Gary Hill

EAI is pleased to announce its first-ever Benefit Art Auction, to be held on Thursday, April 19. This special event will raise essential funding towards our mission of preserving and providing access to media art’s rich legacies, while fostering powerful new voices.

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The special selection of media artworks for the public spaces of the Sagamore Hotel was drawn from EAI's extensive archive. The media artworks on display in the hotel presented formal, conceptual, or perceptual transformations of natural landscapes and environments. In works that range from the playful to the socially resonant, the artists investigate diverse notions of landscape, from transmutations of nature, the body, and everyday objects to the "media landscape" of today's televisual and digital cultures. Moving between abstraction and representation, the organic and the electronic, these works—which span five decades—also explore the materiality and meanings of video and digital media.

Sound Stage was a special Saturday afternoon screening program featuring artists' videos that are driven by music performance. Sound Stage was presented as part of Chelsea Sound: A Not-For-Profit Festival of Artists in Sound, organized jointly by Printed Matter Inc., Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, Electronic Arts Intermix and Family Business. Taking place in Chelsea's Gallery District on Saturday, October 27th, the collaboratively produced festival included a series of performances, sound installations, and video screenings throughout the day across four venues.

Featuring works from the last four decades by a diverse group of artists, Sound Stage presented a program of videos that foreground musical performance. The screening embraced artists' documentation of music performances, artists' performances that incorporate live music, and works created for the camera and screen in which musicians take center stage.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special project for Times Square. In partnership with the Times Square Alliance and MTV, EAI brought artists' visions to the MTV 44½ LED Screen. Marking EAI's 40 years of support for moving image art, EAI in Times Square celebrated video art's rich history of creative intervention in one of the world's most dynamic media landscapes.

From April 13 to 19, EAI highlighted the remarkable creative media interventions of artists on a spectacular scale. Works by Vito Acconci, Dan Asher, Phyllis Baldino, Dara Birnbaum, Gary Hill, Shigeko Kubota, Takeshi Murata, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Stuart Sherman and William Wegman were seen daily on MTV 44½'s large-format LED screen.

EAI celebrated the art of short-form video and film with a summer screening of works that clock in at two minutes or less. Between Yoko Ono's fifteen second Eye Blink (1966) and Leslie Thornton's two minute Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 6 (2006), the forty-five works in this forty-five minute screening demonstrated why a concise statement is so powerful. Ranging from analog video abstraction to quick visual comedy, conceptual exercises to formal experiments with duration, commissioned public service announcements to critiques of the quintessential short-form structure, the TV commercial, the works in this screening demonstrated the enormous possibilities that artists have found in less than one hundred and twenty seconds.

The screening included works by Dan Asher, Beth B, Phyllis Baldino, Michael Bell-Smith, Dara Birnbaum, Cheryl Donegan, VALIE EXPORT, Forcefield, Matthew Geller, Gran Fury, Gary Hill, Ken Jacobs, Tom Kalin, Kalup Linzy, George Maciunas, Charlotte Moorman, Shana Moulton, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Paul Sharits, Stuart Sherman, Shelly Silver, Michael Smith, Leslie Thornton, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.

EAI hosted a special launch event celebrating the publication of An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works and Writings, a new monograph devoted to the works of artist Gary Hill. At EAI, Hill appeared in conversation with the book's authors, George Quasha and Charles Stein, poets, writers and artists who have worked interactively and performed with Hill for over three decades. Hill discussed and screened selections from his early single-channel videos, tracing the development of his distinctive approach to language, sound and the moving image. Written in close connection with the artist and featuring a foreward by Lynne Cooke, An Art of Limina is the most comprehensive and in-depth treatment of Hill's work to date, presenting extensive information on 104 of his works from the 1970s through the present, as well as seminal writings by the artist.

The third in free103point9's Tune(In))) series, Tune(In))) Santa Fe featured sound and video artists transmitting works directly into four separate FM frequencies. This sound installation/event was designed for a virtually silent environment in which listeners heard live performances through individual radio headsets. Video Tune(In))), presented in collaboration with EAI, featured a selection of single-channel video works that addressed transmission themes. The program included works by Klaus vom Bruch, Gary Hill, Kristin Lucas, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Jud Yalkut.

Co-presented by The Kitchen and transmission arts organization free103point9, in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Tune(In))) The Kitchen featured a silent environment in which listeners heard live performances through radio headphones. The event included over forty artists and was a part of the city-wide festival, New Sound, New York. The video program, Video Tune(In))), selected from the EAI Collection, contained works by Klaus vom Bruch, Gary Hill, Kristin Lucas, Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, and Steina and Woody Vasulka.

Video Tune(In))) was presented by EAI on the occasion of free103point9's Tune(In))) which featured audio from over 60 artists routed into six transmitters. Attendees accessed the performances with radio headphones included with admission. Video Tune(In))) included works by Klaus vom Bruch, Gary Hill, Kristin Lucas, Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, and Steina and Woody Vasulka.

As the keystone of EAI's 30th anniversary events, Museum of Modern Art presented First Decade: Video from the EAI Archives, a major retrospective that looked at the early days of video through EAI's historical collection. Featuring 60 works, the twelve-part program explored themes and issues ranging from performance and the body; narrative; cultural essays; activism, and poetics.

The Winter 2001 edition of this ongoing screening series at Dia's rooftop Video Salon and Café featured works by Peggy Ahwesh, Tony Cokes, Cheryl Donegan, Gary Hill, Mike Kelley, and Rita Myers.

Mediated Presence: Three Decades of Artists' Video from Electronic Arts Intermix is a three-part survey, spanning the years 1967 to 1997, that explores the rich and diverse modes by which artists use video to investigate self. Tracing how artists have articulated a mediated relationship with the viewer and technology, this program re-visits notions of performance and gesture within the framework of three decades of artists' video, and provides a historical context for recent works.