Picturephone performance [videorecording] / Nam June Paik ; edited by John Jebb. [1979]

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Picturephone performance [videorecording] / Nam June Paik ; edited by John Jebb. [1979]

This video documents Nam June Paik's Picturephone performance, held March 9, 1979, at the offices of AT&T in Los Angeles and New York, which were linked by satellite for two-way television transmission. The three-hour communications performance included artists Rita Carlyle, Shirley Clarke, Wendy Clarke, Peter Ivers, Gary Lloyd, Shigeko Kubota, Joan Logue, Bill Wegman, Al Robbins and jazz musician Earl Howard.

1 videocassette (U-Matic) (60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in. original (2 copies)1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. archival master.1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. copy master.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997

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Born in New York, Shirley Clarke first made waves as a dancer studying with modern choreographers like Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Doris Humphrey. In early short films, such as A Dance in the Sun (1953), Bullfight (1955), and Bridges Go Round (1958), she successfully fused her interests in choreography and cinema. Subsequent feature films The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1964), and Portrait of Jason (1967) were landmarks of independent cinema, charting an uncompromising path through con...

Robbins, Al, 1938-1987.

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Lloyd, Gary G.

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Wegman, William

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William Wegman (1943- ) is a photographer, New York, N.Y. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director, iCI; New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with William Wegman, 2008 Mar. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 226956609 ...

Carlyle, Rita, 1869-1949

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Jebb, John

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Howard, Earl

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Clarke, Wendy Mitman, 1962-

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Ivers, Peter

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Paik, Nam June

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Logue, Joan, 1942-

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Kubota, Shigeko 1937-

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