A renowned photographer and conceptual humorist, William Wegman has created an enduring collection of videoworks filled with droll monologues, surreal vignettes, and anecdotal antics. Wegman's early works revolve around quirky yarns captured through austere means-minimal props, the artist's body, and a stark setting. The humor, delivered in the lushest of deadpans, finds its perfect foil in his ever-obedient weimaraner Man Ray, willing to fetch whatever theoretical bones are tossed his way. Man Ray, however, does more than play "straight dog" to Wegman's conceptual gags. Through these serio-comic scenarios, he and Fay Ray acquire human qualities that force an ironic reconsideration of meaning and appearance. For this program, we offer a whirlwind tour through Wegman's Greatest Hits 1971-1978 (21 mins), including Stomach Song, Deodorant, Spelling Lesson, and Drinking Milk; Dog Baseball (1986, 3:30 mins), an expanded canine frolic; The World of Photography (1986, 24:35 mins, PFA Collection), a satiric commentary about image-making made with performance artist Michael Smith; and the exciting premiere of an as yet untitled work (1998, c. 25 mins) that promises to comically mount "selected works twenty years later."-Steve Seid