in 2003 i compiled a video program, called old skool revolutionaries, that converses with these early moments of Video Art as a genre + the establishment of the Video department @ the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. the Video Area was the first department in the United States to offer a BA + MFA degree in Video Art. the people involved in the School’s community engaged with, analyzed, reflected on, built + disassembled the New Media of their time, playfully radicalizing + seriously institutionalizing toolsets, artworks + social systems. Old Skool Revolutionaries samples hystorical documents, lectures, discussions, individual artworks, collaborative events + performances as recorded in the archives of the Film Video and New Media department. Old Skool Revolutionaries literally transcodes, conceptually recalls + according to Fred Camper “captures the experimental spirit of the time by using contemporary scenes of the artists explaining their theories that have been altered with Sandin's "image processor," an analog device for manipulating video”. Old Skool Revolutionaries revisits moments from recordings of + projects by mini artists, academics + students, including Woody + Steina Vasulka, Jane Veeder, Gene Youngblood, Dan Sandin + the late Phil Morton.
DETAILS:
title: old skool revolutionaries
date: 2003
dvr: jonCates
geoloc: CHI IL .US
runtime: 69 mins
format: digital video
samples:
title: "Program #7"
dvr: Jane Veeder + Phil Morton
date: 1978
title: "Gene Youngblood - Discussion from 1977 with Students"
dvr: Gene Youngblood
date: 1977
title: "Woody and Steina Vasulka Lecture/Discussion with Students Spring 1977"
dvr: Steina and Woody Vasulka
date: 1977
title: "Barbara Buckner interviewed by Christine Tamblyn"
dvr: Barbara Buckner
date: unknown
title: "5 Minute Romp Through the I.P."
dvr: Dan Sandin
date: 1973
title: "SAIC Memo"
dvr: Phil Morton
date: 1981
title: "Surveillance- AT HOME"
dvr: Nancy Bechtol + Jessie Affelder
date: 1982
title: "Image Connections"
dvr: Ben Kerns
date: 1982
title: "Directed Viewing/Blindfolded"
dvr: Mark Resch
date: 1982
title: "Guerrilla Video"
dvr: Michael Markowski
date: 1982in 2003 i compiled a video program, called old skool revolutionaries, that converses with these early moments of Video Art as a genre + the ...all »in 2003 i compiled a video program, called old skool revolutionaries, that converses with these early moments of Video Art as a genre + the establishment of the Video department @ the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. the Video Area was the first department in the United States to offer a BA + MFA degree in Video Art. the people involved in the School’s community engaged with, analyzed, reflected on, built + disassembled the New Media of their time, playfully radicalizing + seriously institutionalizing toolsets, artworks + social systems. Old Skool Revolutionaries samples hystorical documents, lectures, discussions, individual artworks, collaborative events + performances as recorded in the archives of the Film Video and New Media department. Old Skool Revolutionaries literally transcodes, conceptually recalls + according to Fred Camper “captures the experimental spirit of the time by using contemporary scenes of the artists explaining their theories that have been altered with Sandin's "image processor," an analog device for manipulating video”. Old Skool Revolutionaries revisits moments from recordings of + projects by mini artists, academics + students, including Woody + Steina Vasulka, Jane Veeder, Gene Youngblood, Dan Sandin + the late Phil Morton.
DETAILS:
title: old skool revolutionaries
date: 2003
dvr: jonCates
geoloc: CHI IL .US
runtime: 69 mins
format: digital video
samples:
title: "Program #7"
dvr: Jane Veeder + Phil Morton
date: 1978
title: "Gene Youngblood - Discussion from 1977 with Students"
dvr: Gene Youngblood
date: 1977
title: "Woody and Steina Vasulka Lecture/Discussion with Students Spring 1977"
dvr: Steina and Woody Vasulka
date: 1977
title: "Barbara Buckner interviewed by Christine Tamblyn"
dvr: Barbara Buckner
date: unknown
title: "5 Minute Romp Through the I.P."
dvr: Dan Sandin
date: 1973
title: "SAIC Memo"
dvr: Phil Morton
date: 1981
title: "Surveillance- AT HOME"
dvr: Nancy Bechtol + Jessie Affelder
date: 1982
title: "Image Connections"
dvr: Ben Kerns
date: 1982
title: "Directed Viewing/Blindfolded"
dvr: Mark Resch
date: 1982
title: "Guerrilla Video"
dvr: Michael Markowski
date: 1982«
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