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- "Red Tape", featuring five short videos by American video art pioneer Bill Viola, is the artist's first of several collections of short pieces that function thematically as larger "meta-works."
- An attempt to stare down the self.
- The artist's face, visible only as a reflected image on the surface of a cup of black coffee, slowly disappears as he consumes the coffee. The artist describes this action as "the eradication of the individual by self-consumption".
- The artist moves toward the camera/viewer, pausing every few steps to ring a bell, at which point he is momentarily thrust back to his starting place, and then advanced again.
- The expression "semi-circular canal" refers to the portion of the human ear that regulates balance. Bill Viola constructed a platform on which he and the recording equipment counterbalanced one another, while freely suspended from a large tree. The artist appears to be sitting calmly at the center of the universe as the earth rotates.
- "Junkyard Levitation" is a visual pun on the concept of "mind over matter," as a man attempts to levitate while lying prone in a junkyard.
- A drop of water emerging from a small brass valve is magnified by a video camera and projected on a large screen. The close-up image reveals that the viewer and part of the room where they stand are visible inside each forming drop.
- Presents a succession of images of the moment of impact of violent acts of destruction, in a darkened studio, visible only as discrete individual video frames revealed by an electronic photoflash.
- "Songs of Innocence", which directly references the visionary romanticism of William Blake, is haunted with symbolic transformations, as shifting light is charted through the passage of a day. Images of children singing on a school lawn dissolve and reappear, hovering at the edge of perception, illusion and reality, evoking what Bill Viola terms "a visual relationship between memory, the setting of the sun, and death."
- Experimental video installation, produced at Syracuse Video Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, featuring live black-and-white, close-circuit video projection on free-standing half wall.
- Experimental audio/video installation, produced at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, featuring bank of four black-and-white monitors and two cameras in closed-circuit system with feedback and delay; amplified floor.
- Collected works videotape featuring three short videos shot by artist Bill Viola during the Summer of 1974 at Synapse Video Center in Syracuse, NY: Instant Breakfast (1974), Olfaction (1974), and Recycle (1974).
- Experimental audio/video installation, produced at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, featuring live video and audio interchange between two indoor locations through two-way, black-and-white, cable television system.
- Bill Viola's first color videotape, "Vidicon Burns" was completed in 1973 at the Synapse Video Center at Syracuse University, New York, with the collaboration of Bob Burns. These are collected excerpts from 30-minute original videotape.
- Bill Viola's first experimental videotape, "Wild Horses" was completed in 1972 at the Synapse Video Center at Syracuse University, New York, with the collaboration of Marge Monroe. The result is recorded in black-and-white video with mono sound, and is mastered on a 15-minute 1/2 inch open-reel tape.
- An exercise in technological reflexivity, conceived as an early investigation of the material presence of the electronic medium, where a videotape recorder tries to record itself following a technical miscalculation.
- Bill Viola's color videotape "Polaroid Video Stills" was completed in 1973 at the Synapse Video Center at Syracuse University, New York, and recorded in mono sound. These are collected excerpts from a 10-minute original videotape.
- Seating in an armchair against a stark background, the artist stares at the camera, his silence punctuated by screams. The camera pulls back to show he's at the end of a long hallway, and rapidly zooms again into the inside of his mouth .
- Two sequences of distortions, one human and physical, the other electronic and visual, are presented in succession.
- Three abrupt and violent actions are seized and suspended in time by video disc memory. Tension is held and violently released. The video refers to Carl Jung's writings on the individual and the mass.
- Live broadcast in a small, private room at Synapse Video Center (Syracuse, NY) with black-and-white videotape-delay system using 2 monitors and one camera. The result is recorded in mono and mastered on a 20-minute 1/2 inch open-reel tape.
- Live black-and-white video projection of a composite image mixed from three cameras (two on automatic-scanning motors), with three heterodyning sine tones.