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TV Radiation Survey
Color television sets may be dangerous to your health.
On July 25, 1975, Ant Farm (Curtis Schreler, Chip Lord and Doug Michels) accompanied by Dr. Rlin Finston, Senior Health Physicist of Stanford University’s Health Physics Office, made random…
On July 25, 1975, Ant Farm (Curtis Schreler, Chip Lord and Doug Michels) accompanied by Dr. Rlin Finston, Senior Health Physicist of Stanford University’s Health Physics Office, made random…
Tricycle-Contemporary Recreation
Two performers wearing video camera headmounts and equipped with intercoms create two drawings on two gridded walls within a wedge shaped enclosure. Their markings are guided by a female director on the floor above them. She speaks in a code based on…
Odalisque
Dianne Blell confronted the infamous “topless” district of San Francisco and its standards of public morality with a painting of a nude torso on a billboard. It was made from a photograph which she had staged of a female in the classical…
Learning to Talk
I lived in a classroom as five different people, changing clothes everyday. A video camera monitored my events and projected the image to the next room.
Each day I made a three hour drawing as a different person.
I was silent during the…
Each day I made a three hour drawing as a different person.
I was silent during the…
Sacramento Meditations: Meditations on the Sacramento River, the Delta and the Bays at San Francisco
Performance, Graffiti, Billboards, and Posters. Commissioned by the Floating Museum of San Francisco and exhibited first at the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a three-museum show that also included street posters, billboards and…
Reconstruction of a Portion of the Sidewalk at 500 Capp Street
The first work that honored his identification of the ordinary as an idea for art was the repair of the sidewalk outside 500 Capp Street in 1976. His preparation of the site, mixing and pouring of concrete, and subsequent restoration of the sidewalk…
Social Experiment: The Avant Guard Security
In September 1975 President Gerald Fiord visited San Francisco. A few days before, “Manson Family” member, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme had attempted to assassinate him in Sacramento. For his protection San Francisco organized the…
Finger
This piece was a static installation. The room was in general darkness except for lights aimed at several areas in the space. An unidentifiable sound could be heard from the rear of the room. The first illuminated area approached upon entering the…
A Trance-Formation
For six hours a day and for six days, Nina Wise and I played drums in order to change our consciousness by means of sound. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Paradise regain'd Paradise lost
Paradise regain'dParadise lost
Paradise: lightDante's gainMilton's loss
I project my visions through the windowOf the dark room(the camera obscura)
inside - outinside - in
You enter the room- a progression ofstill color images &still ocean…