They Might Be Giants

1/21/04 to 2/25/04

  • Nam June Paik: Edited for Television, January 28

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Past Films

  • Steina and Woody Vasulka

    • Wednesday, February 25 7:30

    Introduction by Robert Riley. Steina and Woody Vasulka's ingenious work explores the plasticity of the video medium using an array of customized tools and processes, so that a violin becomes an image-generating instrument and history attaches itself to three-dimensional objects. That's a wrap!

  • Tony Oursler

    • Wednesday, February 18 7:30 pm

    Introduction by Tony Labat. Tony Oursler's universe is a roiling theater in miniature: on kooky expressionist sets, polymorphous props lead their perverse lives. Another artist now better known for his museum installations, Oursler in his early videos was truly an enfant terrible.

  • Bill Viola

    • Wednesday, February 11 7:30

    Introduction by Anne Wagner. Bill Viola is known today for his video installations in museum galleries, but he was equally celebrated for the earlier single-channel videoworks that express his hallmark themes of perception, spirit, and time with virtuosic flair.

  • Gary Hill

    • Wednesday, February 4 7:30 pm

    Introduction by Margaret Morse. With rare insight, beauty, and visual complexity, Gary Hill's videotapes look at language as a medium on which consciousness floats. If you have never seen his work, you are in for a wondrous experience.

  • When Video Came plus Works by Nam June Paik

    • Wednesday, January 28 7:30 pm

    Introduction by Steve Seid. West Coast Premiere! Artists and critics are eloquent and insightful in a kinetic new documentary on the early history of video art. Plus the work of Nam June Paik, whose performance videos, altered television sets, and video sculptures set it all in motion.

  • Ant Farm

    • Wednesday, January 21 7:30 pm

    Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez in Person. Introduction by Patricia Mellencamp. Exuberant spectacle meets guerrilla media in The Cadillac Ranch Show, Media Burn, The Eternal Frame, and other videoworks by Ant Farm.