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  d/stabilize/d

  Barbara Sykes, Chicago, Eleanor Boyer, Performance

  “d/stabilize/d is a document of a 3-channel video installation with stereo sound which premiered at ARC Gallery in Chicago in 1987. d/stabilize/d offered the viewer a chaotic environment poised on the verge of balance. Entering the gallery, one was immediately confronted by a nonsensical arrangement of floating doors, doorways and monitors. On the monitors, random fragments of natural phenomena, such as fire and pounding surf, were set in opposition to more domestic scenes of deterioration, centering on a farmhouse in ruins. A further exploration of the space revealed these elements, as subtly engaged in a systemic and coherent exchange between order and disorder, harmony and imbalance.”–Barbara Sykes

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  Cape May Composite

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  This tape contains two pieces created for the weekly TV show “Are You There?” They focus on the environmental and political problems within the town of Cape May, New Jersey.

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  Ladies Home Journal

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Performance

  This tape is a collection of short experimental video pieces shot by women in the early seventies.

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  Color Composite

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, NHPRC

  This tape features a collection of videos created by Eric Siegel, an early pioneer in video image processing. This is a black and white copy of these color programs.

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  New York, New York, Part 2

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  This video aired on a New York TV program called “Perception.” It was recorded in the early seventies and is a lush cityscape that gives the viewer a glimpse into daily life in New York City.

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  New York, New York, Part 1

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  This video aired on a New York TV program called “Perception.” It was recorded in the early seventies and is a lush cityscape that gives the viewer a glimpse into daily life in New York City.

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  Memories from the Dept. of Amnesia

  Asian American, Communities, International, Video Makers Choice, War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection.

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  Media Burn by Ant Farm, 2003 edit

  Ant Farm, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, Performance, Viewers Choice

  A recent edit (2003) of Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets.

  Preceding the event are clips from various TV news broadcasts that covered it (many of the TV reporters make the comment that they “didn’t get it”). The tape includes interviews with invited guests, a speech given by Doug Hall as President John F. Kennedy explaining the message of Media Burn, the dramatic unveiling of the Phantom Dream Car, several sequences of the car smashing through the TV sets, and its triumphant return from the end of the Cow Palace parking lot.