TV as a Creative Medium: at Howard Wise
Arts Magazine, Sept. 1969, v. 44, no. 1, pp. 18, 20-22
A critique of a television art exhibition at Howard Wise Gallery. The author begins by recounting the development of television and the forces which brought it into the art world. He describes each piece in the exhibition in some detail, paying particular attention to the technological details and processes that went into their creation. He gives much of the article to the words of the artists, and does not write much as to the quality or meaning of the work. He suggests in the end that the exhibition is a preliminary step toward an art form that will eventually breed some kind of televisual utopia, an "intermeshing of our globe's electromagnetic exoskeleton, one day to unite all in one glorious terrestrial aura."
ITEM 1969.001 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Telediscretion – Serge Boutourline
A Commercial for Life – Wynn Chamberlain
A Commercial for Life – Serge Boutourline
Participation TV – Nam June Paik
TV Bra – Nam June Paik
Three Experiments Within the TV Tube – Earl Reiback
Electron Beam – Earl Reiback
Thrust – Earl Reiback
Everyman's Moebius Strip – Paul Ryan
Wipe Cycle – Frank Gillette
Wipe Cycle – Ira Schneider
TV Time Capsule – John Seery
Psychedelevision in Color – Eric Siegel
Archetron – Thomas Tadlock
Black Spiral – Aldo Tambellini
AC/TV (Audio-Controlled TV) – Joe Weintraub