Guide to the Christine Tamblyn papers MS.F.011
Finding aid prepared by Adrian Turner, 2001; updated by Carolina Quezada Meneses under the supervision of Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez,
2020; updated by Sarah Glover, 2022.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 2022
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine 92623-9557
spcoll@uci.edu
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Christine Tamblyn papers
Creator:
Tamblyn, Christine
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.011
Physical Description:
20.1 Linear Feet
(44 boxes and 14 oversize folders) and 2 unprocessed linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1962-1998
Date (bulk): 1976-1997
Abstract: This collection comprises notes, correspondence, interviews, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, floppy disks,
CD-ROMs, books, catalogues, printed ephemera, and artifacts collected and created during the life and career of artist, critic,
and educator Christine Tamblyn. The bulk of this collection consists of materials documenting Tamblyn's artwork, writings,
academic career, and professional activities from the 1970s through 1990s. The collection also includes some personal files
and juvenilia. The collection is particularly strong in the area of conceptual art, performance, video and digital media in
the 1970s and 1980s, representing her work as a multimedia, video, and performance artist as well her role as writer and critic.
Files include extensive documentation of two of Tamblyn's CD-ROM works,
She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993) and
Mistaken Identities (1995). Materials concerning such artists as Karen Finley, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and others can be found throughout the collection.
Significant issues and debates in the U.S. art world of the 1970s to 1990s are well documented in Tamblyn's articles, essays,
and reviews for a variety of publications, including
Afterimage, Art news, Cinematograph, Art week, High Performance, Leonardo, and
New Art Examiner. Materials also reflect Tamblyn's participation in the national and international art world, primarily through her attendance
at and presentations for conferences and symposia, but the geographic emphasis is Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The collection also contains posthumously collected materials, including the multimedia CD-ROM
Archival Quality (1998).
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Preferred Citation
Christine Tamblyn papers. MS-F011 Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Christine Tamblyn, 1998.
Processing Information
Preliminary processing by Laura Clark Brown in 1998 and Paula Ross in 1999. Processing and guide completed by Adrian Turner
in 2001. In 2020 Carolina Quezada Meneses, MLIS intern, processed the CD-ROMs and floppy disks present in this collection.
Biography
Christine Tamblyn was an American visual artist and critic active in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1970s
through 1990s, and known for her performance pieces and multimedia works utilizing CD-ROMs and video. She was born in 1951
in Waukegan, Illinois and attended a Catholic girls' school. In 1968 or 1969 she moved to Chicago where she audited courses
at the University of Chicago while working as an administrative assistant for an insurance company. She began her studies
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in approximately 1973 and taught graduate-level courses in video while
still an undergraduate. She also worked as the Video and Performance Editor for the
New Art Examiner journal from 1977 to 1979, a beginning in her long and prolific career as an art critic. She quickly became an active participant
in the flourishing community of Chicago video artists. In a series of lectures about her own work, Tamblyn noted that she
focused on video and performance art at SAIC since they were "the closest to everyday life." In the area of performance she
was strongly influenced by the work of Allan Kaprow and the Happenings artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Among her
video teachers was Phil Morton, who in the early 1970s founded the Video Data Bank at SAIC. Morton, Dan Sandin (inventor of
the Image Processor, an analog video synthesizer), Tom DeFanti, and Bob Snyder were part of what became known as the Chicago
Imagist school of video makers. This group was the "first generation" of video artists to incorporate the use of special effects
into their work, a practice that was initially met with derision by other artists who termed the results "video wallpaper."
Tamblyn herself went on to produce video and performance pieces in which she utilized the technologies available at the time
to manipulate autobiographically-based materials that she subjected to filtering, with influences ranging from Dada and surrealist
art, the mysticism of Rosicrucianism and the Cabala, to poststructuralist and feminist theories. The theoretical foundations
that shaped her work can be easily traced through her decades-spanning habit of journal writing as well as her detailed research
for exhibition catalogue essays, articles of art criticism, conference and symposia presentations, and academic papers.
After graduating from SAIC around 1979 she moved to New York City. She described her work there as "stylized Neo-Expressionist
performances in East Village clubs." The New York period was a difficult one. She taught for a time at the School of Visual
Arts and worked in clerical positions. Without access to equipment, however, she could not make the kind of technology-dependent
work she had spent four years producing while in Chicago.
From the late 1970s through the 1990s she was actively involved in a variety of national and international conferences, workshops,
symposia, lectures, and festivals. She also became progressively involved in work as a curator in the 1980s. In approximately
1982 she entered the MFA program at the University of California, San Diego where she could study with conceptual artists
she admired, including Eleanor and David Antin and Allan Kaprow. She received her degree in 1986. Tamblyn also began working
with feminist performance artists during this time. In 1984, at the invitation of the Los Angeles Woman's Building, she created
As the Worm Turns, a response to what she considered a disturbing anti-pornography stance within certain sectors of the women's movement.
In 1985 she moved to San Francisco and began teaching at San Francisco State University (SFSU). In San Francisco she actively
worked as a contributing editor for
Artweek, an editor for
Cinematograph, and a correspondent for
Art news. The issue of censorship and the arts, which occupied the U.S. art world's center stage for much of the late 1980s and early
1990s (funding of the National Endowment for the Arts was a key site of contention), surfaced in her career as an art critic
and curator. Tableaux Vivants, a group show sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission and curated by Tamblyn, and the
ensuing Climate of Censorship conference in 1989 unleashed a fury of protests and discussions in response to Tamblyn's conflict
with one of the participating artists' large-scale sculptures.
The digital revolution of the 1980s and early 1990s found Tamblyn at the forefront, stemming from her early exposure to and
use of technology in her pieces. An artist who often collaborated with others, Tamblyn's first CD-ROM,
She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993), was a joint project with her students at SFSU, Marjorie Franklin and Paul Tompkins. This was one of the first CD-ROMs
created and produced by a woman artist. Women and technology remained a topic of intense interest for Tamblyn throughout her
career. This is reflected both in journals from her undergraduate days, in which she recorded her frustrating attempts to
forge a place for herself as a woman in the male-dominated world of media labs and studios, and in her commitment to new digital
genres, which resulted in two additional CD-ROMs,
Mistaken Identities (1995) and the posthumous
Archival Quality (1998).
Between 1990 and 1996 she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Florida International University, Miami (FIU).
She left FIU in 1996 for the Department of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), due to what she perceived
as a lack of support for the art program. At UCI she was instrumental in developing the foundation for a digital arts program.
Tamblyn's conceptual and intellectual products are at least as significant as her art production. Part of her life-long project
was the blurring of borders between art and living. Until the very end of her life, she continued working on the project she
had begun as a young artist, the desire to, as she put it, "make my life a work of art. Having my life as my work of art makes
my art totally dependent on the contexts that I operate in." Tamblyn died of breast cancer on January 1, 1998 in San Francisco.
A biographical article on Tamblyn is available online through "University of California: In Memoriam."
Chronology
Missing Title
1951 |
Born in Waukegan, Illinois and lives in Libertyville. |
Ca. 1968 |
Moves to Chicago and begins to audit courses at the University of Chicago. |
Ca. 1973 |
Begins studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
Ca. 1979 |
B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
1977-1979 |
New Art Examiner |
1978-1980 |
Instructor and Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
1980 |
Moves to New York City. |
Ca. 1982 |
Begins M.F.A. studies at the University of California, San Diego. |
1982 |
Lecturer, The School of Visual Arts, New York. |
1983-1985 |
Teaching assistant, University of California, San Diego. |
1984 |
Research Assistant to Moira Roth, University of California, San Diego. |
1985 |
Moves to San Francisco. |
1986 |
M.F.A. University of California, San Diego. |
1986- ca. 1994 |
Lecturer and Graduate Program Coordinator, San Francisco State University. |
1986-1989 |
Artweek |
1987-1988 |
Cinematograph |
1987-1993 |
Art news |
1988-1990 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, San Francisco Art Institute. |
1989 |
Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz. |
1990 |
Lecturer, Mills College. |
1990-1993 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley. |
1994-1996 |
Assistant Professor, Florida International University. |
1996-1998 |
Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine. |
1998 |
Dies on January 1st in San Francisco. |
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises notes, correspondence, interviews, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, floppy disks,
CD-ROMs, books, catalogues, printed ephemera, and artifacts collected and created during the life and career of artist, critic,
and educator Christine Tamblyn. The bulk of this collection consists of materials documenting Tamblyn's artwork, writings,
academic career, and professional activities from the 1970s through 1990s. The collection also includes some personal files
and juvenilia. The collection is particularly strong in the area of conceptual art, performance, video and digital media in
the 1970s and 1980s, representing her work as a multimedia, video, and performance artist as well her role as writer and critic.
Files include extensive documentation of two of Tamblyn's CD-ROM works,
She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993) and
Mistaken Identities (1995). Materials concerning such artists as Karen Finley, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and others can be found throughout the collection.
Significant issues and debates in the U.S. art world of the 1970s to 1990s are well documented in Tamblyn's articles, essays,
and reviews for a variety of publications, including
Afterimage, Art news, Cinematograph, Art week, High Performance, Leonardo, and
New Art Examiner. Materials also reflect Tamblyn's participation in the national and international art world, primarily through her attendance
at and presentations for conferences and symposia, but the geographic emphasis is Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The collection also contains posthumously collected materials, including the multimedia CD-ROM
Archival Quality (1998).
Video material is in VHS, 8-mm., Hi-8, and U-matic formats. The bulk of this material is recorded on U-matic tapes. Audio
material is primarily recorded on standard audio cassettes although some material is recorded on 3 1/4" tape.
Tamblyn's 1996 curriculum vitae filed in Series 2 contains a comprehensive chronological list of her artwork, publications,
and professional activities, as well as a detailed bibliography of works about her.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is organized into 6 series.
- Series 1. Artwork, 1973-1997. 8.2 linear ft.
- Series 2. Personal and biographical files, 1967-1998. 0.4 linear ft.
- Series 3. Academic files, 1973-1996. 1.4 linear ft.
- Series 4. Writings, 1962-1997. 6.7 linear ft.
- Series 5. Professional files, 1978-1997. 1.9 linear ft.
- Series 6. Research files, ca. 1976-1997. 0.7 linear ft.
The collection also contains one unprocessed addition:
- Accn2004-041. Audiovisual materials, circa 1992-1998. 2 linear ft.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art critics.
CD-ROMs
Artifacts
Diaries
Artists.
Performance art
Video art -- History -- Sources
Video recordings
Floppy disks
Interactive multimedia
Feminism and art
Art and technology -- History -- Sources
Art criticism
Feminist art criticism
Art, modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago
Art, modern -- 20th century -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Photographic prints
Slides
Negatives (photographic)
Sound recordings.
Tamblyn, Christine -- Archives
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives
Artwork Series 1.
1973-1997
Physical Description: 8.2 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series comprises multimedia artwork, artifacts, and documentation of artwork and performances created by Tamblyn, or
co-created by Tamblyn and others. Her works were presented in a variety of formats, including photographic prints, slides,
audio and video recordings, and CD-ROMs. Video and audio tapes contain mastered material and raw footage (original and appropriated)
incorporated by Tamblyn into her artwork. These files also contain scripts, research materials and notes, show announcements,
flyers, posters, correspondence, exhibition contracts, press releases, and reviews of performances. They also contain other
conference- and lecture-related materials documenting individual performances.
For articles published by Tamblyn not restricted to her individual works, see Subseries 4.1. For materials relating to Tamblyn's
involvement in conferences, panels, and exhibits that do not document her individual works, see Series 5.
Arrangement
This series is arranged alphabetically by title of the work. Materials relating to individual performances or exhibitions
are filed together under the heading Performance and exhibit files. All other materials concerning the research and creation
of works are filed together under the heading Research and production files. Individual works that were published or appeared
in publications are indicated by headings with the title of the publication in italics and the year of the publication in
parentheses. Materials relating to artwork that may not have been exhibited or published, including drafts, research notes,
and other documents, are filed under the general heading Miscellaneous artwork and projects.
"Archival quality," Los Angeles Center for Performing Arts exhibit materials
1998.
General note
See series 2.
box 1, folder 1, box 39
Research and production files
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 39, item MS-F11-V24/25
Video recorded raw material
circa 1975-circa 1995.
Physical Description: 2 u-matic tapes.
box 39, item MS-F11-V26
Video recorded mastered material
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 1, folder 2-7
Performance and exhibit files
box 1, folder 2-3
Miscellaneous
1985-1995
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 1, folder 4
Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Morro Bay
1987
box 1, folder 6-7
Women's Building, Los Angeles and S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco
1984-1988
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 7 printed color digital scans, 4 color slides, 1 black and white photographic print, and 1 sheet of contact
prints.
box 1, folder 8
Theory and flesh (1986), transcript of performance
1986
box 38, item MS-F11-A01
Audio recorded material
1973
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 34, item MS-F11-F01
Filmed material
1973
Physical Description: 1 8-mm. film.
box 1, folder 9
"Blood stained black velvet," research and production file and Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia performance and exhibit file
ca. 1975.
General Physical Description note: Includes 20 color slides and 2 color photographic prints.
"The Brain (enigmatic contrivances)," with Marlene Alt and Tracy Edling
box 1, folder 10-12
Research and production files
circa 1984.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 39, item MS-F11-V27/30
Video recorded material
1984
Physical Description: 4 u-matic tapes.
Performance and exhibit files
box 1, folder 13-14
Society for Photographic Education west regional conference, San Francisco
1986
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 1, folder 15-18
Sushi, San Diego
1984
General Physical Description note: 4 folders, including 170 color slides and 21 black and white photographic prints.
box 2, folder 1
"Casanova," research and production file
undated
"Chained reactions," with Barbara Latham
box 2, folder 2
Research and production file
1986
box 39, item MS-F11-V31/33
Video recorded material
1982-1983
Physical Description: 3 u-matic tapes.
box 39, item MS-F11-V34
Video recorded mastered material
1982
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tapes.
box 39, item MS-F11-V35
Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material
circa 1982-circa 1983
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 2, folder 3
Performance and exhibit file, miscellaneous
1983-1996
"Corporate crime/malicious mischief: power and mediation: a fin de siécle tautology," performance and exhibit files,
1987-1988.
General note
See also the file "San Francisco 'art critic' performance" in this series.
box 2, folder 4
Installation Gallery, San Diego
1987.
General Physical Description note: Includes 3 black and white slides and 1 black and white photographic print.
box FB-027, folder 6
Oversize material
1987
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 2, folder 5
Media Gallery, San Francisco
1987-1988
box 2, folder 6
"Diderot and the last luminaire," S.I.T.E. Gallery, Los Angeles performance and exhibit file
1994
"Duel/duet," with Joanna Frueh
box 2, folder 7-10
Research and production files
1989
General Physical Description note: 4 folders, including 6 color slides.
Performance and exhibit files
box 2, folder 12
Opening the circle of identities, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1989
box 2, folder 13
Women's Caucus for Art national conference, New York
1990
box 2, folder 14
Erotic faculties (1996), transcript of performance
1996
"Entropic pursuits: the infinite regress of the doppelganger"
Audio and video recorded material
box 38, item MS-F11-A02
Audio recorded material
circa 1980-circa 1989
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 39, item MS-F11-V36/37
Video recorded mastered material and duplicate copies
circa 1980-circa 1989
Physical Description: 2 u-matic tapes
Performance and exhibit files
box 2, folder 15
N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1978-1980.
General Physical Description note: Includes 6 color photographic prints.
box FB-021, folder 2
Oversize material
1978-1980
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 2, folder 16
New Video and Performance Art in Detroit, Detroit Institute of the Arts
1979
box 2, folder 17
Women's Caucus for Art national conference, Detroit
1978.
General Physical Description note: Includes 9 color slides.
box 2, folder 18
"The Eye and the I: photographs made with a pinhole camera," photograph album
1973
General Physical Description note: 13 black and white photographic prints.
box 2, folder 19
"Faction," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco performance and exhibit file
1988
box 3, folder 1
"Falan your knees, Louise," Chicago Filmmakers performance and exhibit file
1979
box 41, item MS-F11-V60
Video recorded material
1979
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 3, folder 2
"Flaming Rose and Ichabod McCracken search for the philosopher's stone," with Richard Horner, The School of Visual Arts, New
York performance and exhibit file
1981
General Physical Description note: Includes 35 color slides.
box 38, item MS-F11-A03
Audio recorded material
circa 1981
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 39, item MS-F11-V38
Video recorded material
1981
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 39, item MS-F11-V39
"Flaming Rose improvisations with Barbara Latham," video recorded material
circa 1981
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 39, item MS-F11-V40
"Flaming Rose's debut and diary experiment," video recorded material
circa 1981
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 3, folder 3-4
Research and production files
1988.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Performance and exhibit files
box 3, folder 5
National Association of Artists' Organizations conference, Los Angeles
1987-1988
box FB-028, folder 3
Oversize material
1987
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 3, folder 6
S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco
1988
box 3, folder 7
Acts (1996), transcript of performance
1996
"Grafting tentacles on the octopussy"
box 3, folder 8
Performance and exhibit file
circa 1994
General Physical Description note: 4 black and white photographic prints.
box 3, folder 9
Lusitania (1994), text of exhibit
1994
box 3, folder 10
"Having a wonderful time, wish we were here," The School of the Art Institute of Chicago performance and exhibit file
circa 1975-circa 1985
box 6, folder 4
"I did it for love," Dropped lines exhibit, Seneca Falls Gallery, San Diego performance and exhibit file
1983
box FB-028, folder 4
Oversize material
1983
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 3, folder 11
"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
box 40, item MS-F11-V41/43
Video recorded mastered and duplicated material
circa 1975-circa 1985
Physical Description: 3 u-matic tapes.
box 3, folder 12
"Is communism possible without manipulation?," performance and exhibition file
1977
General Physical Description note: 2 color photographic prints.
box 38, item MS-F11-A04
Audio recorded material
1977
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
"Mama dada, dada dada," with Wendy Geller and Ruth Wallen
box 3, folder 13-15
Research and production files
1981-1984
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 3, folder 16-18
Performance and exhibit file, Sushi, San Diego
1984
General Physical Description note: 3 folders, including 40 color slides and 12 black and white photographic prints.
box 3, folder 19
"Melody, voices, tail!," with Auste Peciura, Inroads, New York performance and exhibit file
1981.
General Physical Description note: Includes 8 color slides.
box 3, folder 20
"Memory capitalism," research and production file and Minneapolis Institute of the Arts performance and exhibit file
1978
General Physical Description note: Includes 4 color slides.
box 41, item MS-F11-V60
Video recorded duplicated material
1976
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 40, item MS-F11-V44
Video recorded mastered material
circa 1976-circa 1978
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
Miscellaneous artwork and projects
box 38, item MS-F11-A05/07
Miscellaneous
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 3 Cassettes
box 34, item MS-F11-AT01
Orpheus or X-mas
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 3 1/4" tape.
box 34, item MS-F11-AT02
Richard Foreman
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 3 1/4" tape.
box 34, item MS-F11-AT03
Unidentified
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 3 1/4" tape.
box 36
Note cards
circa 1975-circa 1995
box FB-029, folder 2-3
Scrapbooks
1975-1977
Physical Description: 2 oversize folders.
box 3, folder 21-23, box 4, folder 1-2
Scripts, drafts, and research materials
1975
Physical Description: 5 folders.
box FB-021, folder 3
Oversize material
circa 1975-circa 1995.
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 43, item MS-F11-V22
First week of using camera
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 hi-8 tape.
box 41, item MS-F11-V64
New video and performance art in Detroit, third performance, Detroit Institute of the Arts
1979.
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 41, item MS-F11-V65
Performance sampler for Detroit
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 41, item MS-F11-V66
Processing of objects from grandfather's house
circa 1981
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
Miscellaneous performance and exhibit files
box 4, folder 3-4
1976-1997
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box FB-027, folder 6
Oversize material
circa 1976-1981
Physical Description: 6 items.
box 4, folder 5-9
Research and production files
1995
Physical Description: 6 folders.
box 4, folder 10
CD-ROM materials and user's guide
1995
box 44, item MS-F11-CD01
CD-ROM
1995
Mistaken Identities screencasts and README
General Physical Description note: System requirements: Macintosh Centris or greater or compatible, color monitor.
Performance and exhibit files
box 4, folder 11
Cynema: an interactive playground, 5th Brisbane International Film Festival
1996
box 4, folder 12
Florida Art Center, Ground Level Gallery
1995
box 4, folder 13
Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville
1996
box 4, folder 14-15
I.S.E.A. 96, International symposium on electronic art, Rotterdam
1996.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
folder XOS 1
Oversize material,
1996.
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 4, folder 16
Mill Valley new media/videofest
1997
box 4, folder 17-18, box 5, folder 1-3
Miscellaneous
1995-1997
Physical Description: 5 folders.
box 5, folder 4
Moveable feast, S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco
1996
box 5, folder 5
New York exposition of short film and video
1996
box FB-027, folder 6
Oversize material
1996
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 5, folder 6
S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '96, New Orleans, CD-ROM materials and user's guide
1995-1996
box 44, item MS-F11-CD02/03
CD-ROMs
1995
General Physical Description note: 2 items. System requirements: MacOS 7.0, Windows
TM NT, 3.1, 95 or greater or compatible.
box 5, folder 7
Tech.no site, Rike Gallery, University of Dayton, Ohio
1996
box 5, folder 8-10
Techno-seduction, Cooper Union, New York
1996-1997
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 5, folder 11
Virtual female, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco
1995
box FB-028, folder 4
Oversize material
1995
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 5, folder 12-13
Visual arts faculty exhibition, with Kate Kretz, University Art Museum, Florida International University
1996
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 5, folder 14-15
World wide video festival, The Hague
1996
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 5, folder 16
Leonardo (1997), article
1997
box 5, folder 17
"My cable release film," research and production files
box 38, item MS-F11-A08
Audio recorded material
1976
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 34, item MS-F11-F02
Filmed material
1976
Physical Description: 1 8-mm. film
box 5, folder 18
"My life in the avant garde," research and production file and Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco performance and exhibit
file
1991
box 38, item MS-F11-A09
Audio recorded material
circa 1991
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
"Paracritical cannabalism"
box 5, folder 19
Research and production file
circa 1991-circa 1992
Performance and exhibit files
box 33, folder 1
Berkeley Art Center
1991-1992
box 6, folder 1
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
circa 1991-circa 1992
General Physical Description note: 1 black and white photographic print.
box 6, folder 2
"Paracritical cannabalism 2," Women's Art Project, San Francisco Women's Center performance and exhibit file
1993
General Physical Description note: Includes 40 color slides.
box FB-021, folder 4
Oversize material
1993
Physical Description: 3 items.
"Pathetic fallacy," with Richard Horner
box 40, item MS-F11-V45
Research and production file, video recorded master copy
1980
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
Performance and exhibit files
box 6, folder 3
Dropped lines, Seneca Falls Gallery, San Diego
1983
box FB-028, folder 4
Oversize material
1983
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 2, folder 3, box 6, folder 4
Miscellaneous
1980-1986
General Physical Description note: 2 folders. Includes 12 color photographic prints.
box 39, item MS-F11-V35
Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material
circa 1980-circa 1986
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 6, folder 4
Works from Chicago, Experimental Video Studio, Art Institute of Chicago screening
1981
"A Personal history of the female body"
box 6, folder 5
Research and production file
circa 1989-circa 1992
Performance and exhibit files
box 6, folder 6
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
1989-1990
box 6, folder 8-9
Performing/deforming/inversion/subversion conference, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
1992
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 30 color slides and 1 black and white photographic print.
box 6, folder 10
"Reiteration/obliteration," research and production file
1978
General Physical Description note: Includes 2 color slides.
box 40, item MS-F11-V46
Video recorded material
1978
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 6, folder 11
"Retrospective," Mandeville Annex Gallery, University of California, San Diego performance and exhibit file
1951-1985
General Physical Description note: Includes 16 black and white photographic prints and 1 sheet of contact prints.
box 6, folder 12-14
Research and production files
1991
General Physical Description note: 3 folders, including 3 printed color digital scans and 25 color photographic prints.
box 6, folder 15
Projections in public, San Francisco performance and exhibit file
1994
box 6, folder 16-17
San Francisco Art Institute annual exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery
1991
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 51 color slides.
Research and production files
box 41, folder MS-F11-V60
Video recorded duplicated material
1977
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 40, item MS-F11-V47
Video recorded mastered material
1977
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
Performance and exhibit files
box 9, folder 10
Chicago Filmmakers
circa 1976
box FB-030, folder 1
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1 cloth poster with holograph announcement and 1 color photographic print
1977
box 6, folder 18
"San Francisco 'art critic' performance, 1985-present," Information/ culture/technology, San Francisco State University performance
and exhibit file
1992
General note
See also Corporate crime/malicious mischief: power and mediation: a fin de siécle tautology.
box 34, item MS-F11-F03
"Secret museum," filmed material
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 8-mm. film.
box 34, folder MS-F11-F04
"A sentimental story," filmed material
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 dual 8 mm. film.
"She loves it, she loves it not"
box 6, folder 19-23
Research and production files
circa 1992-1993
Physical Description: 6 folders.
box 6, folder 24
CD-ROM materials and user's guide
1993
box 44, item MS-F11-CD04
CD-ROM
1993
She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology screencasts and README
General Physical Description note: System requirements: Macintosh II or greater or compatible, color monitor, speakers.
Performance and exhibit files
box 7, folder 1
A.D.A.: women in technology, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
1995-1996
General Physical Description note: Includes 4 color slides.
box 7, folder 2
Computer disk materials and user's guide
1996
box 44, item MS-F11-D01
3 1/2" computer disk
1996
General Physical Description note: System requirements: MacOS or compatible.
box 7, folder 3-4
ARS 95, International symposium on electronic art, Helsinki
1994-1995
Physical Description: 3 folders
box 7, folder 5
CD-ROM materials and user's guide
1993
box 44, item MS-F11-CD05
CD-ROM
1993
General Physical Description note: System requirements: MacOS, Windows, or compatible.
box 7, folder 6
The Art of multimedia, University Art Gallery, Cal State Hayward
1994
box 7, folder 7
Call of the wild, Walter Phillips Gallery
1995
box 7, folder 8-9
College Art Association 83rd annual conference, San Antonio
1994-1995
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 7, folder 10
Convergence: 5th biennial symposium of arts & technology, Connecticut College, New London
1994-1995
box 7, folder 11
Desmitificacions, Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo, Spain
1995
box 7, folder 12
Digital identities, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
1994-1995
box 33, folder 2
The Digital village, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park
1995
box 7, folder 13-16
4 Cyberconf, Banff Centre, Alberta
1994
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 7, folder 17
Gender and technology, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University
1994-1995
box 7, folder 18
Hand in place: five new artists in Miami, Miami Dade Community College Centre Gallery
1995
box 7, folder 19
Hypertext, Writing and community series, Poetry Center, San Francisco
1994
box 33, folder 3-4
I.S.E.A. 94, International symposium on electronic art, Helsinki
1994
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 8, folder 1
The Illustrated woman: the second annual conference on feminist activism and art, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco
circa 1992-circa 1995
box 8, folder 2
Information superhighway, Downey Museum of Art
1995
box 8, folder 3
Inter-active, Works/San Jose
1994
folder XOS 1
Oversize material,
1996.
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 8, folder 6-8
circa 1991-circa 1997
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box FB-021, folder 5
Oversize material
circa 1991-circa 1997
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 8, folder 9
Multimedia playground, Exploratorium, San Francisco
1994
box 8, folder 10-11
New voices, new visions competition, New York
1994-1995
box 8, folder 11
CD-ROM materials and user's guide
1995
box 44, item MS-F11-CD06/07
CD-ROMs
1995
General Physical Description note: 2 items. System requirements: MacOS 7.0 or greater or compatible, color monitor.
box 8, folder 12
Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley
1994
box 8, folder 13
Persistent dispositions, technetronic identities, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1994-1995
box 8, folder 14
Second nature, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco
1994
General Physical Description note: Includes 12 color slides.
box 8, folder 15
Seduced and abandoned: the body in the virtual world, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1994
box 8, folder 16-17
S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '94, Orlando
1994
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 8, folder 18
Veered science, Huntington Beach Art Center
1995
box 8, folder 19
Women in the directors chair, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1996
box 8, folder 20-21
Leonardo (1995)
1994-1995
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 1 color photographic print.
box 9, folder 1
Multimedia graphics: the best of global hyperdesign (1996)
1996
General Physical Description note: Includes 4 printed color digital scans.
box 9, folder 2
Processed lives: gender and technology in everyday life (1997)
1997
box 9, folder 3
Suffragettes to she-devils: women's liberation and beyond (1997)
1995-1997
box FB-029, folder 1
"Snatched from oblivion," scrapbook
circa 1975-circa 1995
General Physical Description note: Includes printed color digital scans.
box 34, item MS-F11-F05
"Someday my prince will come," filmed material
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 dual 8 mm. film.
box 9, folder 4-5
"Strata," research and production file and Video Works by UCSD Faculty and Graduate Alumni exhibit, San Diego performance
and exhibit file
1990-1992.
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 1 black and white photographic print.
box 38, item MS-F11-A10
Audio recorded material, Dan Daniel A.S.U.L. video class comments
1990
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 40, item MS-F11-V48/51
Video recorded mastered and raw material
1989
Physical Description: 4 u-matic tapes.
"The Thaumatrope," with John Van Wagner
box 9, folder 6
Research and production file
circa 1982
box 40, item MS-F11-V52/54
Video recorded material
circa 1982
Physical Description: 3 u-matic tapes.
box 9, folder 7-8
Chicago Filmmakers performance and exhibit file
1982.
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 44 color slides and 13 printed color digital scans.
box 40, item MS-F11-V55
Video recorded material
1982
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 33, folder 5
"Touch the picture to hear a message about safer sex," printed digital scan in frame with battery-operated speaker
1997
box 9, folder 9
"The Varieties of cryptographic experience," research and production file and S.A.I.C. Gallery, Chicago performance and exhibit
file
1979
General Physical Description note: Includes 37 color slides.
box 40, item MS-F11-V56/57
Video recorded material
circa 1979
Physical Description: 2 u-matic tapes.
box 41, item MS-F11-V58/59
"A Video letter from Christine Tamblyn," video recorded material
1988
Physical Description: 2 u-matic tapes.
"A Video sampler," with John Manning
box 41, item MS-F11-V60/61
Research and production files, video recorded material
1976
Physical Description: 2 u-matic tapes
Performance and exhibit files
box 9, folder 10
Chicago Filmmakers
circa 1977
box 9, folder 11
Electronic activity under art surveillance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
circa 1976
"Warren writing," research and production files
box 41, item MS-F11-V62
Video recorded mastered material
1983
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 39, item MS-F11-V35
Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material
circa 1983
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
"Wishing well lounge," group show
box 9, folder 12
Research and production file
circa 1992
box 9, folder 13
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley performance and exhibit file
1992
General Physical Description note: Includes 3 black and white photographic prints.
box 9, folder 14
"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
Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains personal correspondence, curriculum vitae, journals, diaries, and photographs. Tamblyn's 1996 curriculum
vitae contains a comprehensive chronological list of her artwork, writings, and professional activities. Materials accumulated
by Tamblyn documenting her professional activities are filed in Series 5. This series also contains posthumously collected
materials documenting her life and art, including the multimedia CD-ROM
Archival Quality originally designed by Tamblyn, but completed and programmed by John Manning and Paul Tompkins after her death in 1998.
Arrangement
This series is arranged chronologically by format.
box 38, item MS-F11-A12
Autobiography, audio recorded material
undated
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 9, folder 15-22
Correspondence
1967-1997
Physical Description: 8 folders.
Scope and Contents note
Missing correspondence for 1979-1991 and 1993-1996.
box 9, folder 23-24
Curriculum vitae and professional biography
1982-1997
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 9, folder 26-28, box 10, folder 1-3
Journals and diaries
1968-1992
Physical Description: 6 folders.
box 38, item MS-F11-A11
Audio recorded material
1974
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 10, folder 4
Notes on personal artwork
circa 1981
Physical Description: 3 items.
box 10, folder 5
Photographs and slides
1968-1984.
General Physical Description note: 3 color photographic prints, 40 color slides, and 1 printed black and white digital scan.
Posthumously collected materials
box 10, folder 6-7
Archival quality, Los Angeles Center for Performing Arts exhibit materials
1998
box 10, folder 7
CD-ROM materials and user's guide
1998
box 44, item MS-F11-CD08
CD-ROM
1998
General Physical Description note: System requirements: MacOS 7.5 or greater or compatible, Quicktime 2.5 or greater, color monitor.
box 10, folder 9
Memorial and tribute
1998
box 10, folder 10
Obituaries and reflections on Tamblyn
box 10, folder 11
Selby, Judith. Cascade of lamentation
1998
Academic files Series 3.
1973-1996
Physical Description: 1.4 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series includes materials from Tamblyn's years as a student, from college through graduate school, and teacher. Materials
accumulated or produced by Tamblyn during times when she taught courses while still a graduate student are filed under Subseries
3.2. For artwork and artwork-related material produced during this period see Series 1.
Arrangement
The series is organized in 2 subseries:
- Subseries 3.1. Student files, 1973-1986. 1.1 linear ft.
- Subseries 3.2. Teaching files, 1978-1996. 1.3 linear ft.
Student files Subseries 3.1.
1973-1986
Physical Description: 1.1 Linear Feet
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains notebooks, article reprints, essays, papers, and other course assignments and materials. Tamblyn's
student notebooks contain lecture notes in addition to detailed research notes; observations on film, video, and performance
art; and ideas for individual artwork.
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by the institution with which Tamblyn was affiliated.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.F.A. program application
box 10, folder 13
Portfolio
1973
Physical Description: 10 color slides.
box 33, folder 6
Statement on works
circa 1977
box 10, folder 14
Film aesthetics course
circa 1975
box 10, folder 15-16
"A Greeting card from the second circle," course paper
1975
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 10, folder 17-18, box 11, folder 1-2
Notebooks
1974-circa 1976
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 11, folder 13-14
Unidentified, course materials
1974
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 11, folder 3
University of California, Berkeley Rhetoric 254, course materials
1985-1986
University of California, San Diego
box 11, folder 4
Notebook
circa 1984-circa 1985
box 11, folder 5
Performance art panel questions
circa 1984-circa 1985
box 11, folder 8-9
Visual Arts 290
1985
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 11, folder 10
Visual Arts 298, "Images and text"
1984
box 11, folder 11
First year review paper
circa 1982-circa 1985
box 11, folder 12
M.F.A. program application and course applications
1982
Teaching files Subseries 3.2.
1978-1996
Physical Description: 1.3 Linear Feet
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains lecture notes, teaching notebooks, assignments and exams, course preparation materials, formal course
proposals, awards, personnel files, and other administrative documents accumulated by Tamblyn during her career as a professor,
instructor, and lecturer. The bulk of these files document her courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San
Francisco State University, and Florida International University. There is a small amount of material documenting her work
at Mills College and the University of California, Irvine. There are no materials documenting her courses at the University
of California, Santa Cruz and the School of Visual Arts, Chicago. These files also contain material gathered by Tamblyn during
her appointment as a teaching assistant for Moira Roth's 19th and 20th Century Art class at the University of California,
San Diego. Job applications and correspondence relating to academic appointments are filed in Series 5.
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by the institution with which Tamblyn was affiliated.
Florida International University
box 12, folder 1
Course evaluations
1994-1996
box 12, folder 3
Art 3820, Visual thinking, course materials
1996
box 12, folder 2
Art 4681, Electronic media arts, syllabus
circa 1994-circa 1996
box 12, folder 3
Art 4681, Time arts, course materials
1996
box 12, folder 3
Art 4952C, Thesis I, course materials
1996
Examples of students' works. Definitions anthology.
box 42, folder MS-F11-V07
1994
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
box 42, folder MS-F11-V08
circa 1994-circa 1996
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
box 12, folder 4
Video Art course, Telezine project for Cable-T.A.P. television series
1994-1995
box 12, folder 6
Report on Time Arts course specialization and letter of resignation
1995-1996
box 12, folder 7
Mills College, Art History 138, Contemporary art, syllabus
1990
San Francisco Art Institute
box 42, folder MS-F11-V01
First gallery show
1990
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Includes works by John Baldessari, Peter Kirby, Robert Lougo, and others.
box 42, folder MS-F11-V02
Second gallery show
1990
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Includes work on Frida Kahlo.
box 12, folder 8
Art History 240.2, Graduate theory and criticism, course evaluations
1988
box 12, folder 9
Theorizing multi-cultural and political art, course proposal
1990
San Francisco State University
box 12, folder 10
Awards and contracts
1989-1992
box 12, folder 11-14
Course evaluations
1986-1992
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 12, folder 15
CTEA 730-731, Intersections, syllabi
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 15
CTEA 733, Intersections, syllabus
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 16
IAC 315, New directions in arts and self and other, syllabi
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 17
IAC 320, Contemporary writing on the arts and Review and criticism of the arts, syllabi
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 43, item MS-F11-V14
First class
1989
Physical Description: 1 hi-8 tape.
box 43, item MS-F11-V15/19
First through sixth classes
1989
Physical Description: 5 hi-8 tapes.
box 43, item MS-F11-V20
Sixth class
1989
Physical Description: 1 hi-8 tape.
box 12, folder 18
IAC 707, Collaborative processes in the arts, syllabus
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 19
IAC 710, Art as experience and Inter-Arts theory and criticism, syllabi
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 20
IAC 720, Alternative documentary forms, syllabus
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 42, item MS-F11-V06
IAC 733, examples of students' works
circa 1986-circa 1992
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
box 12, folder 21
IAC 850, course handouts
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 22
Technology, art, and culture, syllabus
1992
box 12, folder 24
Faculty evaluations
1991-1993
box 12, folder 25
Faculty interview
circa 1986-circa 1992
box 12, folder 26
Memoranda, course proposals, and reports
1986-1991
box 12, folder 27
Statement of research and teaching interest
circa 1986-circa 1992
School of the Art Institute of Chicago course materials
box 12, folder 28
Video extensions: performance
1978
box 13, folder 1-2
Video production
1978-1979
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 13, folder 3
Visiting artist arrangement for John Sturgeon
1978
box 13, folder 4
Young artists' studio video
1978-1979
University of California, Berkeley
Examples of students' works
box 43, item MS-F11-V21
Filmed material
1991
Physical Description: 1 hi-8 tape.
box 42, item MS-F11-V03
Video recorded material
1989-1991
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Includes works by Marjorie Franklin, Florence Yoo, Victoria Peterson, and Dan Daniel.
Art 141, Temporal structures
box 42, item MS-F11-V04
Examples of students' works
1991
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Hieroglyphics collaborative class project.
box 42, item MS-F11-V05
Final performances
1990
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
box 13, folder 6
Art 204, syllabus
1991
General Physical Description note: Includes 15 color slides.
box 13, folder 7
University of California, Irvine, ArtsBridge N.E.H. grant proposal
1996
University of California, San Diego course materials
box 13, folder 8-10
VA 14, 19th and 20th century art, syllabus and notes
1985
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 16 color slides.
box 13, folder 11-12
VA 71, Introduction to media, syllabus and notes
1984-1985
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Writings Series 4.
1962-1997
Physical Description: 6.7 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of Tamblyn's published and unpublished works, the majority published in journals and newspapers. For
articles by Tamblyn or others exclusively concerning her individual artwork, see Series 1.
Arrangement
The series is organized in 2 subseries:
- Subseries 4.1. By Tamblyn, 1962-1997. 6.5 linear ft.
- Subseries 4.2. About Tamblyn, 1978-1997. 0.2 linear ft.
By Tamblyn Subseries 4.1.
1962-1997
Physical Description: 6.5 Linear Feet
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries comprises files of Tamblyn's published works, consisting of holographs, typescripts, drafts, research notes
and materials, proofs and tearsheets of articles, photographic prints, reviews, exhibit catalogs, and essays. This subseries
also contains numerous unpublished works by Tamblyn, including her extensive research notes and holograph drafts of her history
of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her overview of Chicago video art and artists, and a biographical work on Lynn
Hershman-Leeson titled
Artlife. In many cases the publication in which the piece appeared is included as part of the file. Correspondence directly related
to the written material is also included. Transcriptions of Tamblyn's performances are filed under the title of the work in
Series 1. Material documenting Tamblyn's work as a curator, including exhibits for which she wrote catalog essays as a curator,
are filed in Series 5.
Arrangement
The subseries is arranged alphabetically by the title of the piece. Book and journal titles are placed in italics. Article
and chapter titles are placed in quotes. Dates of publication are indicated within parentheses. Date ranges mark earliest
and latest dates of individual items within the files.
box 14, folder 1
Addressing herself: female sexuality, self-representation, transformation (1994), catalog for exhibit at The Lab, San Francisco
1994
box 14, folder 2-3
"Against nature: Japanese art in the eighties,"
Art news (1989), review
1989
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 1 black and white photographic print.
box 14, folder 4
"All over the place,"
New art examiner (1977), review of exhibit at Moming, Chicago
1977
box 14, folder 5
"Am I in the picture/are pictures in me: Michael Smith and William Wegman's
The World of photography," SF Camerawork (1987), review
1987
box 14, folder 6
"Ambiguities and associations,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by John Baldessari
1986
box 14, folder 7-10
"American landscape video: the electronic grove,"
High performance (1989), review
1988-1989
General Physical Description note: 4 folders, including 2 black and white photographic prints.
box 14, folder 11
"Armand Schwerner and Ellen Zweig, 'Everything you're giving me is just things you're giving me',"
High performance (1987), review
1987
box 14, folder 12
"Art historians go to the movies,"
Afterimage (1985), article
1985
box 14, folder 13-14
"Backward looks at nature,"
Artweek (1988), review of works by Mark Thompson and Gina Lamb
1987-1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 14, folder 15
"Barbara Latham, 1947-1984,"
Afterimage (1984), obituary
1984
box 14, folder 16
"Barbara Latham, 1947-1984,"
The Independent (1984), obituary
1984
box FB-027, folder 7
Oversize material
1984
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 14, folder 17
"Bay Area figurative art, 1950-1965,"
Art news (1990), review of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit
1990
box 14, folder 18
"Bay Area media,"
High performance (1990), review of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit
1990
General Physical Description note: Includes 2 black and white photographic prints.
box 18, folder 22
"Benjamin Sarao" (1976), review
1976
box 14, folder 19
"Berkeley: freshness, surprise, and horror,"
Art news (1991), review of University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley exhibit
1991
box 14, folder 20-21
"Between Charybdis and Scylla: a correspondence about alternative media (with Helen De Michiel),"
Cinematograph (1991), article
1991
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 14, folder 22
"Black and white,"
VAD (UCSD Visual Arts Department) (1983), article
1983
box 15, folder 1-2
"Blasted allegories,"
Afterimage (1988), book review
1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 15, folder 3
"Border art workshop/Taller de arte fronterica,"
Shift (1989), interview with Guillermo Gomez Peña and Robert Sánchez
1989
box 38, item MS-F11-A13
Audio recorded material
circa 1989
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 15, folder 4
"Boundaries and milestones:
Video culture: a critical investigation," Artweek (1987), book review
1987
box 15, folder 5-7
"Boys club, craft hut, carnival or cyberspace?: the San Francisco art scene,"
High performance (1993), article
1990-1993
General Physical Description note: 3 folders, including 5 black and white photographic prints.
box 15, folder 8
"The Brain,"
Theory & flesh (1986), article
1986
box 15, folder 9
"Bridging art and broadcast: American Film Institute's 'New works' series,"
Artweek (1989), review
1989
box 14, folder 4
"A brief history of performance,"
New art examiner (1977), article
1977
box 38, item MS-F11-A14
Audio recorded material
circa 1977
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 15, folder 10
"Carlos Loarca,"
Art news (1989), review
1982-1989
box 15, folder 11
"Carrie Lederer/Five Bay Area sculptors"
Art news (1989), review
1985-1987
box 14, folder 15
"Charles Fahlen/Louis Peck,"
New art examiner (1979), review
1979
box 14, folder 15
"The Chicago and vicinity show,"
New art examiner (1981), review
1981
box 15, folder 12
"Chicago artists perform,"
New art examiner, (1979), review
1979
box 33, folder 7
Oversize material
1979
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 15, folder 13
"Chicago performance: an annotated guide,"
High performance (1982), article
1982
General Physical Description note: Includes 2 photographic prints.
box 15, folder 14
"Christopher Brown,"
Art news (1990), review
1980-1990
box 15, folder 15-18
Cinematograph (1988), marginality and filmmaking theme issue edited by Tamblyn
1986-1989
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 16, folder 1-3
"Computer art as conceptual art,"
Art journal (1990), article
1982-1992
General Physical Description note: Includes 3 color and 4 black and white photographic prints.
box 16, folder 4
"Confessions of a feminist pedagogue,"
Exposure (1991), article
1990-1991
box 16, folder 5
"Co-opting the context,"
Artweek (1987), review of works by Tony Labat
1987
box 16, folder 6
"Cybernetic technologies: neither utopian templates nor dystopian harbingers,"
Techno/logical imagination: machines in the garden of art (1989), book chapter
1989
box 16, folder 7
"Daniel Reeves,"
Art news (1989), review
1988-1989
General Physical Description note: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.
box 16, folder 8
"Darryl Sapien,"
Art news (1988), review
1988
box 16, folder 9
"David Anderson/Susan Schimke,"
Art news (1994), review
1994
box 16, folder 10
"David Ireland,"
Art news (1989), review
1989
box 16, folder 11
"Demilitarized zone in Chicago video,"
New art examiner (1978), review of Chicago Editing Center
1978
box 16, folder 12
"Designer video: the A.F.I. National Video Festival,"
Afterimage (1984), review
1984
box 16, folder 13
"Diamonds in the rough: Video Refuses Festival,"
Shift (1988), review
1988
box FB-027, folder 7
Oversize material
1988
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 16, folder 14-15
"Digital photography: Captured Images/Volatile Memory/New Montage at S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco,"
CEPA journal (1989), review
1988-1989
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 16, folder 16
"Disorders of the real," High performance (1989), book review
1989
box 15, folder 8
"Dream text,"
Theory & flesh (1986), article
1986
box 16, folder 17
"Electronic art pioneers,"
The Independent (1993), review of works by Daniel Sandin, Robert Snyder, and John Manning
1993
box 16, folder 18
"Endangered species,"
Chimaera (1992), book chapter, review of works by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
1992
box 16, folder 5
"The eye of the beholder,"
Artweek (1987), review of works by Alan Rath
1987
box 16, folder 19
"Far from the maddening commerce,"
Artweek (1986), review of The Gold Rush/The Odd Object exhibit at San Francisco Art Institute
1986
General Physical Description note: Includes 12 color and 1 black and white photographic prints.
box 16, folder 20
"Francesc Torres:
Destiny, entropy, junk," High performance (1990), review
1990
General Physical Description note: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.
box 16, folder 21
"The Function of the arts in culture today,"
High performance, article
circa 1975/circa 1995
box 16, folder 22
"A Fusing of cultures,"
Artweek (1988), review of works by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger
1988
box 16, folder 23
"Gift every day,"
The Act (1990), article
1989-1990
box 17, folder 1
"Guerilla television or 'Get the guests'? Godard TV debut at Pacific Film Archives,"
Video Networks (1986), review
1986
box 17, folder 2-4
"The Hair of the dog that bit us,"
New feminist criticism: art, identity, action (1994), book chapter
1990-1994
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 17, folder 5
"A History of mistakes,"
Artweek (1987), review of works by Jeanne Finley
1987
box 17, folder 6-10
"Hotel California: the 1985 San Francisco International Video Festival,"
Afterimage (1985), review
1981-1986.
Physical Description: 5 folders.
box 17, folder 11
"Hung Liu: 'Reading room, 'Resident alien',"
High performance (1988), review
1987-1988
box 17, folder 12
"Hybridized art/Bay Area performance: A critical sketch,"
Artweek (1990), article
1990
box 18, folder 8
"Ilona Granet,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 17, folder 13
"Image processing in Chicago video art, 1970-1980,"
Leonardo (1991), article
1988-1991
box 17, folder 14
"Images of manipulation,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by Barbara DeGenevieve, Ann Wulff, and Lutz Bacher
1972-1988
box 17, folder 5
"Interactions with shoes,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by Sonya Rapoport
1986
box 17, folder 15
"Introductions '88,"
Art news (1988), review of works by Enrique Chagoya, Frank Cole, and Jane Degenhardt Kutzer
1988
box 17, folder 16
"James Lee Byars,"
High performance (1987), review
1981-1987.
General Physical Description note: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.
box 16, folder 11
"James Grigsby,"
New art examiner (1978), review
1978
box 17, folder 17
"James Morris,"
Art news (1990), review
1989-1990
box 18, folder 22
"Jeffrey Deutsch,"
New art examiner (1976), review
1976
box 17, folder 5
"Jim Pomeroy," (1986), catalog essay for New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1986
box 17, folder 18
"Joe Sam,"
Art news (1987), review
1987
box 17, folder 19
"John Baldessari,"
Art news (1990), review
1990
box 16, folder 11
"John White,"
New art examiner (1978), review
1978
box 17, folder 20
"Joyan Saunders,"
Blackflash (1987), review
1983-1987
box 18, folder 22
"Ken Kashian,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 18, folder 22
"Laurie Anderson,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 18, folder 1
"Lynn Hershman,"
Art news (1990), review
1990
box 18, folder 2
"Lynn Hershman's narrative anti-narratives,"
Afterimage (1986), review
1986
box 18, folder 3
"Machine dreams,"
Afterimage (1988), review of Digital Photography: Captured Imagery/Volatile Memory/New Montage exhibit at S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco
1988
box 18, folder 4
"Made in U.S.A.,"
Art News (1987), review of works at University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley
1987
box 18, folder 5
"Manifestations of thought: the Borofsky exhibition,"
U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly Newsletter (1985), review
1985
box 18, folder 6
"Mark Durant's 'Displaced persons'" (1988), essay for exhibit at X.S. Gallery, Western Nevada Community College
1987-1988
box FB-027, folder 7
Oversize material
1987
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 18, folder 7
"Mary Lucier,"
High performance (1986), review
1986
box 18, folder 22
"Mary Ahrendt and Leslie Wolfe" (1979), review
1979
box 18, folder 8
"Mary Jane Dougherty, Shirley Federow, Helene Fine, Peg Griffith, Margaret Phillips, Ellie Specht,"
New art examiner (1976), review
1976
box 14, folder 15
"Merce Cunningham,"
Scan (1982), review
1982
box 18, folder 22
"Meredeth Monk,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 18, folder 9-10
"Meridel Rubenstein and Gregory Mahoney,"
Art news (1988), review
1987-1988.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box FB-027, folder 7
Oversize material
1988
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 18, folder 22
"Michael McClard"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 18, folder 8
"Michael Smith,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 18, folder 11
"The Mill Valley Festival,"
Artweek (1985), review
1985
box 18, folder 12
"Miro Svolik,"
Art News (1989), review
1989
box 18, folder 13-14
"Monitoring the vital signs: the American Film Institute Video Festival,"
Visions (1991), review
1990-1991
box FB-027, folder 8
Oversize material
1990
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 18, folder 15-18
"Multiple identities,"
The Independent (1994), article
1993-1994.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 33, folder 8
Oversize material
circa 1993-circa 1994
Physical Description: 4 items.
box 18, folder 19-20
"Nathan Oliveira,"
Art news (1988), review
1962-1987.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 18, folder 21
"New approches to feminist theory,"
High performance (1987), article
1985-1987
box 18, folder 22
New art examiner, reviews
1976-1979
Physical Description: 9 articles.
box 19, folder 1-5
"No more nice girls: recent transgressive feminist art,"
C.A.A. Journal (1991), article
1988-1990
Physical Description: 5 folders.
box FB-027, folder 8
Oversize material
circa 1988-circa 1990
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 19, folder 6-7
"Paul Pratchenko,"
Art news (1989), review
1986-1989.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 19, folder 8
"Pegan Brooke,"
Art news (1987), review
1987
box 19, folder 9-10
Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death (2000), book chapter
1991-1992
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 19, folder 11
"Performance: déjà vu" (1977), essay for Performance/Midway exhibit at Midway Studios, Chicago
1977
box 19, folder 12
"Performance: déjà vu,"
New art examiner (1977), review of works at Midway Studios, Chicago
1977
box 19, folder 13-14
"The Photographer's progress,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by Judy Dater
1983-1986
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 19, folder 15-16
"Poses and positions,"
Artweek (1987), review of works by Robert Mapplethorpe
1981-1987.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 33, folder 9
Oversize material
1983
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 19, folder 17
In due season (1976)
1976
box 20, folder 1
"Qualifying the quotidian: artist's video and the production of social space,"
Resolutions: contemporary video practices (1996), book chapter
1996
box 20, folder 2-3
"A Question of timing,"
Artweek (1988), review of Sexual difference: both sides of the camera exhibit at New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1987-1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 20, folder 4
R.F. Buckley (1995), catalog for exhibit at Florida International University Art Museum
1995
box 14, folder 6
"Reaching out to the unknown,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by Dorit Cypis, Leeny Sack, Leslie Thornton, and Ellen Zweig
1986
box 20, folder 5
"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
box 20, folder 6
"Real grumblings and pseudo-science,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by Jim Pomeroy
1986
box 20, folder 7-8
"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.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 20, folder 9
"Reinventing the comic book,"
Artweek (1987), review of works by Minette Lehmann
1987
box FB-027, folder 7
Oversize material
1987
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 20, folder 10-12
"Remote control: the electronic transference,"
Processed lives: gender and technology in everyday life (1997), book chapter
1993-1997
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 20, folder 13
"Richard Horner" (1986), review
1986
box 18, folder 5
"Riddles and evocations,"
Artweek (1985), review of works by Dan Ake and Gordon Holler
1985
box 20, folder 14
"A ritual for bells,"
Artweek (1986), review of works by Paul Kos
1986
box 20, folder 15-16
"The River of swill: feminist art, sexual codes, and censorship,"
Afterimage (1990), article
1990
General Physical Description note: 2 folders. Includes use copy of 1990 draft.
box 35 RESTRICTED , folder 1
Draft
1990
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to fragile original is restricted.
box 20, folder 17
"Robert McCauley,"
Art news (1988), review
1988
box 16, folder 5
"Rupert Garcia/Christopher Lane,"
Art news (1988), review
1988
box 20, folder 18
San Francisco Art Institute 111th Annual Exhibition (1992), catalog essay
1992
box 20, folder 19
"Sebastião Salgado,"
Art news (1991), review
1990-1991
box 20, folder 20
Sex with strangers: some of the things at stake in women's struggles (1986), with Lutz Bacher, book
1986
box FB-021, folder 6
Oversize material
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 21, folder 1
"Shu Lea Cheang: the airwaves Project,"
High performance (1991), review
1991
box 21, folder 2
"Sigmar Polke,"
Art news (1991), review
1990-1991
General Physical Description note: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.
box 21, folder 3
"Significant others: social documentary as personal portraiture in women's video of the '80s,"
Illuminating video: an essential guide to video art (1990), book chapter
1988-1992
General Physical Description note: Includes 4 black and white photographic prints.
box 20, folder 6
"Skip Sweeney,"
High performance (1986), review
1986
box 21, folder 4
"Space invaders: a postmodern paradigm for video installations,"
Intermedia Arts Minnesota: Jerome Media Arts installations (1987), catalog essay
1987
box 21, folder 5
"Spectacular visions: video art,"
Yesterday and tomorrow: California women artists (1989), book chapter
1988-1989
box 21, folder 6
"Squeak Carnwath/Roseline Delisle,"
Art news (1989), review
1989.
General Physical Description note: Includes 1 photographic print.
box 21, folder 7
"Stage presence: sculpture as used in performance,"
High performance (1986), review of exhibit at San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery
1986
box 14, folder 4
"Structuralist filmmakers,"
New art examiner (1977), review of works at Chicago Filmmakers Summer Series
1977
box 38, item MS-F11-A14
Audio recorded material
circa 1977
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 21, folder 8
"Su-Chen Hung: 'Sweet red 1',"
High performance (1987), review
1987
box 21, folder 9-14
"Subversion and spectacle: recent trends in California performance art,"
New writing in arts criticism (1988) and
New Langton Arts catalog (1989), article
1980-1989
General Physical Description note: 6 folders, including 5 black and white and 1 color photographs.
box FB-027, folder 8
Oversize material
1982
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 21, folder 15
"Susan Shaw,"
Art news (1988), review
1988
box 18, folder 22
"Suzanne Lacy, Jared Bark, Scott Burton, John Hassell,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 22, folder 1
"Sylvia Lark,"
Art news (1988), review
1984-1988
box 22, folder 2
"Sylvia Lark: abstracting radiance" (1991), memorial address
1991
box 22, folder 3
"T.V. Guide:
Transmission: theory and practice for a new television aesthetics," Afterimage (1986), book review
1985-1986
box 22, folder 4-6
"Technopop: Victor Landweber, Max Almy/Two personal commentaries on American life,"
Afterimage (1985), review
1982-1985
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 18, folder 22
"Tom Jaremba,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 22, folder 7
"This property has been repossessed,"
Framework (1989), review of works by John Adams,
1989
box 16, folder 11
"Third Electronic Visualization Event (First National Bank Auditorium, Chicago),"
New art examiner (1978), review
1978
box 22, folder 8
"Three electronic art pioneers,"
Independent (1993), review of works by John Manning, Daniel Sandin, and Bob Snyder,
1988-1993
General Physical Description note: Includes 6 color and 1 black and white photographic prints.
box 18, folder 5
"Three views of families,"
Artweek (1985), review
1985
box 22, folder 9-10
"To live and die in L.A.,"
Afterimage (1988), review of American Film Institute Video Festival,
1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 33, folder 10
"Tony Oursler/Wendy Clarke,"
Art notes (1981), review
1981-1982
box 22, folder 11-17
Tour de force: the journal of the French pastry path to enlightenment (1974-1975), journal edited and published by Tamblyn
1974-1975
Physical Description: 6 folders.
box 22, folder 18
"True confessions of a techno-junkie,"
Talkback (1995), article
1995
Unpublished works and publication projects
box 22, folder 19
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
box 23, box 24, folder 1-5
Artlife, book project on Lynn Hershman-Leeson
1977-1992
General Physical Description note: Includes 4 black and white photographic prints and 6 color slides. 16 folders.
box 24, folder 6
Bill Burke: ledgers of transience, review
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 24, folder 7-12, box 25, folder 1-2
Chicago video art and artists, book project
1973-1994
General Physical Description note: Includes 1 photographic print. 8 folders.
box 33, folder 11
Oversize material
1987
Physical Description: 3 items.
box 25, folder 3
Erotics of computer art, article
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 25, folder 4
Evaluation of Michael McManus'
Video and the literary imagination, book review
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 25, folder 5
Festival of New Arts, San Diego, review of works by Karen Finley and Harry Kipper
1983
box 25, folder 6-9
History of the Art Institute of Chicago, article
1979-1982
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 38, item MS-F11-A14
Audio recorded material
circa 1977
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 25, folder 10
Micro-politics and new genres in video and performance art of the 1980's, book project
1989
box 25, folder 11
Miscellaneous typescript and holograph reviews
circa 1977
box 25, folder 12-14
New Canadian Narrative video exhibit, review
circa 1988
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 25, folder 15
Richard Bolton, review
circa 1990
box 25, folder 16
Robert Snyder, review
1984-1988
box 25, folder 17
Soft intelligence: electronic subjectivities and performance, book project
1994
box 25, folder 18
Untitled Gallery, San Francisco exhibit, review
1991
box 25, folder 19
Video Free America, San Francisco exhibit, review
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 26, folder 1
"Useless tools: the hybrid sculpture of
Alan Rath," Alan Rath (1992), catalog essay
1991-1992
box 26, folder 2
"Van Deren Coke,"
Art news (1988), review
1988
box 26, folder 3
"Victor Burgin's
Office at night and Allan Sekula's
Geography lesson: Canadian notes," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (1987), review
1987
box 26, folder 4
"Video art: an historical sketch,"
High performance (1987), article
1987
box 26, folder 5
"Video art: an historical sketch,"
Media U.S.A.: process and effect (1991), book chapter
1991
box 26, folder 6
"Video art, ethics, and television,"
Ethique & television (1988), catalog essay for 4th International Video Festival, Montebeliard, France
1988
box 16, folder 18
"Video criticism: paradigms and parasites,"
Media arts (1990), article
1990
box 26, folder 7
"The Video Data Bank" (1981), program notes for the Video/Diary show at The School of the Art Institute Film Center, Chicago
1981
box 18, folder 8
"Video roundup,"
New art examiner (1976), review of works by Annette Barbier, Denise Kunkel, and Catherine de Jong
1976
box 26, folder 8-9
"Virtual memories,"
High performance (1991), review of Ansel Adams Center exhibit, San Francisco
1991
General Physical Description note: 2 folders, including 1 black and white photographic print.
box 17, folder 5
"Voyages of the mind,"
Artweek (1987), review of works by Steve Fagin
1987
box 26, folder 10
"Whose life is it, anyway?,"
Afterimage (1987), review of works by Leslie Thornton, Woody Vasulka, Steve Fagin, and Ellen Zweig
1987
box 33, folder 12
Oversize material
circa 1987
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 26, folder 11
"William Allan,"
Art news (1987), review
1987
box 16, folder 11
"William Wiley,"
New art examiner (1977), review
1977
box 16, folder 11
"Willy Heeks,"
New art examiner (1979), review
1979
box 26, folder 12
"Women recording themselves,"
Artweek (1988), review of Personal Histories exhibit at Through the Flower Gallery, Benicia
1984-1988
box 26, folder 13
"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
Physical Description: 0.2 Linear Feet
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains clippings, reprints, announcements, reviews, and articles concerning Tamblyn's artwork in general.
This subseries also contains published and videotaped interviews with Tamblyn. Published material concerning her individual
artwork is filed in Series 1.
Arrangement
Files are arranged chronologically.
box 42, item MS-F11-V09
2 at noon, news program featuring exhibit by Robert Mapplethorpe
1990
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Television appearance by Tamblyn.
box 42, item MS-F11-V10
An open window, University of California Berkeley cable television series, "History and meaning of video art"
1991
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Conversation with Tamblyn, moderated by Steve Seid.
box 38, item MS-F11-A15
Interview, interlocutors unidentified
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
Professional files Series 5.
1978-1997
Physical Description: 1.9 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of notes, typescripts, correspondence, proposals, programs, posters, and ephemera documenting Tamblyn's
employment and her professional participation in a variety of national and international activities. The bulk of these files
document Tamblyn's participation in conferences, workshops, symposia, lectures, and festivals, as well as her work as an exhibit
curator and juror. This series also contains files documenting her awards, grants, and funding.
For Tamblyn's curriculum vitae, see Series 2. For grant and funding documentation relating to her specific artwork, see Series
1. Materials relating to her employment as a teacher are filed in Subseries 3.2.
Arrangement
This series is arranged topically. Conference and professional meeting files, and curator and juror files are arranged chronologically
by the year of the event and therein by the name of the event or sponsoring organization.
box 27, folder 6
Awards in the Visual Arts national artists award
1988
box 37
Festival internacional de la imagen, Manizales, Columbia
1997
Conference and professional meeting files
box 27, folder 7
1978, Women's perspectives on performance art, panelist, Mid-America College Art Association 42nd annual conference
1978
box 27, folder 8
1980, Women's art: speculating about the future, panelist, Women and Children First, Chicago
1980
box 27, folder 9
1981, Teaching performance art in an art school and university setting, Mid-America College Art Association 45th annual conference
1981
box 27, folder 10
1985, After Orwell, Sushi, San Diego
1985
box 33, folder 13
Oversize material
1985
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 38, item MS-F11-A16
Ex(centric) lady travellers, moderator, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, audio recorded material
1986.
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 27, folder 11
Performance art and experimental theater, panelist, San Francisco State University
1986
box 27, folder 12-13
Locally under-rated, nationally over-rated, panelist, Richmond Art Center, CA
1987.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 27, folder 14
New works, panelist, American Film Institute national video festival, Los Angeles
1987
box 27, folder 15
An Overview of California women's video and performance art, presenter, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
1987
box 27, folder 18
Conceptual, how you've changed, panelist, Bay Area Consortium for the Visual Arts, San Francisco
1988
box 27, folder 19-20
Postmodern vocabulary, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute summer art writing conference
1988.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 27, folder 21
Re-visionary film: fantasy scenarios, moderator, Cinematheque/Cinematograph, San Francisco
1988
box 27, folder 22-24
The Way we look, the way we see: art criticism for women in the '90s, panelist, University of California, Los Angeles
1987-1988
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 27, folder 25
Changes in women's art issues, 1970-1990, panelist, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1989
box 27, folder 26
The Climate of censorship: artists respond, panelist, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1989.
General note
See also "Curator and juror files, 1989, Tableaux vivants" in this series for more material.
box 27, folder 27
Criticism as art (The Critic as artist/criticism as a work of art), panelist, California State University, Hayward
1989.
General Physical Description note: Includes 11 black and white slides.
box 27, folder 28-29
Criticism: as rhetoric, as cult identity, as social practice, panelist, Small Press Distribution Company, Berkeley
1988-1989
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 28, folder 1
Critics' roundtable, panelist, City of Oakland
1989
box 28, folder 2
Developing media criticism, panelist, National Alliance of Media Art Centers conference, Rochester, NY
1989
box 38, item MS-F11-A17
Audio recorded material
1989
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 28, folder 3
New forms of expression: video diaries from literature to electronics, panelist, New American Makers, San Francisco
1989
box 28, folder 4
Other disciplines, other forms, moderator, San Francisco Art Institute summer art writing conference
1989
box 28, folder 5
Plugging into the matrix, technology and art in a virtual society, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1989
box 28, folder 6-9
Sexual representation and feminist transgression in film, video, and photography, moderator, Society for Photographic Education
national conference
1985-1989.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box FB-027, folder 9
Oversize material
1986
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 28, folder 10-11
The Spiritual in California art: pro and con, panelist, College Art Association 77th annual meeting, San Francisco
1989
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 28, folder 12-14
The Technological imagination: machines in the garden of art, panelist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
1989-1990
Physical Description: 3 folders.
folder XOS 1
Oversize material
1989
Physical Description: 1 item.
The Video art potential, panelist, Women's Caucus for Art national conference, San Francisco
1989
box 38, item MS-F11-A18
Audio recorded material
1989
Physical Description: 1 Cassettes
box 28, folder 15
The Woman question: taking positions/taking positions apart, panelist, College Art Association national conference, San Francisco
1988-1989
box 28, folder 16
Against the law, panelist, Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Monterey, CA
1990
box 28, folder 17
Another way of seeing: encounters with contemporary art, presenter, California State University, Fresno
1989-1990
box 28, folder 18
The Collective "I," panelist, San Francisco State University
1990
box FB-027, folder 9
Oversize material
1990
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 28, folder 19-20
Feminist pedagogy: the double voice, panelist, Society for Photographic Education national conference
1989-1990
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 28, folder 21
Present and future: addressing the current arts emergency and setting the agenda for the '90s, panelist, San Francisco Art
Institute
1990
box FB-027, folder 9
Oversize material
1990
Physical Description: 2 items.
box 28, folder 22
Surviving as an artist, panelist, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
1990
box FB-027, folder 9
Oversize material
1990
Physical Description: 1 item.
box 29, folder 1
Art and the forbidden: images of female aggression, moderator, School of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University
1991
box 38, item MS-F11-A19/20
Audio recorded material
1991
Physical Description: 2 Cassettes
box 29, folder 2
Critical responsibility, panelist, San Francisco Art Dealers' Association seminar series, San Francisco
1991
box 29, folder 3-4
Interdisciplinary teaching in the arts, presenter, Arizona State University, Phoenix
1991-1992
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 29, folder 5
On becoming a performance artist, panelist, Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia
1991
box 29, folder 6
Rewriting the canon, panelist, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael
1991
box 38, item MS-F11-A21/22
Audio recorded material
1991
Physical Description: 2 Cassettes
box 29, folder 7
Women in contemporary photography, lecturer, Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1991
box 29, folder 8
The Camcorder revolution: utilizing low-end video, panelist, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco
1992
box 29, folder 9-11
Female aggression: crimes against patriarchy, moderator, Feminism, activism, and art conference, San Francisco
1992
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 29, folder 12
Media map, panelist, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1992
box 29, folder 13-14
Postmodernism in the classroom, panelist, Society for Photographic Education national conference
1991-1992
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 29, folder 15-16
Body doubles: society, sexuality, and the visual image, panelist, Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1993
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 29, folder 17-18
Living with a legacy: regional history and cultural heritage, panelist, College Art Association 81st annual conference, Seattle
1993
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 33, folder 14
Theories of aesthetics and criticism of art in the age of electronic media, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute
1993
box 29, folder 19
Altered egos, constructed bios, and other fictions, panelist, Santa Monica Museum of Art
1994
box 29, folder 20
Nintendo killed the video star, panelist, Australian International Video Art Symposium, Sydney
1994
box 29, folder 21
Arte por computadora, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Managua, Nicaragua
1995
box 29, folder 22
Dance, myth, and ritual in the Americas, panelist, Congress on Research in Dance, Miami
1995
box 29, folder 23
Digital identities, technologies of meaning, panelist, Society for Photographic Education 32nd national conference, Atlanta,
GA
1995
box 29, folder 24
Duchamp's legacy (Duchamp's leg/Duchamp: beyond modernism exhibit), lecturer, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami
1995
General Physical Description note: Includes 3 color photographic prints.
box 29, folder 25
Exposicion de arte, presenter, Casa de Los Leones, Granada, Nicaragua
1995
box 29, folder 26-27
Joseph Beuys: drawings, objects, prints, lecturer and moderator, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami
1995.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 1
Critical studies symposium #3, panelist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills
1996
box 30, folder 2
Mechanical brides, lecturer, International Center for Digital Arts, San Francisco
1996
box 30, folder 3
Electronic arts and the concept of the
Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), panelist, College Art Association 85th annual conference, New York
1997
box 30, folder 4
Film in the arena of art, panelist, San Francisco
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 30, folder 5
Love and hate: Joanna Frueh mouthpiece, panelist, The Lab, San Francisco
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 41, item MS-F11-V63
Meridal Rubinstein video recorded class presentation, lecturer
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
box 30, folder 6-7
Miscellaneous lecture and presentation notes
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 42, item MS-F11-V11
Misha Berson video recorded class presentation, lecturer, San Francisco State University
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
Scope and Contents note
Presentation features Chained reactions, Pathetic fallacy, and discussion of works by over 35 artists.
box 30, folder 8
1985, Chicago imagist video, curator, The Eye Gallery, San Francisco
1985
box 30, folder 9
1986, mapping one place onto another, curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1986
box 30, folder 10
Experiments in form, juror, San Francisco International Film Festival
1987
box 17, folder 21, box 30, folder 11
The Lively arts: video and performance (2 part series), curator, The Fresno Arts Center and Museum
1987
box 30, folder 12
Beyond the camera obscura, curator (with David Bedell), San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1988
box 30, folder 13-14
Headlands Center for the Arts national residency program, juror, Sausalito, California
1988.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 15-16
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art video award, juror, San Francisco Museum of Art
1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 33, folder 15
Western States Regional Media N.E.A. Fellowhips, Rocky Mountain Media Center, Boulder, Colorado
1988
box 30, folder 17-19
Intercultural film/video fellowship national nominating committee, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York
1988-1989
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 30, folder 20
Intersection for the Arts exhibit, San Francisco, juror
1989
box 30, folder 21-25
Palo Alto film and video festival, juror, California
1987-1989
Physical Description: 5 folders.
box 30, folder 26-31
Tableaux vivants, curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1989-1990.
Physical Description: 6 folders.
General note
See also 1989 Climate of censorship conference files for more materials.
box 42, item MS-F11-V12
Billie Lynn protest and rally to boycott the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1989
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
box 30, folder 32
1991, annual photography show, juror, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1991
box 30, folder 33
Public Art Video Installation Commission for St. Rose of Lima Park, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, juror, Sacramento
1994
box 30, folder 34
"A Simultaneous view of history: an examination of the landscape of history,"
Leonardo, reviewer
1994
box 30, folder 35
Cultural democracy: politics, identity, new media, reviewer, State University of New York Press
1995
box 30, folder 36-37
5 Cyberconf, juror, Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia de Telefonica, Madrid
1995-1996
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 31, folder 1
Video annuale, juror, L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
1995
box 31, folder 2
1996, California State University, Fullerton Grand Central Art Center project, participant, Santa Ana, California
1996
box 31, folder 4
Letters of recommendation
1985-1996
Exhibit, performance, and conference proposals
box 31, folder 5
Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit, Chicago
1994
box 31, folder 6
The Business of culture: issues of control, questions of influence, Artlink Inc. exhibit
1991
box 31, folder 7
Changing the subject, San Francisco Art Institute exhibit
1992
box 31, folder 8
Computer art: theoretical perspectives panel, S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '91
1991
box 31, folder 9
Electronic media arts symposium
1994
box 31, folder 10
Franklin Furnace emerging artists performance and installation program
1992
box 31, folder 11
New Vision festival, Tigertail Productions
1996
box 31, folder 12
Symposium on lesbian and gay media, Frameline
1984
box 31, folder 13
Fellowship application for California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 31, folder 14
Grant proposal, South Florida Cultural Consortium
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 33, folder 16
Residency material, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta
1994
box FB-028, folder 4
Oversize material
1994
Physical Description: 1 item.
Research files Series 6.
circa 1976-1997
Physical Description: 0.7 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains a wide-ranging collection of brochures, clippings, flyers, press releases, and other printed materials
collected by Tamblyn, documenting various conferences, colloquia, and workshop relating to the arts. This series also contains
materials documenting performances, exhibits, and artists. This subseries is particularly strong in materials from the San
Francisco Bay area from the 1990s. Some of these materials are related to Tamblyn's long-term interests in specific art works,
artists, or issues affecting the art community. In particular, she collected material documenting censorship in the arts in
1990, especially the debate over works by Robert Mapplethorpe. This series also contains videorecordings and photographic
prints.
For material collected by Tamblyn for conferences, workshops, symposia, lectures, and festivals that she participated in,
see Series 5.
Arrangement
Files are arranged topically.
Artist and topical materials
box FB-027, folder 10
Censorship issues
1990
Physical Description: 4 items.
box 31, folder 15
Greengold, Jane
1983-1986
box 31, folder 16
Jacobi, Kathryn
1986-1992.
General Physical Description note: Includes 3 black and white photographic prints.
box 33, folder 18
Lehmann, Minette
1983-1992
box FB-027, folder 10
Oversize material
circa 1983-circa 1992
Physical Description: 1 item
box 43, item MS-F11-V23
Tambyln and Minette Lehmann at University of California, Berkeley
circa 1983-circa 1992
Physical Description: 1 hi-8 tape.
box 31, folder 17
Mapplethorpe, Robert
1990
box 31, folder 18
Weems, Carrie Mae
1991-1992
Conference, workshops, and lecture materials
box 31, folder 19
Australian 7th International Video Festival
1992
box 31, folder 20-21
Cinamatheque celebrates 25 years, San Francisco
1987
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 31, folder 22
College Art Association 78th annual conference, New York
1990
box 31, folder 23
I.S.E.A. 95, International symposium on electronic art, Montreal
1995
box 32, folder 1
The Politics of spectacle, University of California, Berkeley
1992
box 32, folder 1
San Francisco Art Institute lecture series
1992
box 32, folder 2
Solnit landscape lecture
circa 1975-circa 1995
box 32, folder 3
Video Festival of Navarre, Pamplona
1997
box 32, folder 4
Annual conference, Washington, D.C.
1979
box 32, folder 5
Beyond the boundaries conference, Seattle
1992
box 32, folder 7
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1993
box 32, folder 8
Capp St. Project, San Francisco
1985-1992
box 32, folder 9
Cinematheque, San Francisco
1991-1992
box 32, folder 10
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1991
box 32, folder 11
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
1991
box 32, folder 12
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1992
box 32, folder 13
The Lab, San Francisco
1991-1992
box 32, folder 15
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco
1991
box 43, item MS-F11-V13
Unidentified, Love postmodern style, video recorded material
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 vhs tape.
box 41, item MS-F11-V67
Sampler for School of Visual Arts, video recorded material
circa 1975-circa 1995
Physical Description: 1 u-matic tape.
Scope and Contents note
Includes works by Bob Snyder, Bob Roesler, John Manning, Janice Tanaka, Ric Horner, and Barbara Latham.
box 32, folder 17
Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles
1989
box 32, folder 18
New Langton Arts
1991-1992
box 32, folder 19
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
Bad girls exhibition catalog
1994
box 32, folder 21
Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco
1991-1992
box 32, folder 24
San Francisco Art Institute
1991-1992
box 32, folder 25
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1992
box 32, folder 26
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1992
box 32, folder 27
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
1992
box 32, folder 28
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1992
box 32, folder 29
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
1992
box 32, folder 30
University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
1991
box 32, folder 31
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
1992