Rose Art Museum: Vision & Television

This title documents events at the opening of the 1970 exhibition Vision and Televison.  Held at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts from January 21 - February 22, the exhibition is widely regarded as the first museum exhibition of artist's video.

This two disc title contains the following video documentation:

• Nam June Paik & Charlotte Moorman - TV Bra for Living Sculpture (39:43)

• Panel Discusson with Artists (19:51)

A group of artists are filmed as they talk about the intersections between art and technology, difference in the personal and social implications of technological development. One participant discusses how at that time technological art meant manipulating hardware, while in the future more ethereal experiences will be created by manipulating technological software. Anticipating the complete technological integration of today’s society, the man describes a more effective experience being the affiliation of one’s self with the technological process in general as software rather than a dedication to any one particular technological output as hardware. David Cort also falls in a pool.

Exhibition organized by Russell Connor. Works by Frank Gillette (Amps, Volts and Watts), Ted Kraynik (Video Luminar #4) , Les Levine (The Dealer), Eugene Mattingly (Fred Helix), Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman,(TV Bra for Living Sculpture), Nam June Paik (The 9/23 Experiment, Still Life and Embryo for Wall to Wall TV), John Reilly and Rudi Stern (Innertube), Paul Ryan (Yes/No and Ego Me Absolvo), Ira Schneider (Random Interlace), Eric Siegel (Body, Mind and Video)., Aldo Tambellini (Some More Beginnings, Black Spiral and Black TV)), Jud Yalkut (Electronic Moon No. 2), USCO/Intermedia (Wave Forms and Tube Stills), Videofreex (Freex Out) and Joe Weintraub (AC/TV)

— Experimental TV Center