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This is the First Television Set in the World: The “Baird Televisor”, 1928 . An early experimental and demonstration “Baird-type” television receiver with 30 lines, and Nipkow disc which turned with a speed of 750 rpm producing 12 1/2 pictures per second. The motor still runs on a standard 18-volt battery. A spectacular demonstration model of the birth of television!.
1939: RCA Transparent TRK-12 Television at the World's Fair
Many people had their first look at television at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. RCA had a number of TRK-12 televisions on display in their impressive exhibit hall that was shaped like a Vacuum Tube. The centerpiece was the Phantom TRK-12 shown above, whose cabinet was made of transparent Lucite. Having the transparent casing convinced skeptics that TV really worked and wasn't all smoke-and-mirrors. The TRK-12 had the CRT facing straight up, and the screen was watched by looking into a mirror.
The TK-40 and its modified successor, the TK-41, were the first television cameras able to broadcast live color images. Beginning with the "Colgate Comedy Hour" on 11/22/53 these camera were in wide use at TV network and affiliate studios, as well as independent TV production facilities through the 1960's.
Nancy Reagan Waves To Ronald At 1984 Republican Convention
Nancy Reagan standing at podium during 1984 Republican National convention waving to image of husband Ron seen on a video screen from his hotel suite in Dallas Texas, 1984. (Photo by John Ficara/Woodfin Camp/Woodfin Camp/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Wolf Vostell
Dé-coll/ages
From 1958 on…Sculpture with TV
Wolf Vostell was the first artist in art history to integrate a television set into a work of art. This installation was created in 1958 under the title Cycle Black Room/Deutscher Ausblick ("German view") is now part of the collection of the art museum Berlinische Galerie in Berlin. Early works with television sets are Transmigracion I-III from 1958 and Elektronischer De-coll/age Happening Raum[3], (E.D.H.R), ("Electronic De-coll/age Happening Room"), an Installation, from 1968.
Wolf Vostell
9 No – Dé-coll/ages
1963 - 67Film/video performance
Vostell's large-scale happening 9 Nein Décollagen (9 No – Dé-coll/ages) took place on 14 September 1963 in nine different locations in Wuppertal, and was organized by the Galerie Parnass. The audience was ferried by bus from location to location, including a cinema that screened Sun in Your Head while people lay on the floor. The film transfers to the moving image Vostell’s principle of ‘Décollage’. While up to then Vostell had altered TV pictures as they were being broadcast, he was now able to compose the temporal sequence. Since no video equipment was available in 1963, Vostell instructed camera-man Edo Jansen to film distorted TV images off the TV screen. The film was re-edited and copied to video in 1967.
Nam June Paik
Magnet TV
1965Magnet with TV and broadcast program
Nam June Paik
TV Buddha
1974closed circuit video installation with bronze sculpture
Nam June Paik
Video Flag
1984-96video installation
Nam June Paik
Electronic Superhighway
1995video installation
Nam June Paik
video still from Global Groove
1973color videotape, sound30 minutes
Dan Sandin
Sandin Analogue Image Processor
1971-1973Analog computer video synthesizer
EVLhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qh6jRzjmcY&feature=related (1973)
http://www.youtube.com/evltube (2011)
Moog Synthesizer (Demo):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLQy4jQmrek&feature=topics
Moog Historyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usl_TvIFtG0
Joan JonasVertical Roll
1972video
"In a startling collusion of form and content, Jonas constructs a theater of female identity by deconstructing representations of the female body and the technology of video. Using an interrupted electronic signal -- or "vertical roll" -- as a dynamic formal device, she dislocates space, re-framing and fracturing the image."
Chris BurdenLate Night Advertisements (Through the Night Softly)
Early 70sVideo on Broadcast Television
Bruce Nauman
Live-Taped Video Corridor
1970video installation
Dan Graham
Time Delay Room
1974video camera, video taper, video monitors, mirror
The time-lag of eight seconds is the outer limit of the neurophysiological short-term memory that forms an immediate part of our present perception and affects this «from within». If you see your behavior eight seconds ago presented on a video monitor «from outside» you will probably therefore not recognize the distance in time but tend to identify your current perception and current behavior with the state eight seconds earlier. Since this leads to inconsistent impressions which you then respond to, you get caught up in a feedback loop. You feel trapped in a state of observation, in which your self-observation is subject to some outside visible control. In this manner, you as the viewer experience yourself as part of a social group of observed observers [instead of, as in the traditional view of art, standing arrested in individual contemplation before an auratic object].
Dan Graham
Body Press
1972film
Dan Graham«Body Press»Film installation of two synchronized silent 16mm-film projections, color, 8'.
Two filmmakers stand within a surrounding and completely mirrorized cylinder, body trunk stationary, hands holding and pressing a camera's back-end flush to, while slowly rotating it about, the surface cylin-der of their individual bodies. One rotation circumscribes the body's contour, spiralling slightly upward with the next turn. With successive rotations, the body surface areas are completely covered as a template by the back of the camera(s) until eye-level (view through camera's eyes) is reached; then a reverse mapping downward begins until the original starting point is reached. The rotations are at a correlated speed; when each camera is rotated to each body's rear it is then facing and film-ing the other where they are exchanged so the camera's ‹identity› ‹changes hands› and each performer is handling a new camera. The cameras are of different size and mass. In the process, the performers are to concentrate on the coexistent, simultaneous identity of both camera's describing them and their body. (The camera may/or may not be read as an extension of the body's identity.) Optically, the two cameras film the Image reflected on the mirror which is the same surface as the box (and lens) of the cam-era's five visible sides, the body of the performer, and (possibly) his eyes on the mirror (In projection what is seen by the spectator).The camera's angle of orientation/view of the area of the mirror's reflective image is determined by the placement of the cam-era on the body contour at a given moment. (The camera might be pressed against the ehest but such an upward angle shows head and eyes). To the spectator the camera's optical vantage is the skin. (An exception is when the performer's eyes are also seen reflected or the cameras are seen filming the other). The performer's musculature is 'seen' pressing into the surface of the body (pulling inside out). At the same time, kinesthetically, the handling of the camera can be 'felt', by the spectator, as surfacetension, as the hidden side of the camera presses and slides against the skin it cov-ers at a particular moment. The films are projected at the same time on two loop projectors, very large size on two opposite, but very close, room walls. A member of the audience (man or woman) might identify with one image or the other from the same camera or can identify with one body or the other, shifting their view each time to face the other screen when the cameras are exchanged.
William Wegman
Early Work (excerpts): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaeydy_william-wegman-early-videos2_creation#
1970video recorded on Sony CV 1/2” open reel to reel
Dara BirnbaumTechnology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
1978video
Gary Hill
Wall Piece (2000) http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/223
Crux (1983 – 87) http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/crux/
Postings on Crux: http://nonsenselab.tumblr.com/post/9960254331/gary-hill-crux-1983-1987-video-installation
Clip with artist voice over on “Crux” like piece: http://www.madisonartshop.com/lib/madisonartshop/33230.wmv
SFMOMA compilation: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/11#
Adrian Piper
Cornered
1988video monitor, table, birth certificates
Peter Fischli + David Weiss
The Way Things Go (Der Lauf Der Dinge)
1987video29 minutes, 40 seconds
Bill Viola
Heaven and Earth1992Video and two facing cathode ray tubes
The boundary between life and death is a strong theme that runs through some of his work, notably Heaven and Earth (1992). A white column rises from the floor to the ceiling, divided in the middle by two television screens that face each other. The lower screen shows a close-up image of a new-born baby, only days old while the upper screen shows a close-up image of an old woman, hospitalized and in the last week of her life. The glass screens of the television monitors allow both of the images to be reflected in the other: birth and death infuse each other. The monitors are exposed cathode ray tubes, attached to the columns only by four thin metal bars. This exposure of the fragile technology comes across as a strong metaphor for the fragility of human body and was a deliberate conceptual link that Viola aimed to present.
--Ashley Rawlings (2006)
Bill Viola
Nantes Triptych
1992video installation
Bill Viola
Ocean without a Shore
2007
Church of San Gallo, Venicecolor high-definition video triptych, two 65 in. plasma screens, one 103 in. screen mounted vertically, six loudspeakers (three pairs stereo sound)
Bill Viola
Ocean without a Shore
2007
Church of San Gallo, Venicecolor high-definition video triptych, two 65 in. plasma screens, one 103 in. screen mounted vertically, six loudspeakers (three pairs stereo sound)
Tony Oursler
Projected Video Projects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMZHMVRXsbE&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMZHMVRXsbE&feature=related
Sadie Benning
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sadie-benning?before=1318122200
http://www.haussite.net/haus.0/SCRIPT/txt2001/01/russel.HTML
Shirin Neshat
Still Photos, Video, and Interview http://heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.4.FOTOS.ShirinNeshat.htm
Video excerpt from Zarim:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wNz9jK82U0
Interview on Charlie Rose (fast forward to 2nd interview)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em1pwqlvMCs (August 25, 2007)
Christian Marclay
Video Quartet
2002Video installation
Xavier Cha
Video installation from Body mounted cameras (2011)http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/XavierChahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1T05S9dKVw
Kade Twist
For You Shall Pass Through the Water of Another
20103 Channel Video installation
