Extending Martin's early explorations of interactivity into a new medium, Galaxy is a web-based light and sound "cyber sculpture" where elements of varying light intensity, placement, and motion are determined by individual users. The accumulation of individuals' actions forms an on-screen grouping of these elements where real time synthesizes with remembered time. A shared human galaxy is created, continually modulating in shape and spacial configuration.

In Galerie de portraits, André sketches the portraits of five women from among her closest friends and family (including her grandmother and daughter), composing an intimate, intensely private space. Her eloquent compositions focus on the quotidian, the richness inherent in such everyday gest ...

Using unedited footage from Bruce Lee's last (unfinished) film, Fulbeck turns the subtitled martial arts movie genre back on itself — leveling criticism, questions, and hilarious commentary with the medium's own tools. The legendary Bruce Lee is examined in the various roles he posthumously ca ...

Deftly intercutting illusion and reality, Game of the Week is an affectionate look at America's obsession with baseball. As artist-in-residence with the San Francisco Giants, Doug Hall lived out a life-long fantasy of playing Major League baseball. Hall half-mockingly, half-seriously immerses ...

Integrating the impassioned stance of his Vietnam tapes with the poetic strategies of his later work, this elegy to subjugated and slaughtered elephants earns its polemical stance by force of compelling subject matter. Powered by the poetry of Lorca, Rilke and Kipling, Reeves' procession of charged ...

Hodel sits before the camera, dressed in a crisp white T-shirt. She begins to "cut away" at herself with large silver shears. Obviously watching her actions on a monitor, Hodel becomes entranced in her own image, leading several times to dangerously close cuts.

The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from one "container" (the pot) to another (his body).

Silent or with minimal sound, these early formalist works explore the manipulation of electronic color and image density through the camera obscura and image processing devices. Of these tapes, Hill has written that "much of the subject matter and the expressionistic method of working underline and in some sense parody the traditional medium of painting."

In these early works, Hill explores the structural and organic relation of linguistics to electronic phenomena, stating that "certain structural properties of video are revealed in an almost primal sense." In Electronic Linguistics, small electronic shapes on the screen, moving in a gradually ...

In these works from the late 1970s, Hill continues to construct a dialogue of sound and image, devising analogies between linguistics and electronic phenomena. In Full Circle, the screen is divided into three sections: a close-up of hands bending a metal rod into a circle; a full-image view o ...

This tape is a "feedback" dialogue inspired by the installations and single-channel works in the 1994 exhibition Gary Hill: Sites Recited at the Long Beach Museum of Art.

Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside pastry. Majestic mineral deposits rise from the salt laden waters as the bloated and bulimic revel in nature's nutrients."

In this film, Nauman, bit by bit, pulls five or six yards of gauze from his mouth. Along with Black Balls and Pulling Mouth, it is one of the "Slo-Mo" films that he shot with an industrial high speed camera.

In this rare portrait of Fluxus founder George Maciunas, Kubota pays homage to a mentor and fellow Fluxus artist. Maciunas tours SoHo with artists and friends, including Nam June Paik, Barbara and Peter Moore, and Yoshi Wada; Kubota also documents Fluxus artist Ben Vautier's 1976 opening at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In China, Family Planning is No Private Matter, documents the 1978 visit of an American team of doctors to the People's Republic of China. Invited by the government to observe facets of China's extensive family-planning programs, the team visits contraception-education and abortion clinics. ...

The four-part series Gerald Ford's America comprises TVTV's coverage of the American political system, from the presidency to the Washington press corps and the bureaucracy of Capitol Hill. In Chic To Sheik, they take on the Washington Establishment and its social scene. Examining the ...

The four-part series Gerald Ford's America scrutinizes the "first one hundred days" of the Ford presidency. In WIN (the title refers to the slogan "Whip Inflation Now"), the TVTV crew follows Ford on a goodwill tour of his old constituency in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Having promised to end ...

Gestures is a series of performance-based works in which Wilke faces the camera in extreme close-up and performs repetitive or durational physical actions. At times she kneads and pulls her skin as if it were sculptural material. Often her gestures — rubbing her hands over her face, smi ...

This complex, multi-layered work, called an "anti-documentary" by its authors, combines footage of rioting at the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa with performances by Chloe Sevigny, Werner von Delmont and members of the Black Bloc anarchist group. These elements yield a disorienting and critical video that ultimately questions its own status and role as much as that of its subjects. The artists write that Get Rid of Yourself functions as "a cine-tract that aligns itself with nascent forms of political resistance within the anti-globalization movement... a filmed essay that works by betraying its own form."

Blumberg's approach is playful in Get Wet, which focuses on a local synchronized swim team in performance. His use of underwater camera, slow motion and close-ups gives the viewer an unusual perspective from which to watch the amateurs' routines. Blumberg's subtle application of special effec ...

Silver describes getting in as a tape about "heterosexual sex and the architecture of Northern California." The rest is for the viewer to decipher.

These richly layered video collages — of city, body, and landscape — paint a portrait of threatened spirituality in the age of fast food and fast cameras. Each is accompanied by a moving, at times meditative soundtrack. From Steve Reich's minimalist score for Numbering Numbers to Mozart's "Concerto #23" in My Body is a Boat, we hear and see both the eternal and the incidental flicker and dim, leaving a landscape in which cultural and individual identities are adrift.

Ghosts & Demons is a single-channel version of the four-channel installation of the same title. In the installation, appropriated broadcast television images — electronically processed and decontextualized by Jones — were rendered as abstract, black- and-white visuals. The visual ...

Gift of Fire devotes fetishistic attention to what is probably the first film in history: Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince's 1888 footage of traffic crossing Leeds Bridge. Jacobs continues his intellectual and scientific experimentation with cinema history and visual phenomena by displaying the footage in anaglyph 3-D color, intercut with contextual text and other legendary film scenes, such as the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.

This documentary opens with the extraordinary image of a woman who has just given birth, her baby carefully resting on her stomach with the umbilical cord still connected. Portraying four different childbirth situations — from midwife-assisted at home to a hospital delivery — Reilly and ...

Writes Kuchar, "A mighty stretch of terrestrial grandeur leaves its marks on the underbelly of metropolitan urchins in search of gelatinous goodness."

Bag constructs a grisly half-hour of television using the format of a reality dating show. Bag appears as JoJo, a weathered female contestant sporting an infant and a tracheotomy scar, who drinks and dances as her three suitors compete for a date. Punctuated with flashy graphics, techno music and talking-head interviews with the contenders, this grotesque parody of barroom courtship and "reality" romance skewers a spectrum of cable TV tropes. Bag interrupts the program with self-made commercials.

This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each other with synchronized movements as they perform as alter-egos, Jonas and Lane reference archetypal female gestures and poses from popular and traditi ...

Global Groove is a seminal work in the history of video art. Paik's radical manifesto on global communications in a media-saturated world is rendered as an electronic collage, a sound and image pastiche that subverts the very language of television. With surreal visual wit and an antic neo-Dada sensibility, Paik brings together a cross-cultural melange of artworld figures and Pop iconography.

Go For It, Mike is a parodic music video that re-envisions the Horatio Alger myth of the American Dream via 1950s-style cultural cliches, advertising and Reagan-era media propaganda. Smith's "regular guy" Mike embodies a series of all-American male stereotypes, from the classroom to political ...

In Godiva, Hodel's frenetic costuming enhances this comically manic portrait of a woman, chocolate, accessories and other worlds.

In this early experiment on perception and point of view, five subjects are seen through a board in which five circular holes have been cut; they move between five points, turn in circles and follow instructions. The artist and her subjects discuss their experience of the performance, how it is perceived on the ground and through the playback monitor, and the scales and viewpoints created.

Writes Kuchar: "It was my 50th birthday this year (1992) and my friend's birthday, so I explored our position in time and dusty place with a prognostication on future inertia."

In this chapter of his ongoing Video-8 diary, Kuchar's birthday becomes an occasion to ponder mortality, dust, ...

In this powerful personal narrative, Hámos documents the reunion of his grandmother Golda and her sister Roza after a separation of eighty years. Through a series of uncanny coincidences, Hámos helps Golda find Roza (who was sent to America from Hungary in 1912 to find work) in Los Angeles. Hámos tr ...

In this early work, an electronic homage to Magritte, the Vasulkas demonstrate fundamental imaging techniques. Inspired by Magritte's painting The Golden Legend, this exercise employs a three-camera set-up, with images layered through a multikeyer, to create the illusion of objects moving thr ...

Writes Pearlstein, "A seemingly invaluable object - a white rectangular panel - is placed in the middle of a black box theater. A group of nine, each wearing an article of metallic gold clothing set upon the task of ripping it apart. They tear it to shreds, taunting, fighting and climbing all over each other to greedily gather every last shard of it for them selves. As an independent yet related work to the four-channel installation After the Fall, Goldrush posits a cathartic aftermath that is at once apocalyptic and suggestively orgiastic."

Good Morning Mr.Orwell is an edited version of Paik's first international satellite "installation," which was held on New Year's Day 1984. Paik's transcultural satellite extravaganzas link different countries, spaces, and times in often chaotic but entertaining collages of art and pop culture ...

In Good Night Good Morning, Jonas uses video as a diaristic construct to chart the passing of personal time through quotidian ritual. Over three different periods in New York and Nova Scotia, she videotaped herself every day, briefly addressing the camera upon waking in the morning and before ...

A plastic container dangles from a string, a banana protruding from a hole in its side. To the accompaniment of Middle Eastern music, Donegan, her head wrapped in a white turban, catches the swaying banana with her mouth. Moving as if in a trance of erotic delirium, she engulfs the banana, chews at ...

Grand Mal is a hallucinatory, discordant drama, an extravagant and sinister fable of postmodern cultural malaise. Oursler's obsessional themes and morbid visions of religion, sex and death unravel in a fragmented narrative of fear, horror, delirium — and humor. His fantastic theater of ...

Grass is a meditation on both the creative and destructive powers of human nature. Representations of the beginning of life progress into a dynamic collage in which all elements appear to be suspended in space and time — a fish in water, an embryo in the womb, human figures in perpetual ...

In Great Mother (HARUMI), the first part of a trilogy, Idemitsu portrays fourteen-year-old Harumi's rebellion against her domineering mother. Harumi cannot escape her, even locked in her bedroom; a television monitor showing the idealized mother in a traditional Japanese kimono looms over her ...

The domestic melodrama Great Mother (SACHIKO) examines the insularity of women's roles in the Japanese family, focusing on the relationships of mother and daughter, husband and wife. Caught between her possessive mother and abusive husband, Sachiko struggles through her daily existence. Her m ...

The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. Yumiko, a rebellious young woman from an affluent family, encounters resistance fro ...

"A table is set with two identical red books placed at diagonal corners and a stack of three poker chips placed in the center. Two women, Tina Girouard and Susanne Harris, enter the frame. Harris is wearing a red blouse, Girouard a blue blouse with a red carnation in her buttonhole. They shake hands ...

The final installment of the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series uses the deadpan syntax of television melodrama to tell the story of Sumie, a young Japanese woman who marries an American surfer/filmmaker for the green card that will allow her to pursue her artistic career. Falling prey to the seduc ...

Greetings from Lanesville is a compendium of Media Bus work, as well as an affectionate portrait of their community. The Lanesville station featured programs on community affairs, bulletin boards, and interviews with local residents.

Lampert writes, "Growth Opportunities was originally presented in 2000 at La Panaderia in Mexico City as part of the program Wish You Were Here: Mexican Films By Gringos. It was re-staged later that year at Anthology Film Archives, New York City. The video documentation and script seen here c ...

One of Paik's most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural memory and mythology on the site of one of World War II's most devastating battles. Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands is the iconic se ...

Continuing Downey's Trans Americas series, Guahibos documents the artist's journey down the Middle Orinoco River of Venezuela and his encounter with the semi-Westernized Guahibos. Part anthropological record, part personal odyssey, this subjective document parallels the divided cultura ...

X-PRZ constructs a powerful collage of rap music, authorial text, and iconic visuals to confront the politics of race in the context of the American media. Writes Tony Cokes: "Slick and easily legible Pop surface: deploying the Black male media projecti ...

To create Commercial, subtitled "one-minute adventures in the world of TV," Hámos and Christoph Dreher taped thirty hours of programming from Berlin television. This appropriated footage of slasher films, Westerns, cartoons and educational programs is set to the music of The Residents. Nine o ...