Two short videos by Barbara Sykes. Eyes, made in November 1980, consists of an extended close-up of a woman’s eye, the image tinted blue with shifting color. Shadow, made in March 1981, is a dance video in which the dancer is seen only in the outline of a silhouette, their image doubled.
A compilation of video art by Barbara Sykes, with Sykes in voiceover talking about her life and her work.
Raw footage processed with a video synthesizer of an event at a space on Halsted St. in Chicago.
An image processing video that abstracts images of a dancer.
Two image processing works by videomaker Barbara Sykes.
Video of a performance by dancer Jan Lewis that has been synthesized and processed into abstract patterns and colors by videomaker Barbara Sykes.
Abstract compositions inspired by the imagery of North American indigenous cultures. Created using the Sandin Image Processor.
The opening event of the symposium Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions of Early Independent Video, which took place in the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center April 19-21, 2024. This screening on Friday, April 19, features clips and short videos from the 1970s, with introductions by the individual artists, scholars, and curators.