California Video
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008
Featuring Learn Where the Meet Comes From
This exhibition reveals the variety of artistic experimentation that has occurred in the video medium throughout California over the last 40 years. While portable video is ubiquitous today, in the late 1960s and 1970s it was a new technology. Visual artists were among the first to experiment with video, and many saw the new medium as a revolutionary tool that could alter the way art was made and distributed. They began using it in a variety of ways—as an abstract electronic canvas, as sculpture, as an extension of live performance, and as a vital form of political art. These early approaches to video differ greatly from one another, but they also share some important traits, foremost of which is a desire to produce something utterly unlike commercial television and film.
Curated by Glenn Phillips
Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum.