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Phil Morton

Born 1945 -
Died 2003

Phil Morton (1945-2003) received degrees in art education and fine arts from Penn State and Purdue. He began teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969. Within a year, he had established the first video department in the country to offer both BA and MFA degrees in video production. In subsequent years Morton continued to expand the media resources and educational opportunities at the School of the Art Institute, establishing the Video Data Bank as a collection of videotaped presentations and interviews with artists in 1972.

In collaboration with Dan Sandin, Morton distributed plans for the Image Processor (IP), a modular video synthesizer based on the Moog audio synthesizer. In 1974, he established "P-Pi's" or the Pied Piper Interactioning System, a cable TV station in South Haven, Michigan. He was the sole proprietor of his own independent video production company, Greater Yellowstone News, which published, among other things, video news tapes of the wildlife and people of the Greater Yellowstone area, many of which were shown on Tom Weinberg's PBS program The '90s.

Many of the titles listed here are also part of the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive (PMMRA), which was established in 2007 by artist and scholar jonCates to coordinate and freely distribute Morton’s Media Art work and associated research under Morton’s COPY-IT-RIGHT license. In 2023, jonCates donated the PMMRA to Video Data Bank. In honor of Morton's COPY-IT-RIGHT philosophy, all titles on VDB's website are available to watch for free. Visit a title’s artwork page to view. For more information and to access the full list of available titles related to PMMRA, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive Collection page. 

The titles listed on this page are videos produced by Morton. To view the list of titles only created and collected by Morton's students and collaborators, visit the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive artist page.


Available Titles by Phil Morton

Title Year Runtime Collection
Aura of IEVE 1975 00:18:39 Early Video Art, Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Class Assignment 1972 00:20:15 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Crinkle 1974 00:09:51 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Digiscan to St. Olaf College 1972 00:32:21 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
General Motors (Excerpt) 1976 01:00:00 Single Titles
Happy New Year 1973 1973 01:00:14 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
IEVE Aura 1975 01:02:38 Early Video Art, Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Inconsecration 1974 01:01:32 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Jam #1 1974 00:57:58 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Mom and Dad 1972 00:32:44 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Phil on Special Effects 1972 00:16:50 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Philip Glass Lecture 1974 04:00:11 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Practice Tape 1972 00:29:19 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Ram Dass Lecture 1975 03:04:41 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Rescanning of IEVE 1976 00:22:43 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
To Deborah, Love Vidiots 1975 00:27:17 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
To Start / From Finish 1973 00:30:45 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
To Videopolis 1972 00:32:59 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Tom's Tattoo 1974 01:02:52 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Venn's Apron 1973 01:02:45 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
W3 Form 1976 00:27:39 Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles

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