[Frameworks] Video works unviewable due to lost apparatus?

[Beebe, Roger]

One of my grad students, Marina Hassapopoulou, has just finished a dissertation about Interactive Cinema, where she talks extensively about such lost works and also about the problems of "remediation" (representation of these works in forms and on platforms other than the original).  She traces the history of IC starting in the 50s and 60s and reconstructs what she can from the documents available about these works and their presentation.  It's all very interesting stuff.

Another former student who might prefer to remain nameless was talking about the situation of digital works that had been acquired by MoMA.  Apparently they only collected the media (like DVD-ROMs) and didn't have the foresight to think about the hardware and software necessary to play them back.  Not sure what kind of progress they're making on creating emulators or digging up the original technology since she told me about this several years ago, but it is an interesting (and obvious) dilemma.

Isn't this why we on this list are making works on super 8mm and 16mm?  No worries about my 40-year-old projectors suddenly being incompatible with my prints...

R.

On May 15, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Andy Ditzler wrote:

See Callie Angell's article on Warhol's "Inner and Outer Space" in "From Stills to Motion and Back Again," published by Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver. The Warhol videos were done in 1965 on a Norelco "slant-scan" machine, which no longer exists and apparently cannot be found. (There weren't many made.)

As Callie points out in a footnote, "Inner and Outer Space" (a 16mm film in which some of these videos are seen playing on a monitor) is now the best preservation of any of those videos. She also mentions something I hadn't noticed before - that excerpts from these videos were played as part of a show at the Whitney in 1991. I'm not sure how that was done - perhaps there was still a machine available at the time?

Warhol made several of these videos during the time he had the recorder, but I'm not aware of any documentation of what was actually on most of them. Besides the Edie Sedgwick tapes, the only other one of which I'm aware is a haircut video done with Billy Name. Various articles by Callie Angell in other publications mention the tapes as well.

Andy Ditzler



On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Lundgren <50lundgren at telia.com<mailto:50lundgren at telia.com>> wrote:
I know that once on this list somebody mentioned that there was a Andy Warhol work that was done on a video system which had no surviving video players. I've tried to search the list unable to find any information. Does anyone know of this and have a decent (preferable academically scrutinize-able) source for it?

Or those anyone have examples of other famous artist with video works (or similair) "lost" due to the fact that we don't have any machines to watch it anymore?

Björn Lundgren
Sweden

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