Plus Fight, excerpts from Water and The Paul Swan Film (Special Admission: $7.00, general; $5.50, U.C. Berkeley students and UAM/PFA members). John Hanhardt is Curator, Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art Andy Warhol was the total artist. His paintings, prints and films were inseparably linked to his manufactured persona as celebrity. Within Warhol's realm, the art and the artist were expressions of the same impulse toward popular representation. The video medium, then, seemed like an obvious choice for an artist wanting to penetrate mass culture. Warhol first dabbled with the medium in 1965, but it wasn't until 1970 that he began voraciously recording the throng of luminaries that lit up the Factory: David Bowie, Truman Capote, Divine, Dennis Hopper, Paloma Picasso, Lou Reed, Viva, et al. During this same period, Warhol, with collaborator Vincent Fremont, was also developing script ideas for television. This effort included Vivian's Girls and Fight, two reductive soap operas. By the early 1980s, Andy Warhol's T.V. emerged, a televisual transcription of Interview magazine. Eventually, he infiltrated MTV with Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes, "Saturday Night Live," and a number of rock videos and national ad spots. Appearing as the 1000th celebrity on "Love Boat," Warhol finally reached his apotheosis, the famous artist in the role of famous artist. Throughout his association with video and television, Warhol expanded his sphere of influence beyond the confines of high art. -Steve Seid Following the lecture, Fight screens in its entirety. This will be accompanied by excerpts from a recently rediscovered tape, Water, made in 1971 for Yoko Ono-a one-of-a-kind work from the UAM Collection. An excerpt from The Paul Swan Film, broadcast in 1969 as part of San Francisco's Dilexi Series (see October 17), illustrates another rare Warhol foray into television.