Early Video Art | Video Data Bank

Early Video Art is a collection of titles that are central to an understanding of the historical development of video art. This collection includes, but is not limited to, many titles from the original Castelli-Sonnabend collection, the first and most prominent collection of video art assembled in the United States. All of the work in this collection was produced between 1968 and 1980. These works represent important examples of the first experiments in video art, and include conceptual and feminist performances recorded on video, experiments with the video signal, and "guerilla" documentaries representing a counter-cultural view of the historical events of the 1960s and 70s. Many of these tapes represent a desire for a radically redefined television experience that is centered on the innovative, the personal, the political and the non-commercial.

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Takahiko iimura

Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity)

1995 | 00:28:15

Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity)

This compilation is produced with "myself" as the sole object, as well as the material of the performance (except two videos with Akiko iimura). The videos are not just documents of the…

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Blue

1976 | 00:05:07

Blue

"An electronic synthetic color video, based on a memory of Larry Gottheim's film Blues. Natural and electronic real time events, new American electronic cinema.

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1-87

1976 | 00:04:35

1-87

"Inspired by Ralph Hocking's fish biting video. Eighty-seven stones thrown, volumes shifting of water sound, a real time performance event.

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100 Sec. Lumination

1976 | 00:01:51

100 Sec. Lumination

"My first digital recording and my first and only recording with Don McArthur's "Spatial and Intensity Digitizer". The digitizer was not working properly. I had no idea.

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Cup Mix (2 Channels)

1977 | 00:10:58

Cup Mix (2 Channels)

"A cup and saucer, pouring and drinking coffee, a duration ritual of contemplation and invigoration, doubled (tape copied), mixed, keyed + synthetic color, normal play and rewinding, sync events,…

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Front Hand Back Hand

1977 | 00:02:57

Front Hand Back Hand

"Actions, states, one B+W video camera, the Paik Abe Colorizer, a video switcher. The two states, a b a b, I put my hand in the camera frame and saw a colored hand shifting.

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Keying Distinctions

1978 | 00:03:23

Keying Distinctions

"Bricks, white noise, video. Free floating sync, altered, drifiting camera: video image and time.

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Vibratory Sweep

1978 | 00:02:44

Vibratory Sweep

"A hand made raster deflection unit was used, inspired by Nam June Paik's video synthesizer system. I also used a TV repair person's test signal grid, early digital.

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Ring Modulation

1978 | 00:08:14

Ring Modulation

"Image states / sound states.

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Flute With Shift

1979 | 00:05:00

Flute With Shift

"Newly hand-built digital video A to D and D to A with ALU bit flipping. Controlled by an ELF II computer.

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Light Bulb with circular update (camera zoom + pan + variable clock)

1981 | 00:03:56

Light Bulb with circular update (camera zoom + pan + variable clock)

"Real time digital buffer recording, light bulb, panning camera motor and turntable. Light Bulb, the title says it almost all. Real time recording events.

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Rectangular Update

1981 | 00:03:12

Rectangular Update

"I was looking at postcards run through the David Jones digital video frame buffer. The buffer had two inputs, a video image of white noise and a video image of holding a post card, blank…