SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd – 7:30 PM
Co-presented with Visual Studies Workshop
“This both at once, this being caught inside the illusion and this looking on nonetheless from without…”
—Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious
Over a career spanning more than four decades, video artist Peer Bode has extensively investigated electronic media events, active perception systems, and culture. He made his earliest works at the Experimental Television Center in collaboration with engineer David Jones, whose “Jones Frame Buffer” became a signature processor within his oeuvre.
This event will feature a selection of Bode’s “Process Tapes,” made at the ETC during 1977-83. Video switchers, test signals, and synthetic colors run amok. Video works that have been exhibited and are currently in distribution will be exhibited alongside recently digitized videotapes from the artist’s archive that have never been shown publicly. Moderated by Tara Nelson (curator at the Visual Studies Workshop, where Bode’s tapes have been preserved), this event will be presented as a live dialogue between the artist, his archive, and the audience.
Works include:
Front Hand Back Hand (1977)
Cup Mix (2 Channels) (1977)
Camel with Window Memory (1983)
Vibratory Sweep (1978)
Video Locomotion (1978)
Music on Triggering Surfaces (1978)