Electronic Arts Intermix: Frank Gillette

Frank Gillette

Frank Gillette

Overview

Merging a rich visual sensibility with an almost scientific engagement with taxonomy and ecological systems, Frank Gillette is a video pioneer whose multi-channel installations and tapes focus on empirical observations of natural phenomena. An early theorist of video's formal and aesthetic parameters, in 1969 he was a founding member of the video collective Raindance.

Titles

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Hark! Hork!

1972-73, 19:25 min, b&w, sound

Quidditas

1974-75, 19 min, color, sound

Rituals for a Still Life

1974-75, 24:54 min, b&w, sound

The Maui Cycle

1976, 45:40 min, color, sound, three-channel installation

Mecox

1976-77, 18:06 min (each channel), color, sound, three-channel installation

Symptomatic Syntax

1981, 27:20 min, color, sound

Canon 1, Canon 2

1984, 12:02 min, color, sound

Canon #1

1984, 4:57 min, color, sound

Canon #2

1984, 7:05 min, color, sound

In the Creeks

1984, 59:27 min, color, sound

Tempest

1984, 8:11 min, color, sound

See also

WGBH

Raindance

Television as a Creative Medium

Jud Yalkut

1972, 6 min, color, silent