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Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings, 2006-2008
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Institutional Records and Archives
Title: Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings
creator:
Getty Research Institute. Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art
source:
Getty Research Institute. Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art
Identifier/Call Number: IA60004
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
(7 boxes)
Date: 2006-2008
Physical Location: Request access to the material described in this inventory through its corresponding
library catalog record and click "Request." Click here for
general library access policy . See the Administrative Information section of this finding aid for access restrictions specific to the records described
below. Please note, some of the records may be stored off site; advanced notice is required for access to these materials.
Abstract: The records comprise the project files of the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art (DACA) at the Getty Research
Institute (GRI) for the
California Video exhibition co-sponsored by the GRI and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Records include artist interviews conducted by Glenn Phillips
and Carole Ann Klonarides and exhibition planning documents dating from 2006 to 2008 that include interviews, press, artist
profiles, correspondence, contracts, ephemera, object lists and stills of videos featured in the exhibition.
The records date from 2006 to 2008 and comprise digital video recordings, CDs, and research files of the Getty Research Institute's
(GRI) Department of Architecture and Contemporary Arts (DACA) from its collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum for the
California Video exhibition in 2008. Digital videos on three hard drives and DVDs include master and access recordings of interviews conducted
in 2007 by Glenn Phillips and Carole Ann Klonarides with participating exhibition artists about the origins and development
of experimental video art in California. Edited excerpts of the interviews were
used in the accompanying Getty catalogue,
California Video: Artists and Histories, which features essays in addition to the edited interview excerpts of the participating artists.
Records also consist of planning documents for the
California Video
exhibition dating from 2006 to 2008 including published interviews and profiles about artists
and their work. Materials also include correspondence, artist agreements, ephemera, and object lists
and images of items featured in the exhibition. Some artist files may contain DVD copies of the interviews,
as well as transcripts, conducted for the project. Materials were maintained by Glenn Phillips, curator at the GRI.
The records described in accessions 2009.IA.44, 2011.IA.07, and 2014.IA.40 are available for use by qualified researchers
for on-site use only or are not available at all at the request of the participants. Master recordings are restricted; use
copies or digital copies exist for most of the recordings.
The following types of records are permanently closed: records containing personal information, records that compromise security
or operations, legal communications, legal work product, and records related to donors. The J. Paul Getty Trust reserves the
right to restrict access to any records held by the Institutional Archives.
Finding aid was created by Helen Kim in 2017. Accession 2014.IA.40 was processed in 2017, while the recordings in accession
2011.IA.07 were previously processed and originally described in finding aid IA40002. In 2015 it was determined that these
recordings were not public events and were separated and incorporated into this collection.
The master recordings in the hard drives were imaged in 2016 and 2017.
Access copies of the interviews can be viewed online on-site and by Getty staff at: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2009ia44
Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings, 2006-2008, Institutional Archives,
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, IA60004.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia60004
Accessions 2009.IA.44, 2011.IA.07, and 2014.IA.40 were transferred by the Getty Research Institute.
Administrative History and Project Background
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, a not-for-profit educational, cultural
and philanthropic organization dedicated to the visual arts. Originally established in 1983 as the Getty Center for the History
of Art and the Humanities (GCHAH), the objective of the GCHAH was to foster advanced research in art, its history, diversity,
and meaning in culture by engaging scholars from various disciplines in the humanities. In 1996, in order to avoid confusion
with the soon-to-open Getty Center, the GCHAH was renamed the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
and in 2000, the program's name was shortened to the Getty Research Institute.
The GRI's mission is to further knowledge and advance understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through
advanced research and scholarship, and through its activities and resources, provide a unique environment for research, critical
inquiry, and scholarly exchange. The GRI's Research Library, consisting of over one million books, periodicals, study photographs,
auction catalogs and special collections of rare and unique materials, as well as its online resources and databases, serve
an international community of scholars and the interested public. The GRI also provides intellectual leadership through its
research projects, exhibitions, and publication programs and provides service to a wide range of scholars worldwide through
residencies, fellowships, hosted lectures and symposia, and its innovative digital reference tools. Through all of its programs
and activities, the GRI endeavors to provide resources, expertise, and a collaborative environment for art-historical research
and publication.
Through the GRI's multidisciplinary programming, first from the department of Contemporary Programs and Research (CPR) and
later, its successor, the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art (DACA), the GRI worked to advance art history scholarship
of contemporary art, including sound art, audiovisual documentation of personal art, experimental music, and dance as well
as a focus on the birth of video as an artistic medium around the world. In December 2005, The GRI acquired the video archive
from the Long Beach Museum of Art, which increased the GRI's video art holdings to one of the world's largest. The idea for
the
California Video exhibition, which was co-organized and co-sponsored by CPR with the J. Paul Getty Museum, arose from the acquisition of the
Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive. The exhibition, a comprehensive history of video art in California over four decades,
was open at the Getty Center from March 15 to June 8, 2008.
View
California Video exhibition website online
In conjunction with the the
California Video exhibition, the GRI also presented the
California Video Screening Series in Spring 2008. Each screening, organized by a guest curator, expressed an alternative view of the diverse
history of video art in California and featured several works and included lectures or conversations presented by the hosts
of the events.
Contact
Library Rights and Reproductions at the Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish.
The records are arranged in two series: Series I: Artist interviews, 2007 and Series II. Exhibition planning documents, 2006-2008.
The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the people, programs, and subjects covered
by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.
California Video: Artists and Histories. Edited by Glenn Phillips. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.
Getty Research Institute Public Event recordings. The Getty Research Institute. IA40002.
Modern Art in Los Angeles Recordings, 2003-2011. The Getty Research Institute. IA40018.
Getty Research Institute Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. recordings, 2008-2012. The Getty Research Institute. IA40011.
Getty Research Institute Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 Administrative Project Files, 2003, 2008-2013, undated.
The Getty Research Institute. IA60006.
This finding aid is restricted to Getty staff only.
Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980. Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, and Rani Singh. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.
Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive, circa 1970-2000. The Getty Research Institute. Accession no. 2006.M.7.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Experimental films
Performance art -- 20th century
Art museums -- Exhibitions
Art museums -- Planning
Oral histories (document genres)
Video art--California--Exhibitions
Video art -- 20th century
Correspondence
Artists -- California
Ephemera
Photographic prints
Video recordings
Getty Research Institute. Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art