Video Recordings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Howard Wise Gallery
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content: Howard Wise Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 9-12)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973 - circa 1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.howawisg, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Video recordings are arranged alphabetically by name for videos whose dominant subject is an individual, followed by videos documenting events in chronological order. Moving image material created by others is arranged at the end of the series.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Many of the video recordings in this series have been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series contains video footage shot by Howard Wise, mainly of interviews with artists in Wellfleet, Mass. and other Cape Cod locations. Most of the video recordings by Wise contain raw, unedited footage, and individual tapes may contain more than one subject. A video log book containing notes on many of the videos lists additional subjects for each tape, with page numbers corresponding to numbers on tapes. Many tapes also have detailed labels. A few of the interviews seem to have been edited later into a series Wise called "Video Portraits," including intervies with Serge Chermeyeff, Edwin Dickinson, and Jack Tworkov. A printed program for a public screening of these works, called "Video Capers" is found at the beginning of the series. Note that not all of the subjects listed in the program are represented in the extant footage. An interview with Howard Wise is also found. Interviews are on 21 videoreels (1/2") and 4 videocassettes (U-matic)

In addition to interviews, events such as art openings, benefits, gallery tours, local camp activities are documented in the recordings. A dinner party with Jean Dubuffet and Thomas Messer, as well as footage of the premiere performance of Dubuffet's Coucou Bazaar at the Guggenheim Museum, are also found. Recordings of  panel discussions held on board an ocean liner, mostly on science subjects, are also found. Events are on 12 videoreels (1/2").

Footage of kinetic, media, and performance artworks includes multiple works from the 1967 Lights in Orbit exhibition and Nam June Paik at Bonino Gallery on 1 videocassette (VHS), multiple Howard Wise Gallery exhibitions from 1964-1965 on two videocassettes (U-matic), including On the Move (1964), Group Zero (1964), Gerald Oster, and Len Lye's Bounding Steel Sculptures (1965). Also found is a video performance by Hannah Wilke labeled "Noh Film" on 1 video reel.