Electronic Arts Intermix: Robert Buck

Robert Buck

Robert Buck

Overview

In his body of moving image work that spans the mid-1980s to the present, Robert Beck/Buck merges cinematic, televisual, and visual art aesthetics and strategies to singular effect, paying careful attention to the viewer's experience of his art. From his conceptual cable access television series of the 1980s through his activist works, "alternative" music videos and found-footage pieces, Beck/Buck's privileging of unexpected interpretations is the heritage of an eclectic list of influences, including Marcel Duchamp and Cady Noland, Robert Bresson and George Romero, film theorist Carol Clover and novelist Cormac McCarthy, the true-crime genre, the teachings of Jacques Lacan, and forensic science.

Titles

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Learning from Dynasty

1986, 8:16 min, color, sound

The Space Program

1986, 504 min, color, sound

NASA Footage Re-scan

1985, 28 min, color, sound

In Answer to A-R-T

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Exploding Head

1985, 28 min, color, sound

My Face

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Money

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Exploding Television

1985, 28 min, color, sound

EXIT

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Mirror

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Time

1985, 28 min, color, sound

STOP

1985, 28 min, color, sound

August (E/PPF)

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Eye ( I )

1985, 28 min, color, sound

ABCs

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Foil

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Commercials

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Commodity Loop ("Imagine")

1985, 28 min, color, sound

"I Dreamed Another Man Dreamed Me"

1986, 28 min, color, sound

TV Architecture

1986, 28 min, color, sound

W/hole: “I Dreamed Another Man Dreamed Me"

1987, 6 min, color, sound

The Feeling of Power

1990, 9 min, color, sound

Summer, 1993

1994, 7 min, color, sound

Nine Years Later (“Bigmouth Strikes Again”)

1995, 11 min, color, sound

Cruising (Back to Front)

1998, 101 min, color, sound

Nine Years Later (“Girlfriend In A Coma”)

1998, 12:00 min, color, sound

The Trophy

1998, 4 min, color, sound

Untitled (Dec. 29, 1993)

1999, 3:30 min, b&w, sound

The Memorial Screening

2000, 11 min, b&w, sound

Nine Years Later (“Panic”)—Remix

2001, 11:00 min, color, sound

Song Poem (Trips Visits)

2001, 6:00 min, color, stereo sound

Slide/Show

2016, 24:26 min, color, sound

License

2018, 11:54 min, color, sound, HD video

Grass Light on Flesh

2022, 7:09 min, Color, Stereo, HD video