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Bill Brand
108 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 966-6253

bbrand@pipeline.com

RESUME

Born: Rochester, New York, 1949

Education: Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, B.A., 1972 (Art)
                  
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A., 1974 (Film)

Teaching Experience:

1991-present Hampshire College, Professor of Film and Photography
2005-present New York University, graduate Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, Adjunct
1987 School of Visual Arts, New York City, Summer Session
1986 San Francisco Art Institute, Summer Session
1985-87 Hunter College, CUNY, New York City, Adjunct Assistant Professor
1980-90 Collective for Living Cinema, Optical Printing Workshops
1975-85 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Faculty in Filmmaking
1976 S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Summer Session, Center for Media Study
1974 S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, Instructor, Advanced Filmmaking Workshop
1973 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Instructor, Summer Session

Filmography:

2005 Swan's Island, color, sound, 16mm, 5 minutes, co- directed with Katy Martin
2003 Suite, color, sound DV video, 29 minutes includes:
              My Father’s Leg, 1996, color, silent, DV video, 3 minutes
              Interior Outpost, 2003, color, sound, DV video, 10 minutes
              Moxibution, 1999, color, sound, DV video, 8 1/2 minutes
              Double Nephrectomy, 1998, color, sound, DV video, 4 minutes
             
Gazelle, 1998, color, sound, DV video, 3 1/2 minutes
2002 Skinside Out, color, sound, 16mm, 10 minutes, co- directed with Katy Martin
2000 I’m a Pilot Like You, color, sound DV video, 40 minutes co- directed with Ruth Hardinger

        Dialysis, Living With Choices
, color, sound, DV video, 15 minutes, made with students at Hampshire College
1996 Housing Discrimination Project, color, sound, video, 8 minutes, made with students at Hampshire College
1995 Human Resources Unlimited, color, sound, video, 6 minutes, made with students at Hampshire College

1990 Home Less Home, color, sound, 75 minutes
1984 Coalfields, color, sound, 39 minutes
1983 Tracy's Family Folk Festival, color, sound, 10 minutes
1982 Chuck's Will's Widow, color, silent, 13 minutes
1979 Split Decision, color, sound, 15 minutes
1978 Works In The Field, color, silent, 40 minutes
1977 T.F.W. March For Human Rights, color, sound, 7 minutes
1976 The Trail To Koskimo, His First Hunt, color, sound, 35 minutes
1974-75 Cartoons, color and b/w, sound and silent, 40 minutes total. Includes:
              An Angry Dog, 1974, color, silent, 5 1/2 minutes
               It Dawn Down, 1974, color, silent, 5 1/2 minutes
              The Central Finger, 1974, color, silent, 5 1/2 minutes
              Before The Fact, 1974, color, sound, 6 minutes, made with Saul Levine and Students at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton
             
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin, 1975, color, silent, 4 minutes
              New York State Primaries, 1975, color, sound, 5 1/2 minutes
             
Still At Work, 1975, color, sound, 4 minutes
1973 Demolition Of A Wall, b/w, sound, 30 minutes
              Touch Tone Phone Film, b/w, sound, 8 minutes
1972-74 Acts Of Light, color, sound, 55 minutes total. Includes:
              Circles Of Confusion, 1974, color, sound, 15 minutes
              Angular Momentum, 1973, color, sound, 20 minutes
              Rate Of Change, 1972, color, sound, 18 minutes
1972 Moment, b/w, sound, 25 minutes
        Zip Tone Cat Tune, color, silent, 8 minutes
1971 Pong Ping Pong, film and sound environment, b/w, sound, 25 minutes
        Always Open/ Never Closed, color, silent, 13 minutes
1970 Tree, b/w, sound, 8 minutes
1969 Organic Afghan, color, sound, 4 minutes

Exhibitions:

2008 Rotterdam International Film Festival
2007  Pacific Film Archive, Avant-Garde Preservation Series, Berkeley, CA
           Cinema Project, Portland, OR
           Northwest Film Study Center, workshop on film and video preservation, Portland, OR
           NewYorkRioToyko e.V. and Ex’N’Pop, Berlin, Germany
           Essential Documentaries: Classic New Directors/ New Films, Lincoln Center, NY
           Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
           Espace Gantner, Belfort, France, “Paul Sharits, Figment”
2006 In Black and White and Living Color, Tribeca Film Festival, New York
         Art as a Form of Conversation, Dashanzi Arts Festival, 798 Galleries, Beijing, China
         Results You Can't Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, Anthology Film Archives, New York
        12+ Retrospective, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2005 Colour After Klein: Films , Barbican Art Gallery, London
2004 Shanghai Doulun Art Museum, China,  “12+” solo exhibition of films and videos sponsored by The Art World Magazine (Yishushijie)
        Princeton University, Gloria! The Legacy of Hollis Frampton conference, “The Algorithmic Aesthetic: Frampton as Digital Pioneer”

        Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference, Minneapolis,  exhibition and panelist for
                “Fixing the Moment: Preserving Expanded Cinema”.  Talk titled “Artist as Archivist: A Preservation Pickle
        Art in General, “Through our Eyes,” exhibition and panel discussion, organized by Jo Wood-Brown, NY
        Chicago Filmmakers 30th Anniversary Show, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago
        Chicago Filmmakers 30th Anniversary Show, Anthology Film Archive, NY
        “Save Our Films” benefit for Anthology Film Archive, live music by Animal Collective
        Ocularis at Golapagos Art and Performance Space, “Open Zone Friends & Co-Conspirators Program,” Brooklyn, NY
        Athens Film Festival, Athens, Ohio
2003 Tribeca Film Festival
        Chicago Filmmakers
        San Francisco Cinematheque
        California Institute of the Arts
        Ocularis at Golapagos Art and Performance Space, Open Zone Friends & Co-Conspirators Program, Brooklyn, NY
        Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, Boston
        “Selected Film and Video 1973-2003” Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2002 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, “Cine y casi cine,” Madrid, Spain
        Donnell Media Center, New York Public Libarary, "Meet the Maker" series
        Brooklyn Academy of Music, in "The Nearest Far Away Place" as part of the "Next Wave Festival"
2001 Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
        Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy
2000 Bennington College, VT, (reconstruction of 1971 film installation Pong Ping Pong plus other work)
        Cooper Union, NYC
        Dallas Video Festival, TX
1999 “American Century,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
        ”Fundació Antoni Tápeis, “Calculated Cinema, Barcelona, Spain
        Barbican Centre, Lux Cinema, Underground America, “Ways of Seeing”, London 1998]
        Marlboro College, VT
1998 Lux Cinema, London, “Underground America” curated by Mark Webber
1997 Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
1993 Pleasant Street Cinema - 1 week run, Northampton, MA
        Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1992 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holland
1991 Berlin Film Festival - Forum of New Films, Germany
        New Directors/New Films, Museum of Modern Art, NY
        New-York Historical Society, "Race and Class in N.Y.C.",NYC
        Munich Documentary Festival, Germany
        Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
        JFK Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
        AFI-LA Film Festival, LA
        American Film and Video Festival, Philadelphia, PA
        Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland
        Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
        Port Washington Library, NY
        Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY
        George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
        Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH
        Crandell Library, Glens Falls, NY
        PS122, New York, NY
        Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, Boston, MA
1990 Independent Feature Project Market, NY
        Rutgers University, Visiting Artist, NJ
1989 Collective for Living Cinema, NY
        Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
        Media Mix, Rutgers University, NJ
        Whitney Museum of American Art, "Image World", NYC
1988 American Museum of the Moving Image, "Independent America:New Film, 1978-1988", Astoria, NY
1987 Crandall Library, Glens Falls, NY
        Collective for Living Cinema, NYC
1986 Filmforum, Los Angeles
        Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, "Frames of Mind", Utica, NY
        Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
        Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
        Montclair State College, NJ
        Long Island University, NY
1985 Donnell Library, NYC
        Bromfield Gallery, Boston
        University of Kentucky, Lexington
        West Virginia Institute of Technology, Montgomery
        Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
        Kent State University, Filmworks, Kent, Ohio
        P.S.1, NYC
        Black Maria Film Festival, NJ
        Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
        Bromfield Gallery, "Independent Film Series", Boston, MA
1984 Collective for Living Cinema, NYC
        University of Hartford, CT
        Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
        Collective for Living Cinema, "Super-8 Films Against U.S.
        Intervention in Central America", NYC: Organizer.
1983 The Boston Film/Video Foundation, MA
        University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
        Berks Filmmakers', Reading, PA
        The Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
        Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
        Pasadena Filmforum, Pasadena, CA
        Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
        Collective for Living Cinema, "Art in Nicaragua", NYC
        The Kitchen, "Filmworks '83", NYC
        The Exploratorium, "Light Currents" by Eye Music, S.F., CA
        Bleeker Street Cinema, "Film Pulse", NYC
        The Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
        University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Collective for Living Cinema, Idiolects Benefit, NYC
1980 State University of New York at Plattsburgh, NY
        International Center of Photography, NYC
        Artists Space, NYC
        Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
1979 London Film-makers' Co-operative, London, England
        Colgate College, Hamilton, NY
        Media Study/ Buffalo, NY
        California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
        Oasis Films at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts, CA
        The Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
        Millennium Personal Cinema, NYC
        Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
        Hayward Gallery, "Film as Film, Formal Experiment in Film, 191O-
1975", London, England
        Third International Avant-garde Film Festival, "Film London", London, England
        The Kitchen, "Filmworks '79", NYC
        Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
        Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
1978 Museum of Modern Art, NYC
        Collective for Living Cinema, NYC
1977 Colgate College, Hamilton, NY
        Millennium Personal Cinema, NYC
        Berks Filmmakers', Reading, PA
        Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, CA
        Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
        Filmgroup at N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago,IL
        Anthology Film Archives, NYC
        Artists Space, NYC
        Municipal Building Arcade, "Arcade", outdoor sound and film show, curated by Charlie Ahearn, NYC
        Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
        Theater Vanguard, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
        Invitational: "MOVED", John Weber Gallery, NYC
1975 Wimbleton College of Art, Wimbleton, England
        Derby College of Art and Technology, Derby, England
        Reading University, Reading, England
        Maidstone College of Art, Maidstone, England
        London Film-makers' Co-operative, London, England
        Slade School of Art, London, England
        Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, France
        Arsonal Cinema, Berlin, Germany
        Kommunales Kino, Frankfurt, West Germany
        Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria
        Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
        Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
        Anthology Film Archives, NYC
        Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
        Festival International du Jeune Cinema, Toulon, France
1974 State University of New York at Buffalo, NY
        Millennium Personal Cinema, NYC
        State University of New York at Binghamton, NY
        Fifth International Experimental Film Competition at Knokke-Heist, Belgium
        American Film Festival, "Film as Art", NYC
1973 Millennium Personal Cinema, NYC
        Festival of Independent Avant-garde Film, London, England
        Filmgroup at N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago,IL
        Anthology Film Archives, NYC
        Filmmakers Cinematheque, organized by Jonas Mekas at the Elgin Theater, NYC
1972 Western College, Ohio
1971 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio

 
Television Showings of Home Less Home:

1991-95 WNET, New York, "Independent Focus"
        ZDF, Germany
         Denmarks Radio, Denmark
         RTE, Ireland
         SBS, Australia
         CDN, Canada
         NHK, Japan
         Super Channel, England

Films in the Collection of:

         Archives du Film Experimental D'Avignon, France
         Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsbrugh, PA
         Royal Film Archives of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
         New York Public Library, NYC
         Educatinal Film Library Association, NYC
         Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY
         The Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Toledo, Ohio
         West Virginia Library Commission, Charleston, WV
         University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR
         The School of the Art Instutute of Chicago Film Center, Chicago, IL
         Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
         Hampshire College/ Five-College Film Collection, , Amherst, MA

Bibliography:

Aidan Dunne, “A Visual Feast to Whet All Appetites”, Irish Times,  October, 31, 2006, Ireland
Andrew Lampert, Results You Can't Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2006
Courtney Woo, “Experimental Film Retrospective: Western filmmakers nudge Shanghai’s nascent experimental film scene to life.”
         City Weekend, Shanghai, China, January 19, 2006, p. E24.
Schnepp, Suzanne R., “On Time: Approaches to the Conservation of Film, Videoape, and Digital Media”,
         Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies Vol. 31, No. 2, 2005
Zhu Haijian, Interview with Bill Brand, Art World Magazine, December, 2004
Brian Frye, “The Accidental Preservationist: an Interview with Bill Brand”, Film History, Vol. 15- 2, 2003
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation, “Permanence Through Change: The Variable media Approach”, 2003
Robin Pogrebin, “TriBeCa Festival Celebrates Film And Resilience” New York Times, May 7, 2002
Jon Gartenberg, “The Fragile Emulsion”, The Moving Image, Fall 2002
Archive du Film Expèrimental D’Avignon, L’image en moubement, 25 ans d’activitè pour la défense du cinéma come art visuel, 2002
Fred Camper, "Senses Working Overtime, Remembering Stan Brakhage", Chicago Reader, April 18, 2003
David A. Cook, Lost Illusions, American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam 1970-1979, University of California Press, 2000Paula Rabinowitz, They Must Be Repreented, Univeristy of Illinois Press, 1996

Jessica Clarke, "Hampshire People", Union-News, July 26, 1993
Bruce Watson, Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 15, 1993
Erik Barnouw, Documentary, A History of the Non-Fiction Film, Oxford Univ. Press, 1992
Janet Maslin, "Problems of Homelessness: The Individual Stories", The New York Times, March 22, 1991
Steven Holden, The New York Times, March 15, 1991
Stev., Variety, April 1, 1991
Armond White, "Homelessness - A Movie Metaphor For Our Times",
The City Sun, May 1-7, 1991
Paul Arthur, Cineaste, Voll XIII, No 3, Fall, 1991
Diana Lobdell, "Bill Brand Interview", Experimental Film Coalition Journal, Summer, 1991
Jeff Clark, Library Journal, April 1, 1991
Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin, Feb. 2, 1991
Simone Mahrenholz, Der Tagesspigel/Feuilleton, Feb. 19, 1991
Hans Braunseis, Der Morgen, Feb. 22, 1991
Karen Margolis, "Out in the Cold", Journal, Feb. 16, 1991
Peter Korte, "Aus aller Welt", Frankfurter Rundschau, Feb. 20, 1991
J Hoberman, Premiere, March, 1991
Elizabeth Forbes, Times-Union, Rochester, NY, Oct. 19, 1989
J. Hoberman, Voice, June 19, 1984
J. Hoberman, Voice, April 3, 1983
Plattsburgh Press-Republican, Mar 10, 1980
Ian Christie, "Film Independents", Timeout, July 13-19, 1979, London
B. Ruby Rich, "What You See Is What You Get", Reader, March 16, 1979, Chicago
Jonathan Buchsbaum, "Composing for Film: The Work of Bill Brand", Millennium Film Journal, No. 3, Winter/ Spring, 1979
Noel Carroll, "Avant-garde Film and Film Theory",
Millennium Film Journal, No. 4/5, Fall/Summer, 1979
"A Room with a View, - N.Y., N.Y." The New York Times, Jan. 12, 1978
Noel Carroll, Soho Weekly News, Dec 14-20, 1978
Malcolm Legrice, Abstract Film and Beyond, M.I.T. Press, 1977
Darryl Chin, "Outdoor Parameters", Soho Weekly News, May 19-25, 1977
Linda Gross, L.A. Times, Apr 12, 1977
"Conversation with Gunver Nelson", Canyon Cinemanews, #76-4, 1976
The American Federation of Arts, New American Film-makers, 1976
Peter Wollen, "The Two Avant-gardes", Studio International,
Nov/Dec, 1976 (reprinted in Edinburgh '76 Magazine, Number 1, 1976)
Marjorie Keller, Women & Film, Vol. 2:7, 1975
Ian Christie, "Time and Motion Studies: Structural Cinema and the
Work of Bill Brand", Studio International, June, 1974
David James, Art & Cinema, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1973/74
Jonas Mekas, "Movie Journal", The Village Voice, Oct. 18. 1973
Jonas Mekas, "Movie Journal", The Village Voice, June 7, 1973
Jonas Mekas, "Movie Journal", The Village Voice, Jan. 4, 1973

Awards:

1994-97 Hampshire College, MacArthur Chair
1991 Blue Ribbon for Home Less Home, American Film and Video Festival
1985 Ann Arbor Film Festival
1983 Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1981 Certificate of Merit, The Municipal Art Society of New York for Masstransiscope Organizations: 1997 NEA/Open Society Artlink, Visual Arts Panalist

Grants:

2001-07 Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College
1999 Leo Modell Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College

1998 NEH Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College
1997 NEH Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College
1995 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Film Production
1993 Hewlett-Mellon Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College
1992 Hewlett-Mellon Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, film production
         New York Foundation for the Arts, fellowship in film
1989 New York State Council on the Arts, Production Assistance Grant
         New York Council for the Humanities
         Art Matters Inc.
         North Star Fund
1987 New York State Council on the Arts, Production Assistance Grant
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts, fellowship in film
1984 Jerome Foundation
1982 American Film Institute, Independent Filmmaker Program
1978-79 National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places/ Planning Grant for Artists
         New York State Council on the Arts, Production Assistance Grant
         Creative Artists Public Services (CAPS), film section

Other professional activities:

1976-present BB Optics, an optical printing and film preservation service specializing in archival materials and blow-ups from super-8 and 8mm. Recent projects include:

New York University/ Museum of Modern Art – Hapax Legomena by Hollis Frampton funded by the National Film Preservation Fund, Rain Dance by Helen Hill
Escape Multimedia Gantner, Belfort, France.  Restoration and presentation of “Sound Strip/ Film Strip” (1972), a  4-projector film installation by Paul Sharits for PAUL SHARITS: FIGMENT curated by Yann Beauvais
Anthology Film Archives – preservation of films by Paul Sharits, Wallace Berman, Saul Levine, Carolee Schneemann
Electronic Arts Intermix - – preservation of films by Carolee Schneemann
Fales Library at New York University - preservation of Super 8 films by David Wojnarowicz funded by a grant from New York State Council on the Arts, Super 8 films on Richard Foreman funded by National Endowment for the Arts and National Film Preservation Fund
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – preservation of footage of Frank Lloyd Wright and construction of the museum, funded by a grant from the National Film Preservation Fund
Jewish Museum – The Goldbergs
Robert Huot – Red Stockings, Blue Movie, Black and White Film, 3rd 1-Year Movie, Sound Movie, From Loops, Leader.
National Archives Nixon Library - preservation of super-8 films shot by President Nixon’s top aids in late 1960’s early 1970’s.
New York Public Library - preservation of avant-garde films of Holly Fisher, Marjorie Keller, Larry Gottheim, Storm DeHirsch, Ken Jacobs and Bill Brand
Museum of Modern Art – preservation of “Weegies New York” from a print in the Hampshire College/ Five College collection.
Estate Project for Artists with AIDS and the Fales Library at New York University - preservation of films by David Wojnarowicz, and Jack Waters, with Gartenberg Media Enterprises
The Art Institute of Chicago, preservation of “Art Make-up 1,2,3,4” by Bruce Nauman
Whitney Museum of American Art, preservation of “Shutter Interface” by Paul Sharits for “Into the Light” curated by Chrissie Isle
Chicago Filmmakers, “Grandfather Trilogy” by Allen Ross, supported by the National Film Preservation Fund.
Jewish Film Archive at Brandeis University, "Bernstein 1947 Exodus”, supported by the National Film Preservation Fund.
Southern Media Archive, University of Southern Mississippi, preservation of Raisin’ Cotton , an 8mm film shot around 1941 by Emma Knowlton Lytle on Perthshire, her family's plantation, supoorted by Women in Film Preservation Fund.
Berkeley Art Museum, films by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, preparation for “MindFrames. Media Study at Buffalo 1973-1990,” a Spring 2007 exhibition of the works of Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, and Woody and Steina Vasulka, James Blue and Peter Wiebel.


2008 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Board of Trustees, member
2001 Consultant/panelist at the Guggenheim Museum's conference, "Preserving the Immaterial"
        Panelist at the Association of Moving Image Archivists' annual conference, Portland, Oregon

1997 NEA/Open Society Artlink, Visual Arts Panalist
1996 Mass. College of Art, Peer Review Panel for Media and Performing Arts Dept.
1992 New England Film Festival, Jurist
1989-91 Jerome Foundation NYC Film/Video Panelist
1988,1989 National Endowment for the Arts/ Jerome Foundation Midwest Regional Film/Video Panelist
1987-90   Childrens' Film programmer at the Collective for Living Cinema

1985-91 Collective For Living Cinema, Board of Directors, Treasurer
1985-88 New York State Council on the Arts, Film Panelist
1983 Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, film and steering committees
         Ventana, Artists for Nicarguan Culture, founding member
1982-present Parabola Arts Foundation, Inc. founding member and artist director
1973 Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL, founder (Filmgroup at N.A.M.E. Gallery)

Public Art Work:

1980 Masstransiscope, a 300' long permanent installation in the New York City subway which looks like an animated movie when seen from passing trains. It consists of 228 hand-painted panels in an illuminated enclosure. Sponsored by Creative Time, Inc.,


Exhibitions about Masstransiscope:

1985 "Sites and Solutions", Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
1984 "Sites and Solutions", Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
1983 Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY
1982 PS1 (Institute for Art and Urban Resources), Long Island City, NY
1981 Media Study/ Buffalo, NY
1980 "Urban Encounter", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Television about Masstransiscope:

WNYC, "Brooklyn Magazine", NYC, April 9, 1982
Fuji Telecasting Co., "Science and Art", Itsuo Sakane, Tokyo, March 6, 1982
WPIX, "Action News", Frank Casey, NYC, Sept. 19 & 21, 1980
NBC, National Network News, "John Chancelor Show", Sept. 18, 1980
NBC, "Channel 4 News", NYC, Sept. 17, 1980

Bibliography for Masstransiscope:

Amy Zimmer. “Underground art in Brooklyn”, Metro NY, Weekend, March 9-13, 2007; pg. 3
Lyndsey Layton. “A Tunnel With a View -- and a Profit, Metro Looks at New Technology for Ads to Boost Revenue” Washington Post, Sunday, August 31, 2003; Page A1
Brett Martin, "Essential New York", Time Out New York, Nov. 6-13, 1997

F.Y.I. "Suspended Animation", The New York Times, Nov. 17, 1996
Debreh Gilbert, "Not Just Another Underground Film", The Independent, March 1991
"Station Animation", The New Yorker, July 24, 1989
"To Do", New York Woman ,Sept./Oct. 1986,
Yoriko Fujita Powell, "New York Hot Shot", Photo Japon, Sept. 1985
Harold Haydon, "Public Art Takes Novel Approach To Involvement", Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 17, 1985
Lillian Thomas, Reader, Chicago, IL, Jan. 25, 1985
Stacy Paleologos Harris,Insights/ On Sites Perspectives on Art in Public Places,
Partners for Livable Places, Washington,D.C., 1984
Nancy Rosen, "Public Art: City Amblings", Ten Years of Public Art,
1972-1982, Public Art Fund, Inc, NY 1982
Itsua Sakane, Asahi Shinbun, Tokyo, March 9, 1982
Georgette Gouveia, Review Press-Reporter,Bronxville, NY Dec. 31, 1981
George Howell, The Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY, Nov. 21, 1981
Richard Huntington, Buffalo Courier-Express, Buffalo, NY, Nov. 15, 1981
Deborah C. Phillips, "New Faces in Alternative Spaces", Artnews, Nov.1981
Kelley Seymore, Seawanhaka, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, May 22, 1981
Mix:32, Feb. 1981
John Russell, "Art People", The New York Times, Jan. 16, 1981
Urban Encounters, exhibiton catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1980
Artnews, "The Vasari Diary", Dec. 1980
The Lamp, Fall 1980
Amy Taubin, The Soho News, NYC, Nov. 19, 1980
Afterimage, Rochester, NY, Nov. 1980
Dale Robinson, Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, PA, Oct. 30, 1980
Kalman Gould, Washington Square News, NYC, Oct. 20, 1980
Ott Riedberg, SLC Tribune, Bronxville, NY, Sept. 29, 1980
Grace Glueck, "Art People", The New York Times, Sept. 26, 1980
Merle Ginsberg, "This Week", The Soho News, NYC, Sept. 17-23, 1980
Carrie Rickey, "Centerfold", The Village Voice, NYC, Sept. 17-23, 1980
"Art Breakers", The Soho News, NYC, Sept. 17-23, 1980
Glenn Fowler, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 1980
Bob Kappstatter, Daily News, Brooklyn Section, NYC, Sept. 16, 1980
North Brooklyn News, NYC, Sept. 11, 1980
Susan Paul, The Phoenix, Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 1, 1980
The Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn, NY, Aug. 6-19, 1980
Carrie Rickey, "Closely Watched Train Stations", Village Voice, NYC, July 30-Aug.5, 1980
Peter Lemos, Skylines, July, 1980

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