At Maple Tree Farm

David Cort and the Videofreex. 

1972-75, 10:33 min, b&w , sound

In At Maple Tree Farm and Beyond, Cort employs the "Video Art Transposer" to transform images during the recording process, manipulating staged events in a real-time, interactive electronic theater.

Both

James Byrne

1974, 3:38 min, b&w, sound

Einstine

Eric Siegel

1968, 5:41 min, color, sound

In Einstine, which was based on the installation Psychedelevision in Color, a photograph of Albert Einstein is colorized and manipulated to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov.

How TV Works

Dan Sandin in collaboration with Phil Morton and Barbara Sykes. 

1977, 27:48 min, color, sound

is an informal, offbeat lesson in the electronics and mechanics of television. Sandin demonstrates basic video procedures, including use of the camera and editing decks, and explains the transmission of the television signal.

Media Primer (Shamberg)

Raindance 

1971, 16:29 min, b&w, sound

In Shamberg's Media Primer, rhetoric and gestures are skewered as he examines the political structure of alternative media.

The Medium is the Medium

WGBH 

1969, 20:39 min, color, sound

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. WGBH commissioned artists — Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock and Aldo Tambellini — to create original works for broadcast television. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture.

Translucent

James Byrne

1974, 2:15 min, b&w, sound