The Early Video Project
Articles We intend to continually publish articles relating to early video topics. These can refer to any aspect of Early Video studies: history, archiving, critical writing, personal experiences. Articles will be selected on the basis of relevance to the topic, quality of writing, scholarly commitment, entertainment, etc. Student papers on early video topics are welcome, subject to these qualifications.
We cannot pay for submissions. All published submissions remain the property of the writer. This site will be a good place for new writing on early video and, owing to the quality of our viewers, will be a friendly place for writers to publish excerpts from works on which they want comment.
Articles will not "go out of print." New articles are put at the top of the list, but all articles will be listed subject to space requirements.
Submissions should be sent by attachment. We like MS Word. Submit to davidsong@home.com
Current Articles The Paik/Abe Synthesizer , by George Fifield
George Fifield (george@bostoncyberarts.org) is the Curator Of Media Arts at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln Massachusetts. In addition, he is Director of Boston Cyberarts, Inc. a non-profit arts organization which is organizing the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Boston Cyberarts is at www.bostoncyberarts.org.McLuhan and Recent Art History, by Frank Gillette.
A discussion of the parallel impact of Freud on Surrealist art and McLuhan on 1960s art. Gillette was a founder of Raindance and a pathfinder in the area of video installations.Video Journey Through Utopia, by Paul Ryan.
An essay on the importance of the utopian vision in early video. Includes a discussion of Pierre Levy's book Collective Intelligence and a brief history of Ryan's personal experiences in the early 70s relating to the topic. Ryan was a founder of Raindance and a seminal video thinker. He is now a professor at The New School.Videospace/Interface, by Jud Yalkut.
A discussion and survey on the development of video installations. Yalkut was an important avant-garde filmmaker and critic in New York in the 70s. He now lives and works in Dayton, Ohio.
Interviews Our interview project is ongoing. All the interviewees were active in the video world of the late sixties and early seventies. We have a projected list of over 60 interviews scheduled over the next year. As we transcribe them, we will publish them on this site. Our interviews are conversational in tone, wide-ranging, edited only for personal matters and rancor. We sometimes get a little off topic, but we usually return to the subject at hand. We hope, both the interviewees and myself, that the informality of our dialogues will reveal something of language and issues and mindset of the time period discussed.
John Reilly Interview: Part 1.
John Reilly was, with Rudi Stern and Ira Schneider, a founder of Global Village, a video collective and video school. Schneider left to join Raindance in December of 1969.
Rudi Stern Interview: Parts 1 & 2.
Rudi Stern came to video through light shows. With Jackie Cassen he operated the Theater of Light, which gave many peformances in New York and around the country. He joined Global Village in 1969 and left in 1972.
Artist Les Levine began with video in 1964, and discusses early video, his views on video art, television and culture.
Peter Bradley Interview: Part 1.
Peter Bradley was head of Film, TV-Media, and Literature Department of the New York State Council on the Arts when it began its significant support of early video.
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