, color and b&w, sound, DVD, Japanese with English subtitles

Vital Signals is a survey of the vibrant, interdisciplinary video art scene in Japan in the 1960s and '70s. Produced by EAI, the DVD anthology features sixteen works by fifteen Japanese artists, among them key figures such as Takahiko Iimura, Mako Idemitsu and Toshio Matsumoto. The DVD is accompanied by a 100-page, bilingual (English and Japanese) illustrated catalogue publication. Essays by Barbara London, Glenn Phillips, and Hirofumi Sakamoto draw out the unique art historical and cultural contexts of early Japanese video art, and its relation to film and other visual art forms. The Vital Signals DVD is organized in three parts: The Language of Technology, Open Television, and Body Acts. In technical experiments, activist statements, and conceptual performances, Japanese artists of the 1960s and '70s transformed the intangible—time, gesture, the electronic signal—into rich art-making material. The Vital Signals DVD anthology and catalogue publication illuminate this fertile period of creative engagement in Japan.

 

Vito Acconci: Five Audio Works

Vito Acconci

1969-1977, sound, Audio CD

This boxed set features five of Acconci's seminal audio works from the 1960s and '70s. These early conceptual audio works, on five CDs, were restored by EAI. This set includes Running Tape, The American Gift, Under-History Lessons, Ten Packed Minutes, and The Gangster Sister from Chicago Visits New York (A Family Piece).