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- "Red Tape", featuring five short videos by American video art pioneer Bill Viola, is the artist's first of several collections of short pieces that function thematically as larger "meta-works."
- Seating in an armchair against a stark background, the artist stares at the camera, his silence punctuated by screams. The camera pulls back to show he's at the end of a long hallway, and rapidly zooms again into the inside of his mouth .
- Bill Viola's first color videotape, "Vidicon Burns" was completed in 1973 at the Synapse Video Center at Syracuse University, New York, with the collaboration of Bob Burns. These are collected excerpts from 30-minute original videotape.
- Two sequences of distortions, one human and physical, the other electronic and visual, are presented in succession.
- Presents a succession of images of the moment of impact of violent acts of destruction, in a darkened studio, visible only as discrete individual video frames revealed by an electronic photoflash.
- Bill Viola's color videotape "Polaroid Video Stills" was completed in 1973 at the Synapse Video Center at Syracuse University, New York, and recorded in mono sound. These are collected excerpts from a 10-minute original videotape.
- Live black-and-white video projection of a composite image mixed from three cameras (two on automatic-scanning motors), with three heterodyning sine tones.
- Experimental audio/video installation, produced at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, featuring bank of four black-and-white monitors and two cameras in closed-circuit system with feedback and delay; amplified floor.
- Collected works videotape featuring three short videos shot by artist Bill Viola during the Summer of 1974 at Synapse Video Center in Syracuse, NY: Instant Breakfast (1974), Olfaction (1974), and Recycle (1974).
- Experimental audio/video installation, produced at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, featuring live video and audio interchange between two indoor locations through two-way, black-and-white, cable television system.
- The expression "semi-circular canal" refers to the portion of the human ear that regulates balance. Bill Viola constructed a platform on which he and the recording equipment counterbalanced one another, while freely suspended from a large tree. The artist appears to be sitting calmly at the center of the universe as the earth rotates.
- Bill Viola's first experimental videotape, "Wild Horses" was completed in 1972 at the Synapse Video Center at Syracuse University, New York, with the collaboration of Marge Monroe. The result is recorded in black-and-white video with mono sound, and is mastered on a 15-minute 1/2 inch open-reel tape.
- Live broadcast in a small, private room at Synapse Video Center (Syracuse, NY) with black-and-white videotape-delay system using 2 monitors and one camera. The result is recorded in mono and mastered on a 20-minute 1/2 inch open-reel tape.
- An attempt to stare down the self.
- "Junkyard Levitation" is a visual pun on the concept of "mind over matter," as a man attempts to levitate while lying prone in a junkyard.
- A drop of water emerging from a small brass valve is magnified by a video camera and projected on a large screen. The close-up image reveals that the viewer and part of the room where they stand are visible inside each forming drop.