Artists Space

Extended Definitions:
Video Experiments in Perception

September 28 – November 5, 1989

Organized by Cara Mertes

A black and white close-up photograph of an eye. Text at the top reads, "Extended Definitions: Video Experiments in Perception." Text at the bottom reads, "September 28-November 4, Artists Space."
Leaflet cover for Extended Definitions, Artists Space, 1989. [A black and white close-up photograph of an eye. Text at the top reads, "Extended Definitions: Video Experiments in Perception." Text at the bottom reads, "September 28-November 4, Artists Space."]

Extended Definitions includes nine tapes by video artists whose work employs diverse narrative strategies and video technologies to question notions of perception and communication; they examine the structures of video representations by interrogating the practices that produce them. By foregrounding the constructed character of the televisual image and the multiplicity of its meanings, we become aware of the contradiction between video's potential plurality and television's historical homogeneity. Turning the tools of video on the form itself with the intent to undermine its assumptions paves the way for a possible restructuring of the language of video.

Resevoir, 1988
Norie Sato
8 minutes

Sightlines, 1988
Nancy Buchanan
15 minutes

Viewers of Optics, 1987
Alexander Hahn
11 minutes

This and That, 1988
Scott Rankin
7 minutes

Sentence Completion, 1988
Jonathan Giles
14 minutes

Incidence of a Catastrophe, 1988
Gary Hill
44 minutes

Confessions of a Chameleon, 1985
Lynn Hershman
15 minutes

Phenomenology (parts a, b, and c), 1988
Andrew Neumann
17 minutes

Animal (Loco)Motion and (Dis)Placements, 1988
Irit Batsry
27 minutes

Extended Definitions Postcard

Extended Definitions Video Program Cover

Extended Definitions Press Release

Artists Space programs are made possible by: the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; AT&T Foundation, Inc., The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion, The Bohen Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Horace w. Goldsmith Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation, Inc., The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, The Menemsha Fund, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Betty Parsons Foundation, The Reed Foundation, Inc., The Rockefeller Foundation, The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; American Express Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Equitable Real Estate Group, Inc., General Atlantic Corporation, R.H. Macy and Company, Inc., Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and U.S. Trust Company of New York; as well as Artwatch, Galleries in Support of Artists Space, Members and numerous Friends.