Merce by Merce by Paik Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments

Merce Cunningham and Charles Atlas

1975-76, 15:38 min, color, sound

Blue Studio: Five Segments is a groundbreaking work of videodance by postmodern master Merce Cunningham and his then filmmaker-in-residence, Charles Atlas. In a series of short pieces choreographed and performed specifically for video space, Cunningham is multiplied, overlaid and transported from the studio to a series of unexpected landscapes. Cunningham's gestural dance is manipulated to the accompaniment of a disjunctive audio collage that includes the voices of John Cage and Jasper Johns.

Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic?

Tony Cokes 

2006-2008, 31:07 min, b&w, sound

Drawing from music critic Philip Sherburne’s writings and British cultural theorist Paul Gilroy’s influential study The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1994), Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic? considers the socio-political context undergirding the roots of minimal techno in...

Millennia

Barbara Buckner

1981, 5:33 min, color, silent

Mirage

Joan Jonas

1976, 31 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video

Writes Jonas: "For Mirage I made a film of drawing, again and again, images on a blackboard, and then erasing them. Reading the essays collected in Spiritual Disciplines, I got another idea to use drawings, also in Mirage, which I called 'Endless Drawings' after those described in the Melukean...

Mirage 2

Joan Jonas

1976-2000, 30 min, b&w, sound

Mirage 2, which Jonas edited at EAI in 2000 for simultaneous projection with her 1976 film Mirage, is a montage composed of video dating from the era of the original film and performance. A kaleidoscopic and hypnotic piece, it revisits footage recorded in the 1970s: fragments of off-air...

Mirror

Robert Buck

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch

Mike Kelley

2011, 53:12 min, color, sound, HD video

Model Release

In collaboration with Constance DeJong 

1992, 3:24 min, color, sound

Writes Oursler: "Model Release uses legal text to draw parallels between slavery, prostitution, spiritual possession and the practices of the media machine. The viewer is asked to fill-in-the-blanks of the contract and decide what part of their being they are willing to give up."

Mommy

Maggie Lee

2015, 56:22 min, color, sound, HD video

Produced during Lee’s trip to her childhood home in New Jersey after the unexpected death of her mother, Mommy weaves the artist’s memories into a kaleidoscopic narrative of devotion, memory, intrafamilial desires, and the evolution of American subcultures on the Internet. Using her mother’s unfinished autobiography as a starting point, Lee infuses personal and family history, situating Mommy as a story of her mother’s life as well as her own.

Mountaineer Spinning

Ken Jacobs

2004, 26 min, sound

WARNING: This work contains throbbing light. Should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders.