Finding aid for the Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings, 2006-2008
IA60004
Helen Kim
Institutional Records and Archives
2017
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL:
"http://hdl.handle.net/10020/GRI_InstitutionalArchives/"
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
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.
Scope and contents
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.
Access Restrictions
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.
Processing History
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.
Technical Requirements
Access copies of the interviews can be viewed online on-site and by Getty staff at: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2009ia44
Preferred Citation
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
Acquisition Information
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.
Publication Rights
Arrangement
The records are arranged in two series: Series I: Artist interviews, 2007 and Series II. Exhibition planning documents, 2006-2008.
Related Materials
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
Artist interviews, Series I.
2007
(2009.IA.44) California Video oral histories
Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet(5 boxes)
Scope and Contents
These records comprise interviews conducted in 2007 by Getty Research Institute (GRI) curator Glenn Phillips and Carole Ann
Klonarides, media arts curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art from 1991 to 1995. The interviews were conducted in association
with the
California Video exhibition co-sponsored by the GRI and the J. Paul Getty Museum and feature discussions with curators and video artists about
the history of California video art and their perspectives on the topic. Materials include access DVD copies as well as three
external hard drives containing the master recordings of the interviews. Hard drive contents were imaged.
Arrangement note
Materials are organized in two sections: Access copies and Master recordings. Interviews are listed alphabetically by the
surname of the artist.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access copies of the interviews can be viewed online on-site and by Getty staff at: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2009ia44
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Ackoff, Alan,
March 29, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:14)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Antin, Eleanor [restricted],
2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:52)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Beck, Stephen,
March 23, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time: 01:14)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Bozanich, Ante,
February 9, 2007
Physical Description: (2 DVDs. Running time 01:14 and 00:44)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Buchanan, Nancy,
February 1, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:26)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Burden, Chris,
May 7, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:16)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Campbell, Jim,
March 22, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:31)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Fried, Howard,
March 24, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 02:03)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Huffman, Kathy Rae,
2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:13)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Jenkins, Ulysses,
June 8, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:38)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Keading, Hilja
February 16, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:21)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Kelley, Mike
2007
Physical Description: (2 DVDs. Running time 1:00 and 0:19)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Kersels, Martin,
May 13, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:33)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Kirby, Lynn,
July 16, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:32)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Klonarides, Carole Ann,
July 16, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:38)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Labat, Tony,
March 23, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:12)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Lacy, Suzanne,
March 9, 2007
Physical Description: (1DVD. Running time 01:46)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
Lord, Chip and Doug Hall,
March 25, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:31)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
McCarthy, Paul,
May 8, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 02:12)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Maughn, Cynthia,
April 19, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:18)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Miller, Branda,
February 10, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:31)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-13
McCafferty, Jay,
March 30, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 00:49)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Mogul, Susan,
April 22, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:25)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Perov, Kira,
June 22, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:34)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Podesta, Patti,
March 11, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:56)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Rees, Joe,
May 26, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:48)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Rosler, Martha,,
March 11, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:37)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Ross, David,
January 25, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:01)
Please note that Part 1 was not received by the Institutional Archives. The recording consists of Part 2 only.
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Segalove, Ilene,
March 31, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:01)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Sobell, Nina,
February 10, 2007
Physical Description: (2 DVDs. Running time 01:12 and 00:45)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Steinkamp, Jennifer,
March 2, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:32)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Sturgeon, John,
February 9, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:28)
General note
Note: Audio and video cut out very briefly from time to time, but content is primarily intact.
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Sweeney, Skip,
March 25, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 02:10)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Thater, Diana,
February 26, 2007
Physical Description: (2 DVDs. Running time 01:04 and 01:04)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Viola, Bill,
June 22, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:34)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Wegman, William,
February 7, 2007
Physical Description: (1 DVD. Running time 01:20)
Mixed Materials 2011.IA.07-14
Yonemoto, Bruce and Norman,
January 29, 2007
Physical Description: (2 DVDs. Running time 01:06 and 1:18)
Exhibition planning documents, Series II.
2006-2008
Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet(2 boxes)
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in two subseries:
Scope and Contents
These records consist of the planning documents for the
California Video exhibition co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Materials date from 2006 to 2008
and include interviews, press materials, and profiles about the artists and their work. Materials also include correspondence,
contracts, ephemera and object lists and images of items featured in the exhibition. General reference materials, video transcripts,
and letters of agreements with artists are also included. Some artist files may contain video copies of the oral histories
conducted with the GRI. Materials were maintained by Glenn Phillips, GRI curator.
Artist files, Series II.A
2006-2008
Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet(2 boxes)
Scope and Contents
These records consist of artist files compiled for the
California Video exhibition co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Materials date from 2006 to 2008
and include interviews, press materials, biographies, resumes, and profiles about artists and their work. Materials also include
correspondence, contracts, ephemera and object lists and images of items featured in the exhibition. Some artist files may
contain CD and DVD copies of the video interviews the GRI conducted with participating artists.
Arrangement
Artist files are arranged in alphabetical order.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Alan Ackoff,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Eleanor Antin,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Skip Arnold,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
David Askevold,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
John Baldessari,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Stephen Beck,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Ante Bozanich,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 CD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Nancy Buchanan,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 CD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Jim Campbell,
2006
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Harry Dodget and Stanya Kahn,
2006-2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Arthur Ginsberg,
2007-2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Ant Farm (Chip Lord),
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Ulysses Jenkins,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Hilija Keading,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mike Kelley,
2008
Physical Description: (2 folders)
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVCAM tapes and 1 CD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Paul Kos,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Joan Logue,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Tony Labat,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-01
Cynthia Maughan,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Jay McCafferty,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Susan Mogul,
2006-2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Tony Oursler,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Patti Podesta,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 DVD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Joe Rees,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 4 CDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Ilene Segalove,
2007-2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 CD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
John Sturgeon,
2007
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 DVDs.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Skip Sweeney,
2008
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 CD.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto (works),
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto (about),
2008
General materials, Series II.B.
2007-2008
Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet(1 box)
Scope and Contents
These records consist of general exhibition planning documents for the
California Video exhibition co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Materials date from 2007 to 2008
and include correspondence, some transcripts of the GRI video interviews with artists, some letters of agreements from artists
for both use of their material in the exhibition and for the video interviews, and general research on the history of video
art in California.
Arrangement
The records are arranged in original order.
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Miscellaneous local video,
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
"Scratching the Belly of the Beast,"
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Tapes from all tribes,
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Installed show images,
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
General California video research,
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Long Beach Museum of Art,
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
Audio track transcripts,
2008
Mixed Materials 2014.IA.40-02
