by Dougherty, Cecilia
TitleTetragrammaton
Item typeVHS
Author(s)Dougherty, Cecilia
LanguageEnglish
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  • "In 1973, sculptor Frank Gillette made a 23-minute videotape called Tetragrammaton at a beach near New York. It is one element of a six-part video installation called Six Matrices, from 1971 - 73. Gilette's camera focuses on ripples in the sand, driftwood, shells, and feathers and then swings out wildly to a long shot of the sea and the horizon. At one point, Gillette swings the camera 360- degrees, and at other points he stays glued to one small object in the sand, defining with his camerawork the body of the artist as well as his surroundings. I went back to the beach for the next few days with Frank Gillette in mind and edited this piece from cell-phone files that I had emailed to myself and downloaded to edit. Tetragrammaton, is a response to Frank Gillette. In making this video, I began to see the function of the spiritual as separated from the funciton of the philosophical, as unassociated with belief systems, logic and morality. One channel of the video was processed through the Paik-Abe Raster Scan Device ( aka Wobulator ) This is a modified black and white monitor designed for electromagnetic deflection of the video raster via control voltages. Thanks to the Experimental Television Center!"--Cecilia Dougherty, the artist's Vimeo.com page, https://vimeo.com/ 16936387
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.
Physical description2 videocassettes (23 min.) (Digital Betacam NTSC) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

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LEADER 00000ngm a2200361Ii 4500 001 971629351 003 OCoLC 005 20170208023513.0 007 vf czahos 008 170208s2010 nyu023 vleng d 040 CUY|beng|erda|cCUY 245 00 Tetragrammaton /|c[video installation by Ceclia Dougherty]. 257 United States. 264 0 [New York] :|b[Cecilia Dougherty],|c[2010]. 300 2 videocassettes (23 min.) (Digital Betacam NTSC) :|bsound, color ;|c1/2 in. 336 two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 337 video|bv|2rdamedia 338 videocassette|bvf|2rdacarrier 344 |3channel 1|gsilent 344 |3channel 2|gstereo|2rda 500 "In 1973, sculptor Frank Gillette made a 23-minute videotape called Tetragrammaton at a beach near New York. It is one element of a six-part video installation called Six Matrices, from 1971 - 73. Gilette's camera focuses on ripples in the sand, driftwood, shells, and feathers and then swings out wildly to a long shot of the sea and the horizon. At one point, Gillette swings the camera 360- degrees, and at other points he stays glued to one small object in the sand, defining with his camerawork the body of the artist as well as his surroundings. I went back to the beach for the next few days with Frank Gillette in mind and edited this piece from cell-phone files that I had emailed to myself and downloaded to edit. Tetragrammaton, is a response to Frank Gillette. In making this video, I began to see the function of the spiritual as separated from the funciton of the philosophical, as unassociated with belief systems, logic and morality. One channel of the video was processed through the Paik-Abe Raster Scan Device ( aka Wobulator ) This is a modified black and white monitor designed for electromagnetic deflection of the video raster via control voltages. Thanks to the Experimental Television Center!"--Cecilia Dougherty, the artist's Vimeo.com page, https://vimeo.com/ 16936387 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. |5 CBPF. 520 Two channels of cell phone footage of beach scenes, one atop the other. The top channel is heavily processed and processed sounds play throughout. 538 Digital Betacam NTSC 541 0 |3PFA 0504-01-15560. |a D0181 |c donation |d 2012/05/29 |5CBPF 541 0 |3PFA 0504-01-15559. |a D0181 |c donation |d 2012/05/29 |5CBPF 590 PFA 0504-01-15560. Single-channel (combined) preview version. 655 7 Short films.|2lcgft 655 7 Experimental films.|2lcgft 655 7 Video installations (Art).|2lcgft 700 1 Dougherty, Cecilia,|eartist. 956 20170208|bpfmcq|cCO 957 OCLC xref loaded 20170219 994 C0|bCUY