In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental...
In this video of an ad-hoc performance, Skip Blumberg shouts the word “money” at passersby on Prince Street in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood. As the crew attempts to mollify concerned police officers, the video becomes an early document of the establishment’s response to video cameras in...
Skip Blumberg's film Pick Up Your Feet, The Double Dutch Show. This film first aired in 1981, on Channel 13 in New York. This film takes place at the Lincoln center (Fountain Plaza) in New York City. Skip Blumberg was always interested in motion including dance and the circus. He was selected as an...
Gil Scott-Heron: Why Revolution won't be Televised
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Gil Scott-Heron goes to the deepest and most personal goal of the activist to clear up the message of his hit 1970 song... the first revolution takes place in your mind. [Overview Courtesy of Skip's Classic Vids]
A wonderful and humorous example of early image processing, Parry Teasdale and Carol Vontobel perform to camera as their faces are morphed together, forming an image of one person. The exercise is repeated by Nancy Cain and Skip Blumberg as the music speeds up.
In JGLNG, Blumberg achieves a graphic visual composition that cunningly encircles both abstraction and documentation. With an economy of means, he renders the ordinary extraordinary, superimposing two recorded images of a single event -- a juggler juggling.
Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent video artists, all commissioned to the state of Minnesota.
This entertaining collaboration between Skip Blumberg and Jules Backus showcases award-winning whistling performances at the First International Whistling Festival in Carson City, Nevada. The small video cameras and informal style of the makers brings the viewer up close to these eccentric but...
