Co-presented with Visual Studies Workshop.

“This both at once, this being caught inside the illusion and this looking on nonetheless from without...”
—Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious

In a career spanning over four decades, video artist Peer Bode has created an extensive body of work that investigates electronic media events, active perception systems and culture. His earliest works were made at the Experimental Television Center in collaboration with engineer David Jones, whose “Jones Frame Buffer” became a signature processor within Bode’s oeuvre. This event will feature a selection of Bode’s “Process Tapes”, videotapes he made at the Experimental Television Center between 1977-83. Video switchers, test signals, and synthetic colors run amok.

Video works that have been exhibited and are currently in distribution will be presented along with recently digitized videotapes from the artists’ archive, which have never been shown publicly. Moderated by Tara Nelson, Curator of Visual Studies Workshop where Bode’s tapes have been preserved, this event will be presented as a live dialogue between the artist, his archive and the audience.

Works include:
Front Hand Back Hand (1977)
Cup Mix (2 Channels) (1977)
Camel with Window Memory (1983)
Vibratory Sweep (1978)
Video Locomotion (1978)
Music on Triggering Surfaces (1978)