Education 1964 Univ. Wisconsin, Madison-M.A./Magister-Physiological Psychology Philosophy of Science; 1961 Ludwig Maximilian Univ., München-Art History, Philology, Literature; 1960 Brown Univrsity, Providence, Rhode Island, magna cum laude, phi beta kappa, B.A.-Experimental Psychology, Comparative Literature; Videotapes documentary (D) / art (A) / installation (I), all VHS-PAL, color, except where otherwise stated: 2001 TV as a Creative Medium (D)from 1969,11min.B/W, Vision & Television (D)from 1970,35 min.B/W. Brazil the Sleeping Giant (A/D) 58 min.; 2000 How Bill Viola Does It,(A) 2 minutes; 1999 Schneider Heieratet Seine SONYa,(A) 3minutes; 1998 Nam June Paik is eating Sushi in South Beach (Miami,Florida),(A) one minute; 1997 The Frantic Pedantic Semantic Antic (A) sound & color added to original 1965 silent film, 8 min. 1996 Mr. Fluxus, Memorial to George Maciunas, May 1, 1996, Wiesbaden w. many Fluxians (D), 2hrs. 1995 Datenraum Deutschland, (I) edits of 16 Bundesland tapes about past & present cultural expression, visitors walk on large (16x12m) map of Germany, 16 tapes play simultaneously 1994 The 2 Woodstock Festivals of 1994, Saugerties § Bethel, N.Y., (D), 1 hr. selection w. Martin Hamlet 1993 Das Vereinigte Deutschland, sampler of the videos for the 1995 installation, (D), ca. 30 min. 1992 Video Skulptur, (D) of the 1989 group video show, Kunstverein Köln, ca. 40 installations, 30 min. 1992 Neil Williams’s Wake, (D) F.Stella, J.Schnabel, Viva, Ultraviolet, Taylor Mead etc. attended, 70 min. 1991 John Campbell, great blues guitarist at Nells, 14th St. N.Y.C., (D), 2 hrs. (NTSC) 1990 Music from the N.Y. clubs- J. Campbell at Nells, Mystic Chain at the BBQ, 4 hrs. 1989 The World Trade Center, (A) animation, 30 seconds 1989 People walking through the Berlin Wall, (A) trick, Aug. 1989, shown in Kongresshalle Berlin, 5 min. in Wipe Cycle, (I) by I.S. & F.Gillette, part of Video Skulptur group show, Aug.27-Sept. 27, 1989,(NTSC); 1988 A Day at Copacabana Beach, (A), Rio folk culture at the beach, 12 min.* 1987 The New York City Parking Game, (A), complicated rules & heavy penalties, happy ending, 10 min. 1986 Either a Honeymoon or a Forced March, (A) manic trip, Paris, Italy, Yugo., Austria, Germany, 1 hr. 1985 Bigelows Luncheonette Closes Forever,(D) the Village, loses a favorite meeting&eating spot, 26min. 1984 TV as a Creative Medium(D) the first group videoshow in N.Y. 1969, Howard Wise Gallery, 10min. 1984 The 11th. Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, (A/D), archetypal all saints day, 36 min. 1984 A Weekend at the Beach, w. Jean-Luc Godard, (A/D), W. Wenders, H. Müller, etc. 1978, Calif., 7min. 1980 TIMEZONES, a reality simulation, (I) 24 videos, 30 min. of each time zone, played simultaneously giving the feeling that one could see all over the world at the same time; 1978 Some Scenes in Southern California, (A), landscapes & mellow culture, 13 min., (I) with below;* 1977 Several Minutes of Several Days in the Hamptons, N.Y. beach culture, 13 min., (I) with above, b/w;* 1976 Echo (A/D/I), doc. of visual (Video) echo installation, Syracuse N.Y., 12 min. 1976 More or Less Related incidents in Recent History,(A/D) mix of 25 yrs. of news, war, culture, 41min*. 1975 Bit, Chunks, and Pieces, (A) prototype for video disc on American culture,b/w,50min.,(I)Video 75*,(NTSC); 1974 Manhattan is an Island, map (I), experience all Manahattan in one space, 6 tapes simult., b/w, 1hr.* 1974 Gregory Bateson, (D), lecture on biology & culture, Lehman College, N.Y., b/w, ca. 60 min. 1973 Richard Serra, installing sculpture at the Staedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, (D), b/w, ca. 5 min. 1973 The Boring Years, (A) city & country contrasts, with Beryl Korot, b/w, 5 min.* 1973 The Fourth of July in Saugerties, (A/D) typical American celebration, w. B.Korot, b/w, ca. 5 min. 1970 Media Primer, (D) relationship of media to American culture, b/w, 30 min.* 1970 Steve Miller Group, The Who, Mountain, Jefferson Airplane at the Filmore East, b/w, ca. 30min. each (NTSC); 1970 Buckminster Fuller, (D) rap on the history of civilization & ecology, b/w, 35 min., director/editor; 1969 Abbie Hofmann (D), rap on the Chicago 8 trial & America, b/w, 20 min. producer & sound; 1969 The Rolling Stones free Concert at Altamont, Ca., (D) subject of Give Me Shelter, b/w 3 hrs. 1969 The Woodstock Festival, (D) backstage, crowds, sociology, b/w, 60 min. 1969 Wipe Cycle, (I) with Frank Gillette, two 30 min. edited tapes, 2 video time delays, 1 live camera, mixing the audience into the art work as active participants (NTSC); 1969 The Ohio Tapes, (D/A) farmers, students, performance, America, with Frank Gillette, b/w, 9 hrs.(NTSC). *above = Information Collage, style of combining audio & visual data Solo video exhibitions, screenings & presentations / Installations, lectures, seminars 2002 ZKM Karlsruhe, selections from the video archive 2001 Studio 63, Berlin, video +photos, 2000 National Galerie, Prag, Art Akademie Budapest, HDK Berlin 1998 Humboldt Universität, Lecture and video screening; 1998 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Lecture on early Video Art +video examples; 1997 Institut Galerie & Kaufladen, Berlin, video screening & installation; 1997 Anthology Film Archive, N.Y.C., 3 evenings of video screenings; 1996 Shift Galerie, Berlin, screening; 1994 Akademie der Kunst, Saarbrücken, presentations and seminars; 1994 Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel & Städel Schule für Kunst, Frankfurt a. Main., screenings & Lectures; 1993 Akademie der Künste, Düsseldorf, screening & lecture; 1992 Konrad Wolfe Film School, Babelsberg, Germany, presention; 1992 Night Light TV, N.Y.C. cable-tv show, presentation; 1988 Casa da Cor, Sao Paulo, Brazil, lecture & presentation; 1988 Museum of Image & Sound, Sao Paulo. installation; 1986 Hochschule der Künste, Zürich, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel, Kunst Museum, Bern, Kunst Akademie, Luzern, Centre Culturelle, Geneve, lectures & screenings; 1985 Institute for North American Studies, Barcelona, University of Barcelona, lectures & screenings; 1983 American Center, Paris, presentation & seminar; 1981 University of California, San Diego, screening & lecture; 1981 Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C., Timezones - a reality simulation, installation; 1980 Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y., Timezones, 24 tapes, one from each zone played simultaneously; 1980 Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin, summer video art production workshop, Berlin is an Island; 1979 Environmental Communications & Some Small Business; Venice, Ca., installation; 1979 Boston Film & Video Coop, installation & presentation; 1978 Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin presentation; 1978 AVZ GRAZ, Installation & lecture; 1978 Anthology Film Archive, N.Y.C., Echo, installation; 1977 Whitney Musum of American Art, N.Y.C., Manhatten is an Island, installation; 1976 Synapse, Syracuse University, N.Y.C., Echo, installation; 1975 The Kitchen, N.Y.C., Video 75, installation,9 videotapes simultaneously; 1974 The Kitchen, N.Y.C., Manhatten is an island, installation 1974 Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C. screening; 1974 Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, screening; Group shows 2002 Kunstpunkt Berlin, videos 1999+2000 Art Forum Berlin 1998 Museum of Modern Art,N.Y., 1997 Art Forum, Messe Berlin, Art Club Berlin; 1994 Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C., TV as a Creative Medium, 25th anniversary of the first video group show in N.Y.C. (1969) at the Howard Wise Gallery, with Nam Jun Paik, Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan & others; 1994 America Haus, Berlin, Fulbright meetings, Wanderungen durch die deutschen Länder, installation preview 1991 The Kitchen, N.Y.C. Raindance Foundation 20 th. anniversary exhibition; with Beryl Korot, Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan & Davidson Gigliotti; 1989 Kongresshalle, Berlin, Video Skulptur, ca 45 installations, Wipe Cycle, with Frank Gillette; 1989 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Video Skulptur, ca. 45 installations, Wipe Cycle, with Frank Gillette, also works by Paik, Kubota, Oursler, Shaw, Campus, Levine, Schwartz, Graham, Muntades & more; 1985 travelling show, Time, the fourth dimension in Art, at The Barbican Center, London, Museum Moderne Kunst, Wien, Museum Nouvelle, Lyon, & Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Timezones; 1984 Palais de Beaux Art, Brussel, Time, the fourth dimension in Art, Timezones, (tapes from the 24 timezones-see all over the world at the same time) & works by Duchamp, Man Ray, Paik, Monet, D. Oppenheim, Rodin & others; 1980 Winter Olmpics, Lake Placid, N.Y., Timezones, & works by Paik, Gillette & others; 1975 Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; 1975 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; 1974 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; 1970 Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Mass. Random Interlace Content Electronics, (works by Videofreex, F. Gillette, Paik, P. Ryan & others); 1969 Howard Wise Gallery, N.Y.C., TV as a Creative Medium, Wipe Cycle, with F. Gillette (works by Paik. Paik/Charlotte Moorman, Paul Ryan, Aldo Tambolini & others). Photography 2000 Photo Exhibitions Kuckucknest Galerie,Bambibar Nightgallery 1998 Photos in Neuer Berliner Kunstverein collection; 1998 One man show of limited edition photos, photocollages, & posters, Kunst/City Galerie, Berlin; 1992 24 >abstract impressionistic< photos in permanent collection, Quarterdeck Inc. RCA bldg., N.Y.C. 1991 10 >abstract impressionistic< photos in permanent collection, Kenneth Laub Real Estate, N.Y.C. 1990 Salmagundy invitational group show, N.Y.C. 1987 Wiener Secession, group show, Vienna; Film (16 mm) 1968 I’d Rather be Half Right than Vice President, color, sound, 5 min., St. Lawrence College-prize; 1967 The Ghost of Wittgenstein, color,sound,10 min.,scipt by prof. Ray Lucas, Foothills College-prize 1966 Lost in Cuddihy, color,sound, 13min. (60’s culture) National Student Assoc.-prize, MOMA archive; 1965 Peanut Butter on My Roof, (edited by David Brooks) color,sound, 10min., (voice of Andy Worhol); 1965 >IS< color silent loop, 6min.; >Hip Au Go Go<, b/w,sound, 4min. (dance party-Madison, Wisconsin) 1964 The Frantic Pedantic Semantic Antic, b/w & color, silent, 8min., (an absurdist, happening film); 1963 The Great Suds Your Suds Robbery, b/w, sound 3 min., (comedy) 1962 The File Cabinet of Dr. Saborin, b/w. silent, 3 min., (mad Scientist). Comic performance / happenings / perpertrations 1964 Leafmobile, fallen leaves (october) pasted (klebt) on ‘55 Chevrolet (except windows & chrome), we rode around Madison, Wisconsin, wearing hats with feathers, waving out the windows, 1959 Exam Stress, friend taking four, 3hr.exams in 2 days says he will pass out (unmächtig) after.In a large exam hall, he turns his exam in, returns to his seat & falls on the floor, people notice, at once two men in white labcoats with stretcher (Krankenträge) rush in & carry him out of the hall, amidst astonishment. 1959 Study Stress, in library shortly before exams, students study in large room, where books, specially for the exams may be read, but only taken out for 3 hrs. (We secretly place one of my books with 3 hr. sticker on the shelf.) Later, an accomplice takes that book to the check out counter, I rush in & rather loud say I must see the book for 5 min. My accomplice says no. We fight over the book / it rips in half, all are astonished. The librarian says we must pay. Each puts his half in a different return slot. As the librarian goes for the 2 book halves, we run out. We hear loud laughter. 1959 The Random Sonata, Chalk was thrown at a blackboard with music staves on it. Wherever the chalk hit a note was placed. The length of each note was determined by pulling a slip of paper out of a hat. Each slip had a different note length on it, e.g. 1/4, or 1/8, etc. Alvin Curran then played the >Random Sonata< on a piano of the music dept. at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 1958 Black Paintings, an artist, in white smock & beret appears on the Brown University college green. He begins painting a large canvas with a very fine brush & only black paint. After a few hours the canvas is totally black. Among those who gathered was Willoughby Sharp who asked the artist why he used such a small brush. The artist answered: >All painters select from the same colors & the same forms. It is only the brush stroke which differentiates the ordinary from the great painter<. In the weeks following the artist went on to paint, >The Annunciation<, >The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian<, >Madonna with Child< & more, all black. Grants & fellowships 2000-01 Zentrum für Kunst & Medientechnology Video restoration Grant 1993 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Berlin, Germany; 1978 National Endowment for the Arts; 1977 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; 1971 - 1976, grants from the Creative Artist Program, N.Y., N.Y. State Council on the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts. Print 2002 "Radical Software" in ARTFORUM-Mai 2001 N.Y.Times / Sunday Art Section 1/21/2001. 2000 Berliner Zeitung,Berliner Morgen Post 1997 chapter in >Kunst und Zeit<, ScanegVerlag, München, Von H.Paflik-Huber 1976 >Video Art, an Anthology<, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; N.Y., Co-editor with Beryl Korot; 1970-1974 Radical Software, Raindance Foundation, N.Y., Co-founder, Co-editor with Beryl Korot & Michael Shamberg. Teaching 2002 Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Gastprofessur. 1994 Akademie der Künste, Saarbrücken Seminar; 1980-1992, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, N.Y.C., Associate Professor; 1988-1992 Assistant Professor, 1980-1987; 1976-1980, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego; 1980 Visiting Artist, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin; 1974 Video Production, Lehman College, N.Y.