Critical Writing Index

TV as a Creative Medium: at Howard Wise

by Jud Yalkut

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

TelediscretionSerge Boutourline

A Commercial for LifeWynn Chamberlain

A Commercial for LifeSerge Boutourline

Participation TVNam June Paik

TV BraNam June Paik

Three Experiments Within the TV TubeEarl Reiback

Electron BeamEarl Reiback

ThrustEarl Reiback

Everyman's Moebius StripPaul Ryan

Wipe CycleFrank Gillette

Wipe CycleIra Schneider

TV Time CapsuleJohn Seery

Psychedelevision in ColorEric Siegel

ArchetronThomas Tadlock

Black SpiralAldo Tambellini

AC/TV (Audio-Controlled TV)Joe Weintraub