Artwork Series 1. 1973-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
"As the worm turns"
Research and production files circa 1975-circa 1995
Video recorded raw material circa 1975-circa 1995.
Video recorded mastered material circa 1975-circa 1995
Performance and exhibit files
Miscellaneous 1985-1995
Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Morro Bay 1987
Sushi, San Diego 1985
Theory and flesh (1986), transcript of performance 1986
"Atlantis' soundtrack"
Audio recorded material 1973
Filmed material 1973
"The Brain (enigmatic contrivances)," with Marlene Alt and Tracy Edling
Research and production files circa 1984.
Video recorded material 1984
Performance and exhibit files
Society for Photographic Education west regional conference, San Francisco 1986
Works, San Jose 1987
"Casanova," research and production file undated
"Chained reactions," with Barbara Latham
Research and production file 1986
Video recorded material 1982-1983
Video recorded mastered material 1982
Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material circa 1982-circa 1983
Performance and exhibit file, miscellaneous 1983-1996
Oversize material 1987
Media Gallery, San Francisco 1987-1988
"Diderot and the last luminaire," S.I.T.E. Gallery, Los Angeles performance and exhibit file 1994
"Duel/duet," with Joanna Frueh
Performance and exhibit files
Miscellaneous 1990
Opening the circle of identities, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago 1989
Women's Caucus for Art national conference, New York 1990
Erotic faculties (1996), transcript of performance 1996
"Entropic pursuits: the infinite regress of the doppelganger"
Audio and video recorded material
Audio recorded material circa 1980-circa 1989
Video recorded mastered material and duplicate copies circa 1980-circa 1989
Performance and exhibit files
Oversize material 1978-1980
New Video and Performance Art in Detroit, Detroit Institute of the Arts 1979
"Faction," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco performance and exhibit file 1988
"Falan your knees, Louise," Chicago Filmmakers performance and exhibit file 1979
Video recorded material 1979
Audio recorded material circa 1981
Video recorded material 1981
"Flaming Rose improvisations with Barbara Latham," video recorded material circa 1981
"Flaming Rose's debut and diary experiment," video recorded material circa 1981
"A Germ of truth"
Research and production files 1988.
Performance and exhibit files
National Association of Artists' Organizations conference, Los Angeles 1987-1988
Oversize material 1987
S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco 1988
Acts (1996), transcript of performance 1996
"Grafting tentacles on the octopussy"
Lusitania (1994), text of exhibit 1994
"Having a wonderful time, wish we were here," The School of the Art Institute of Chicago performance and exhibit file circa 1975-circa 1985
"I did it for love," Dropped lines exhibit, Seneca Falls Gallery, San Diego performance and exhibit file 1983
Oversize material 1983
"I was raped by a swan, or God made me pregnant," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago performance and exhibit file circa 1975-circa 1985
Video recorded mastered and duplicated material circa 1975-circa 1985
Audio recorded material 1977
"Mama dada, dada dada," with Wendy Geller and Ruth Wallen
Research and production files 1981-1984
Video recorded duplicated material 1976
Video recorded mastered material circa 1976-circa 1978
Miscellaneous artwork and projects
Audio recorded material
Miscellaneous circa 1975-circa 1995
Orpheus or X-mas circa 1975-circa 1995
Richard Foreman circa 1975-circa 1995
Unidentified circa 1975-circa 1995
Note cards circa 1975-circa 1995
Scrapbooks 1975-1977
Scripts, drafts, and research materials 1975
Oversize material circa 1975-circa 1995.
Video recorded material
First week of using camera circa 1975-circa 1995
New video and performance art in Detroit, third performance, Detroit Institute of the Arts 1979.
Performance sampler for Detroit circa 1975-circa 1995
Processing of objects from grandfather's house circa 1981
Miscellaneous performance and exhibit files
1976-1997
Oversize material circa 1976-1981
"Mistaken identities"
Research and production files 1995
CD-ROM materials and user's guide 1995
CD-ROM 1995
Performance and exhibit files
Cynema: an interactive playground, 5th Brisbane International Film Festival 1996
Florida Art Center, Ground Level Gallery 1995
Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville 1996
I.S.E.A. 96, International symposium on electronic art, Rotterdam 1996.
Oversize material, 1996.
Mill Valley new media/videofest 1997
Miscellaneous 1995-1997
Moveable feast, S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco 1996
New York exposition of short film and video 1996
Oversize material 1996
S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '96, New Orleans, CD-ROM materials and user's guide 1995-1996
Tech.no site, Rike Gallery, University of Dayton, Ohio 1996
Techno-seduction, Cooper Union, New York 1996-1997
Virtual female, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco 1995
Oversize material 1995
Visual arts faculty exhibition, with Kate Kretz, University Art Museum, Florida International University 1996
World wide video festival, The Hague 1996
Leonardo (1997), article 1997
"My cable release film," research and production files
Audio recorded material 1976
Filmed material 1976
"My life in the avant garde," research and production file and Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco performance and exhibit file 1991
Audio recorded material circa 1991
"Paracritical cannabalism"
Research and production file circa 1991-circa 1992
Performance and exhibit files
Berkeley Art Center 1991-1992
Oversize material 1993
"Pathetic fallacy," with Richard Horner
Research and production file, video recorded master copy 1980
Performance and exhibit files
Dropped lines, Seneca Falls Gallery, San Diego 1983
Oversize material 1983
Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material circa 1980-circa 1986
Works from Chicago, Experimental Video Studio, Art Institute of Chicago screening 1981
"A Personal history of the female body"
Research and production file circa 1989-circa 1992
Performance and exhibit files
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco 1989-1990
Miscellaneous 1990-1991
Video recorded material 1978
"Robbing the image bank"
Projections in public, San Francisco performance and exhibit file 1994
"Roman à clef"
Research and production files
Video recorded duplicated material 1977
Video recorded mastered material 1977
Performance and exhibit files
Chicago Filmmakers circa 1976
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1 cloth poster with holograph announcement and 1 color photographic print 1977
"Secret museum," filmed material circa 1975-circa 1995
"A sentimental story," filmed material circa 1975-circa 1995
"She loves it, she loves it not"
Research and production files circa 1992-1993
CD-ROM materials and user's guide 1993
CD-ROM 1993
Performance and exhibit files
Computer disk materials and user's guide 1996
ARS 95, International symposium on electronic art, Helsinki 1994-1995
CD-ROM materials and user's guide 1993
The Art of multimedia, University Art Gallery, Cal State Hayward 1994
Call of the wild, Walter Phillips Gallery 1995
College Art Association 83rd annual conference, San Antonio 1994-1995
Convergence: 5th biennial symposium of arts & technology, Connecticut College, New London 1994-1995
Desmitificacions, Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo, Spain 1995
Digital identities, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno 1994-1995
The Digital village, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park 1995
4 Cyberconf, Banff Centre, Alberta 1994
Gender and technology, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University 1994-1995
Hand in place: five new artists in Miami, Miami Dade Community College Centre Gallery 1995
Hypertext, Writing and community series, Poetry Center, San Francisco 1994
I.S.E.A. 94, International symposium on electronic art, Helsinki 1994
The Illustrated woman: the second annual conference on feminist activism and art, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco circa 1992-circa 1995
Information superhighway, Downey Museum of Art 1995
Inter-active, Works/San Jose 1994
Miscellaneous
1991-1994
1995-1997
Oversize material, 1996.
circa 1991-circa 1997
Oversize material circa 1991-circa 1997
Multimedia playground, Exploratorium, San Francisco 1994
New voices, new visions competition, New York 1994-1995
CD-ROM materials and user's guide 1995
Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley 1994
Persistent dispositions, technetronic identities, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia 1994-1995
Seduced and abandoned: the body in the virtual world, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1994
Veered science, Huntington Beach Art Center 1995
Women in the directors chair, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1996
Processed lives: gender and technology in everyday life (1997) 1997
Suffragettes to she-devils: women's liberation and beyond (1997) 1995-1997
"Someday my prince will come," filmed material circa 1975-circa 1995
Audio recorded material, Dan Daniel A.S.U.L. video class comments 1990
Video recorded mastered and raw material 1989
"The Thaumatrope," with John Van Wagner
Research and production file circa 1982
Video recorded material circa 1982
Video recorded material 1982
"Touch the picture to hear a message about safer sex," printed digital scan in frame with battery-operated speaker 1997
Video recorded material circa 1979
"A Video letter from Christine Tamblyn," video recorded material 1988
"A Video sampler," with John Manning
Research and production files, video recorded material 1976
Performance and exhibit files
Chicago Filmmakers circa 1977
Electronic activity under art surveillance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago circa 1976
"Warren writing," research and production files
Video recorded mastered material 1983
Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material circa 1983
"Wishing well lounge," group show
Research and production file circa 1992
"Yours truly, S.A.," with Ellen Zweig, Galerie H, Smirice, Czechoslovakia performance and exhibit file 1991-1992
Personal and biographical files Series 2. 1967-1998
Series Scope and Content Summary
Autobiography, audio recorded material undated
Curriculum vitae and professional biography 1982-1997
Journals and diaries 1968-1992
Audio recorded material 1974
Notes on personal artwork circa 1981
Posthumously collected materials
Archival quality, Los Angeles Center for Performing Arts exhibit materials 1998
CD-ROM materials and user's guide 1998
Correspondence 1998
Memorial and tribute 1998
Obituaries and reflections on Tamblyn
Selby, Judith. Cascade of lamentation 1998
Student stories 1998
Academic files Series 3. 1973-1996
Series Scope and Content Summary
Student files Subseries 3.1. 1973-1986
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.F.A. program application
Portfolio 1973
Statement on works circa 1977
Course materials
Film aesthetics course circa 1975
"A Greeting card from the second circle," course paper 1975
Notebooks 1974-circa 1976
Unidentified, course materials 1974
University of California, Berkeley Rhetoric 254, course materials 1985-1986
University of California, San Diego
Course materials
Notebook circa 1984-circa 1985
Performance art panel questions circa 1984-circa 1985
Rhetoric 121A 1985
Visual Arts 71 1985
Visual Arts 290 1985
Visual Arts 298, "Images and text" 1984
First year review paper circa 1982-circa 1985
M.F.A. program application and course applications 1982
Teaching files Subseries 3.2. 1978-1996
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Florida International University
Course evaluations 1994-1996
Course materials
Art 3820, Visual thinking, course materials 1996
Art 4681, Electronic media arts, syllabus circa 1994-circa 1996
Art 4681, Time arts, course materials 1996
Art 4952C, Thesis I, course materials 1996
Examples of students' works. Definitions anthology.
1994
circa 1994-circa 1996
Video Art course, Telezine project for Cable-T.A.P. television series 1994-1995
Faculty evaluation 1995
Report on Time Arts course specialization and letter of resignation 1995-1996
Mills College, Art History 138, Contemporary art, syllabus 1990
San Francisco Art Institute
Art 218, gallery show
Art History 240.2, Graduate theory and criticism, course evaluations 1988
Theorizing multi-cultural and political art, course proposal 1990
San Francisco State University
Awards and contracts 1989-1992
Course materials
Course evaluations 1986-1992
CTEA 730-731, Intersections, syllabi circa 1986-circa 1992
CTEA 733, Intersections, syllabus circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 315, New directions in arts and self and other, syllabi circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 320, Contemporary writing on the arts and Review and criticism of the arts, syllabi circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 700
First class 1989
First through sixth classes 1989
Sixth class 1989
IAC 707, Collaborative processes in the arts, syllabus circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 710, Art as experience and Inter-Arts theory and criticism, syllabi circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 720, Alternative documentary forms, syllabus circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 733, examples of students' works circa 1986-circa 1992
IAC 850, course handouts circa 1986-circa 1992
Technology, art, and culture, syllabus 1992
Employee materials 1989
Faculty evaluations 1991-1993
Faculty interview circa 1986-circa 1992
Memoranda, course proposals, and reports 1986-1991
Statement of research and teaching interest circa 1986-circa 1992
School of the Art Institute of Chicago course materials
Video extensions: performance 1978
Video production 1978-1979
Visiting artist arrangement for John Sturgeon 1978
Young artists' studio video 1978-1979
University of California, Berkeley
Examples of students' works
Filmed material 1991
Art 141, Temporal structures
Final performances 1990
Syllabus 1991
University of California, Irvine, ArtsBridge N.E.H. grant proposal 1996
University of California, San Diego course materials
VA 71, Introduction to media, syllabus and notes 1984-1985
Writings Series 4. 1962-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
By Tamblyn Subseries 4.1. 1962-1997
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Addressing herself: female sexuality, self-representation, transformation (1994), catalog for exhibit at The Lab, San Francisco 1994
"All over the place," New art examiner (1977), review of exhibit at Moming, Chicago 1977
"Am I in the picture/are pictures in me: Michael Smith and William Wegman's The World of photography," SF Camerawork (1987), review 1987
"Ambiguities and associations," Artweek (1986), review of works by John Baldessari 1986
"Armand Schwerner and Ellen Zweig, 'Everything you're giving me is just things you're giving me'," High performance (1987), review 1987
"Art historians go to the movies," Afterimage (1985), article 1985
"Backward looks at nature," Artweek (1988), review of works by Mark Thompson and Gina Lamb 1987-1988
"Barbara Latham, 1947-1984," Afterimage (1984), obituary 1984
"Barbara Latham, 1947-1984," The Independent (1984), obituary 1984
Oversize material 1984
"Bay Area figurative art, 1950-1965," Art news (1990), review of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit 1990
"Benjamin Sarao" (1976), review 1976
"Berkeley: freshness, surprise, and horror," Art news (1991), review of University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley exhibit 1991
"Between Charybdis and Scylla: a correspondence about alternative media (with Helen De Michiel)," Cinematograph (1991), article 1991
"Black and white," VAD (UCSD Visual Arts Department) (1983), article 1983
"Blasted allegories," Afterimage (1988), book review 1988
"Border art workshop/Taller de arte fronterica," Shift (1989), interview with Guillermo Gomez Peña and Robert Sánchez 1989
Audio recorded material circa 1989
"Boundaries and milestones: Video culture: a critical investigation," Artweek (1987), book review 1987
"The Brain," Theory & flesh (1986), article 1986
"Bridging art and broadcast: American Film Institute's 'New works' series," Artweek (1989), review 1989
"A brief history of performance," New art examiner (1977), article 1977
Audio recorded material circa 1977
"Carlos Loarca," Art news (1989), review 1982-1989
"Carrie Lederer/Five Bay Area sculptors" Art news (1989), review 1985-1987
"Charles Fahlen/Louis Peck," New art examiner (1979), review 1979
"The Chicago and vicinity show," New art examiner (1981), review 1981
"Chicago artists perform," New art examiner, (1979), review 1979
Oversize material 1979
"Christopher Brown," Art news (1990), review 1980-1990
Cinematograph (1988), marginality and filmmaking theme issue edited by Tamblyn 1986-1989
"Confessions of a feminist pedagogue," Exposure (1991), article 1990-1991
"Co-opting the context," Artweek (1987), review of works by Tony Labat 1987
"Cybernetic technologies: neither utopian templates nor dystopian harbingers," Techno/logical imagination: machines in the garden of art (1989), book chapter 1989
"Darryl Sapien," Art news (1988), review 1988
"David Anderson/Susan Schimke," Art news (1994), review 1994
"David Ireland," Art news (1989), review 1989
"Demilitarized zone in Chicago video," New art examiner (1978), review of Chicago Editing Center 1978
"Designer video: the A.F.I. National Video Festival," Afterimage (1984), review 1984
"Diamonds in the rough: Video Refuses Festival," Shift (1988), review 1988
Oversize material 1988
"Digital photography: Captured Images/Volatile Memory/New Montage at S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco," CEPA journal (1989), review 1988-1989
"Disorders of the real," High performance (1989), book review 1989
"Dream text," Theory & flesh (1986), article 1986
"Electronic art pioneers," The Independent (1993), review of works by Daniel Sandin, Robert Snyder, and John Manning 1993
"Endangered species," Chimaera (1992), book chapter, review of works by Lynn Hershman-Leeson 1992
"The eye of the beholder," Artweek (1987), review of works by Alan Rath 1987
"The Function of the arts in culture today," High performance, article circa 1975/circa 1995
"A Fusing of cultures," Artweek (1988), review of works by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger 1988
"Gift every day," The Act (1990), article 1989-1990
"Guerilla television or 'Get the guests'? Godard TV debut at Pacific Film Archives," Video Networks (1986), review 1986
"The Hair of the dog that bit us," New feminist criticism: art, identity, action (1994), book chapter 1990-1994
"A History of mistakes," Artweek (1987), review of works by Jeanne Finley 1987
"Hotel California: the 1985 San Francisco International Video Festival," Afterimage (1985), review 1981-1986.
"Hung Liu: 'Reading room, 'Resident alien'," High performance (1988), review 1987-1988
"Hybridized art/Bay Area performance: A critical sketch," Artweek (1990), article 1990
"Ilona Granet," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Image processing in Chicago video art, 1970-1980," Leonardo (1991), article 1988-1991
"Images of manipulation," Artweek (1986), review of works by Barbara DeGenevieve, Ann Wulff, and Lutz Bacher 1972-1988
"Interactions with shoes," Artweek (1986), review of works by Sonya Rapoport 1986
"Introductions '88," Art news (1988), review of works by Enrique Chagoya, Frank Cole, and Jane Degenhardt Kutzer 1988
"James Grigsby," New art examiner (1978), review 1978
"James Morris," Art news (1990), review 1989-1990
"Jeffrey Deutsch," New art examiner (1976), review 1976
"Jim Pomeroy," (1986), catalog essay for New Langton Arts, San Francisco 1986
"Joe Sam," Art news (1987), review 1987
"John Baldessari," Art news (1990), review 1990
"John White," New art examiner (1978), review 1978
"Joyan Saunders," Blackflash (1987), review 1983-1987
"Ken Kashian," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Laurie Anderson," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Lynn Hershman," Art news (1990), review 1990
"Lynn Hershman's narrative anti-narratives," Afterimage (1986), review 1986
"Machine dreams," Afterimage (1988), review of Digital Photography: Captured Imagery/Volatile Memory/New Montage exhibit at S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco 1988
"Made in U.S.A.," Art News (1987), review of works at University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley 1987
"Manifestations of thought: the Borofsky exhibition," U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly Newsletter (1985), review 1985
"Mark Durant's 'Displaced persons'" (1988), essay for exhibit at X.S. Gallery, Western Nevada Community College 1987-1988
Oversize material 1987
"Mary Lucier," High performance (1986), review 1986
"Mary Ahrendt and Leslie Wolfe" (1979), review 1979
"Mary Jane Dougherty, Shirley Federow, Helene Fine, Peg Griffith, Margaret Phillips, Ellie Specht," New art examiner (1976), review 1976
"Merce Cunningham," Scan (1982), review 1982
"Meredeth Monk," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Meridel Rubenstein and Gregory Mahoney," Art news (1988), review 1987-1988.
Oversize material 1988
"Michael McClard" New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Michael Smith," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"The Mill Valley Festival," Artweek (1985), review 1985
"Miro Svolik," Art News (1989), review 1989
"Monitoring the vital signs: the American Film Institute Video Festival," Visions (1991), review 1990-1991
Oversize material 1990
"Multiple identities," The Independent (1994), article 1993-1994.
Oversize material circa 1993-circa 1994
"Nathan Oliveira," Art news (1988), review 1962-1987.
"New approches to feminist theory," High performance (1987), article 1985-1987
New art examiner, reviews 1976-1979
"No more nice girls: recent transgressive feminist art," C.A.A. Journal (1991), article 1988-1990
Oversize material circa 1988-circa 1990
"Paul Pratchenko," Art news (1989), review 1986-1989.
"Pegan Brooke," Art news (1987), review 1987
Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death (2000), book chapter 1991-1992
"Performance: déjà vu" (1977), essay for Performance/Midway exhibit at Midway Studios, Chicago 1977
"Performance: déjà vu," New art examiner (1977), review of works at Midway Studios, Chicago 1977
"The Photographer's progress," Artweek (1986), review of works by Judy Dater 1983-1986
"Poses and positions," Artweek (1987), review of works by Robert Mapplethorpe 1981-1987.
Oversize material 1983
Prose pieces
In due season (1976) 1976
One and done (1976) 1976
"Qualifying the quotidian: artist's video and the production of social space," Resolutions: contemporary video practices (1996), book chapter 1996
"A Question of timing," Artweek (1988), review of Sexual difference: both sides of the camera exhibit at New Langton Arts, San Francisco 1987-1988
R.F. Buckley (1995), catalog for exhibit at Florida International University Art Museum 1995
"Reaching out to the unknown," Artweek (1986), review of works by Dorit Cypis, Leeny Sack, Leslie Thornton, and Ellen Zweig 1986
"Reading between the lines," Afterimage (1987), review of Video and language: video as language exhibit at L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) 1986-1987
"Real grumblings and pseudo-science," Artweek (1986), review of works by Jim Pomeroy 1986
"Real grumblings and pseudo-science: a holo-grammatological augmentation," For a burning world is come to dance inane: essays by and about Jim Pomeroy (1993), book chapter 1993.
"Reinventing the comic book," Artweek (1987), review of works by Minette Lehmann 1987
Oversize material 1987
"Remote control: the electronic transference," Processed lives: gender and technology in everyday life (1997), book chapter 1993-1997
"Richard Horner" (1986), review 1986
"Riddles and evocations," Artweek (1985), review of works by Dan Ake and Gordon Holler 1985
"A ritual for bells," Artweek (1986), review of works by Paul Kos 1986
"Robert McCauley," Art news (1988), review 1988
"Rupert Garcia/Christopher Lane," Art news (1988), review 1988
San Francisco Art Institute 111th Annual Exhibition (1992), catalog essay 1992
"Sebastião Salgado," Art news (1991), review 1990-1991
Sex with strangers: some of the things at stake in women's struggles (1986), with Lutz Bacher, book 1986
Oversize material
"Shu Lea Cheang: the airwaves Project," High performance (1991), review 1991
"Skip Sweeney," High performance (1986), review 1986
"Space invaders: a postmodern paradigm for video installations," Intermedia Arts Minnesota: Jerome Media Arts installations (1987), catalog essay 1987
"Spectacular visions: video art," Yesterday and tomorrow: California women artists (1989), book chapter 1988-1989
"Stage presence: sculpture as used in performance," High performance (1986), review of exhibit at San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery 1986
"Structuralist filmmakers," New art examiner (1977), review of works at Chicago Filmmakers Summer Series 1977
Audio recorded material circa 1977
"Su-Chen Hung: 'Sweet red 1'," High performance (1987), review 1987
Oversize material 1982
"Susan Shaw," Art news (1988), review 1988
"Suzanne Lacy, Jared Bark, Scott Burton, John Hassell," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Sylvia Lark," Art news (1988), review 1984-1988
"Sylvia Lark: abstracting radiance" (1991), memorial address 1991
"T.V. Guide: Transmission: theory and practice for a new television aesthetics," Afterimage (1986), book review 1985-1986
"Technopop: Victor Landweber, Max Almy/Two personal commentaries on American life," Afterimage (1985), review 1982-1985
"Tom Jaremba," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"This property has been repossessed," Framework (1989), review of works by John Adams, 1989
"Third Electronic Visualization Event (First National Bank Auditorium, Chicago)," New art examiner (1978), review 1978
"Three views of families," Artweek (1985), review 1985
"To live and die in L.A.," Afterimage (1988), review of American Film Institute Video Festival, 1988
"Tony Oursler/Wendy Clarke," Art notes (1981), review 1981-1982
Tour de force: the journal of the French pastry path to enlightenment (1974-1975), journal edited and published by Tamblyn 1974-1975
"True confessions of a techno-junkie," Talkback (1995), article 1995
Unpublished works and publication projects
Analysis and passion: photography engages social and political issues, review of works by Judith Crawley, Maureen McKeon, and Carrie Mae Weems circa 1975-circa 1995
Bill Burke: ledgers of transience, review circa 1975-circa 1995
Oversize material 1987
Erotics of computer art, article circa 1975-circa 1995
Evaluation of Michael McManus' Video and the literary imagination, book review circa 1975-circa 1995
Festival of New Arts, San Diego, review of works by Karen Finley and Harry Kipper 1983
History of the Art Institute of Chicago, article 1979-1982
Audio recorded material circa 1977
Micro-politics and new genres in video and performance art of the 1980's, book project 1989
Miscellaneous typescript and holograph reviews circa 1977
New Canadian Narrative video exhibit, review circa 1988
Richard Bolton, review circa 1990
Robert Snyder, review 1984-1988
Soft intelligence: electronic subjectivities and performance, book project 1994
Untitled Gallery, San Francisco exhibit, review 1991
Video Free America, San Francisco exhibit, review circa 1975-circa 1995
"Useless tools: the hybrid sculpture of Alan Rath," Alan Rath (1992), catalog essay 1991-1992
"Van Deren Coke," Art news (1988), review 1988
"Victor Burgin's Office at night and Allan Sekula's Geography lesson: Canadian notes," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (1987), review 1987
"Video art: an historical sketch," High performance (1987), article 1987
"Video art: an historical sketch," Media U.S.A.: process and effect (1991), book chapter 1991
"Video art, ethics, and television," Ethique & television (1988), catalog essay for 4th International Video Festival, Montebeliard, France 1988
"Video criticism: paradigms and parasites," Media arts (1990), article 1990
"The Video Data Bank" (1981), program notes for the Video/Diary show at The School of the Art Institute Film Center, Chicago 1981
"Video roundup," New art examiner (1976), review of works by Annette Barbier, Denise Kunkel, and Catherine de Jong 1976
"Voyages of the mind," Artweek (1987), review of works by Steve Fagin 1987
"Whose life is it, anyway?," Afterimage (1987), review of works by Leslie Thornton, Woody Vasulka, Steve Fagin, and Ellen Zweig 1987
Oversize material circa 1987
"William Allan," Art news (1987), review 1987
"William Wiley," New art examiner (1977), review 1977
"Willy Heeks," New art examiner (1979), review 1979
"Women recording themselves," Artweek (1988), review of Personal Histories exhibit at Through the Flower Gallery, Benicia 1984-1988
"You can never go home again: Jeanne Finley's Nomads at the 25 door," Video networks (1992), review 1991-1992
About Tamblyn, Subseries 4.2. 1978-1997
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
1978-1981
1982-1987
1988-1989
1991
1992-1994
1995-1997
Interview, interlocutors unidentified circa 1975-circa 1995
Professional files Series 5. 1978-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
Awards
Awards in the Visual Arts national artists award 1988
Festival internacional de la imagen, Manizales, Columbia 1997
Conference and professional meeting files
1978, Women's perspectives on performance art, panelist, Mid-America College Art Association 42nd annual conference 1978
1980, Women's art: speculating about the future, panelist, Women and Children First, Chicago 1980
1981, Teaching performance art in an art school and university setting, Mid-America College Art Association 45th annual conference 1981
1985, After Orwell, Sushi, San Diego 1985
Oversize material 1985
1986
Ex(centric) lady travellers, moderator, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, audio recorded material 1986.
Performance art and experimental theater, panelist, San Francisco State University 1986
1987
Locally under-rated, nationally over-rated, panelist, Richmond Art Center, CA 1987.
New works, panelist, American Film Institute national video festival, Los Angeles 1987
An Overview of California women's video and performance art, presenter, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies 1987
1988
Conceptual, how you've changed, panelist, Bay Area Consortium for the Visual Arts, San Francisco 1988
Postmodern vocabulary, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute summer art writing conference 1988.
Re-visionary film: fantasy scenarios, moderator, Cinematheque/Cinematograph, San Francisco 1988
The Way we look, the way we see: art criticism for women in the '90s, panelist, University of California, Los Angeles 1987-1988
1989
Changes in women's art issues, 1970-1990, panelist, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland 1989
Criticism: as rhetoric, as cult identity, as social practice, panelist, Small Press Distribution Company, Berkeley 1988-1989
Critics' roundtable, panelist, City of Oakland 1989
Developing media criticism, panelist, National Alliance of Media Art Centers conference, Rochester, NY 1989
Audio recorded material 1989
New forms of expression: video diaries from literature to electronics, panelist, New American Makers, San Francisco 1989
Other disciplines, other forms, moderator, San Francisco Art Institute summer art writing conference 1989
Plugging into the matrix, technology and art in a virtual society, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco 1989
Sexual representation and feminist transgression in film, video, and photography, moderator, Society for Photographic Education national conference 1985-1989.
Oversize material 1986
The Spiritual in California art: pro and con, panelist, College Art Association 77th annual meeting, San Francisco 1989
The Technological imagination: machines in the garden of art, panelist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design 1989-1990
Oversize material 1989
The Video art potential, panelist, Women's Caucus for Art national conference, San Francisco 1989
Audio recorded material 1989
The Woman question: taking positions/taking positions apart, panelist, College Art Association national conference, San Francisco 1988-1989
1990
Against the law, panelist, Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Monterey, CA 1990
Another way of seeing: encounters with contemporary art, presenter, California State University, Fresno 1989-1990
The Collective "I," panelist, San Francisco State University 1990
Oversize material 1990
Feminist pedagogy: the double voice, panelist, Society for Photographic Education national conference 1989-1990
Present and future: addressing the current arts emergency and setting the agenda for the '90s, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute 1990
Oversize material 1990
Surviving as an artist, panelist, Capp Street Project, San Francisco 1990
Oversize material 1990
1991
Art and the forbidden: images of female aggression, moderator, School of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University 1991
Audio recorded material 1991
Critical responsibility, panelist, San Francisco Art Dealers' Association seminar series, San Francisco 1991
Interdisciplinary teaching in the arts, presenter, Arizona State University, Phoenix 1991-1992
On becoming a performance artist, panelist, Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia 1991
Rewriting the canon, panelist, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael 1991
Audio recorded material 1991
Women in contemporary photography, lecturer, Friends of Photography, San Francisco 1991
1992
The Camcorder revolution: utilizing low-end video, panelist, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco 1992
Female aggression: crimes against patriarchy, moderator, Feminism, activism, and art conference, San Francisco 1992
Media map, panelist, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1992
Postmodernism in the classroom, panelist, Society for Photographic Education national conference 1991-1992
1993
Body doubles: society, sexuality, and the visual image, panelist, Friends of Photography, San Francisco 1993
Living with a legacy: regional history and cultural heritage, panelist, College Art Association 81st annual conference, Seattle 1993
Theories of aesthetics and criticism of art in the age of electronic media, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute 1993
1994
Altered egos, constructed bios, and other fictions, panelist, Santa Monica Museum of Art 1994
Nintendo killed the video star, panelist, Australian International Video Art Symposium, Sydney 1994
1995
Arte por computadora, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Managua, Nicaragua 1995
Dance, myth, and ritual in the Americas, panelist, Congress on Research in Dance, Miami 1995
Digital identities, technologies of meaning, panelist, Society for Photographic Education 32nd national conference, Atlanta, GA 1995
Exposicion de arte, presenter, Casa de Los Leones, Granada, Nicaragua 1995
Joseph Beuys: drawings, objects, prints, lecturer and moderator, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami 1995.
1996
Critical studies symposium #3, panelist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills 1996
Mechanical brides, lecturer, International Center for Digital Arts, San Francisco 1996
1997
Electronic arts and the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), panelist, College Art Association 85th annual conference, New York 1997
Undated
Film in the arena of art, panelist, San Francisco circa 1975-circa 1995
Love and hate: Joanna Frueh mouthpiece, panelist, The Lab, San Francisco circa 1975-circa 1995
Meridal Rubinstein video recorded class presentation, lecturer circa 1975-circa 1995
Miscellaneous lecture and presentation notes circa 1975-circa 1995
Curator and juror files
1985, Chicago imagist video, curator, The Eye Gallery, San Francisco 1985
1986, mapping one place onto another, curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 1986
1987
Experiments in form, juror, San Francisco International Film Festival 1987
The Lively arts: video and performance (2 part series), curator, The Fresno Arts Center and Museum 1987
1988
Beyond the camera obscura, curator (with David Bedell), San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 1988
Headlands Center for the Arts national residency program, juror, Sausalito, California 1988.
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art video award, juror, San Francisco Museum of Art 1988
Western States Regional Media N.E.A. Fellowhips, Rocky Mountain Media Center, Boulder, Colorado 1988
1989
Intercultural film/video fellowship national nominating committee, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York 1988-1989
Intersection for the Arts exhibit, San Francisco, juror 1989
Palo Alto film and video festival, juror, California 1987-1989
Billie Lynn protest and rally to boycott the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 1989
1991, annual photography show, juror, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland 1991
1994
Public Art Video Installation Commission for St. Rose of Lima Park, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, juror, Sacramento 1994
"A Simultaneous view of history: an examination of the landscape of history," Leonardo, reviewer 1994
1995
Cultural democracy: politics, identity, new media, reviewer, State University of New York Press 1995
5 Cyberconf, juror, Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia de Telefonica, Madrid 1995-1996
Video annuale, juror, L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) 1995
1996, California State University, Fullerton Grand Central Art Center project, participant, Santa Ana, California 1996
Employment files
Correspondence 1993
Letters of recommendation 1985-1996
Exhibit, performance, and conference proposals
Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit, Chicago 1994
The Business of culture: issues of control, questions of influence, Artlink Inc. exhibit 1991
Changing the subject, San Francisco Art Institute exhibit 1992
Computer art: theoretical perspectives panel, S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '91 1991
Electronic media arts symposium 1994
Franklin Furnace emerging artists performance and installation program 1992
New Vision festival, Tigertail Productions 1996
Symposium on lesbian and gay media, Frameline 1984
Fellowship application for California Institute of the Arts, Valencia circa 1975-circa 1995
Grant proposal, South Florida Cultural Consortium circa 1975-circa 1995
Residency material, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta 1994
Oversize material 1994
Research files Series 6. circa 1976-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
Artist and topical materials
Censorship issues 1990
Greengold, Jane 1983-1986
Halley, Peter 1987
Lehmann, Minette 1983-1992
Oversize material circa 1983-circa 1992
Tambyln and Minette Lehmann at University of California, Berkeley circa 1983-circa 1992
Mapplethorpe, Robert 1990
Prince, Richard 1987
Salle, David 1987
Weems, Carrie Mae 1991-1992
Conference, workshops, and lecture materials
Australian 7th International Video Festival 1992
Cinamatheque celebrates 25 years, San Francisco 1987
College Art Association 78th annual conference, New York 1990
I.S.E.A. 95, International symposium on electronic art, Montreal 1995
The Politics of spectacle, University of California, Berkeley 1992
San Francisco Art Institute lecture series 1992
Solnit landscape lecture circa 1975-circa 1995
Video Festival of Navarre, Pamplona 1997
Women's Caucus for Art
Annual conference, Washington, D.C. 1979
Beyond the boundaries conference, Seattle 1992
Exhibit materials
Berkeley Art Center 1992
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland 1993
Capp St. Project, San Francisco 1985-1992
Cinematheque, San Francisco 1991-1992
Haines Gallery, San Francisco 1991
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco 1991
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 1992
The Lab, San Francisco 1991-1992
L.A.C.E. 1991-1992
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco 1991
Miscellaneous
circa 1976-1982
1991-1992
Undated
Unidentified, Love postmodern style, video recorded material circa 1975-circa 1995
Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles 1989
New Langton Arts 1991-1992
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Bad girls exhibition catalog 1994
Oakland Museum 1991-1992
Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco 1991-1992
Richmond Art Center 1992
S.F. Camerawork 1992
San Francisco Art Institute 1991-1992
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 1992
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1992
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 1992
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco 1992
Stephen Wirtz Gallery 1992
University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 1991
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C. 1992