- Exhibition catalog
Buffalo Heads. Media Study. Media Practice. Media Pioneers.
1973–1990
Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel (Eds.)
2008
Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel (Eds.), »Buffalo Heads. Media Study. Media Practice. Media Pioneers.«, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008
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- Type of publication
- Exhibition catalog
- Author / Editor
- Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel (Eds.)
- Publishing house, place
- MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Physical Description
- 837 p. : chiefly ill.
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 978-0-262-72050-2
- Content
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo became one of these places of, teaching and mediating, in the area of Media Art, developing into what was perhaps to the most influential school for media in the twentieth century. Teaching there under the leadership of the founder Gerald O’Grady were the (meanwhile canonized) structuralist, avantgarde filmmakers Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, and Paul Sharits, documentary filmmaker James Blue, video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel.
Organization / Institution
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
