Aldo Tambellini Trailers
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Aldo Tambellini is an Italian American artist. He was the first to pioneer electronic intermedia, is a painter, a sculptor and a poet. Tambellini has over 1400 pieces of artwork and 1000 poems. He has worked in bronze. He works with coal, acrylic and oil paints for his paintings. His earliest intermedia works involved the painting of cellulose slides and the use of projectors and televisions. His electromedia performances were collaborative efforts, utilizing jazz, poetry and dance along with painted slides. Tambellini is also a film editor and creates visual poems.
Most Popular Aldo Tambellini Trailers
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01 January 1968
Black TV is the title of Tambellini’s best-known videographic film, which is part of a large intermedia project about American television.
28 March 2024
This work was recently discovered and will have its world premiere at AAFF. A free-wheeling, long-form trance as Tambellini distorts the imagery from a cathode ray television, recording the results.
19 August 2005
Winner of the New England Film Festival, Best Experimental Film 2005; Winner of the Syracuse International Film Festival, Best Experimental 2006.
28 March 2024
M. Woods, a mentee of Aldo Tambellini, conducted the only interview with him in virtual reality. This interview has been expanded to include an immersive view of some of Tambellini’s work as well as a VR experience influenced by Tambellini.
25 May 2012
"Presenting, for the first time, a selection of the cathodic experimental works from the seminal Italo-American artist Aldo Tambellini; A selection of classic documents of one of the first pioneers of video art and audiovisual experimentation from New York east side scene of the '60s and '70s.
20 July 1969
The Day Before the Moon Landing (1969) is the first in a series of videos Tambellini made to capture broadcast television as it was experienced live.
01 January 1966
The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total abstraction to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and black teenagers in Coney Island.
11 November 1965
To the sound of a heartbeat and made entirely without the use of a camera, this film projects abstract forms and illuminations on a night-black background and suggests as Tambellini says, “seed black, seed black, sperm black, sperm black.
01 January 1969
This videotape was originally made in the television studio in Rochester, NY on a 2-inch Quad broadcast tape in 1969 with a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts as part of a program series which was produced and aired by New York State Educational Television.
01 January 1966
A study of light and real-time transmission.
01 January 1967
Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of black as a dominant color and idea.
01 January 1966
Tambellini here focuses on contemporary life in a black community. The extra, the “X” of Black Plus X, is a filmic device by which a black person is instantaneously turned white by the mere projection of the negative image.
01 January 1966
Video by Aldo Tambellini.
02 March 1963
Video documentation of Tambellini’s 1963 performance art piece, The Screw, a biting satire aimed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum who agreed to accept a new sculpture created by Tambellini in 1963.
11 November 1967
“An internal probing of the violence and mystery of the American psyche seen through the eye of a black man and the Russian revolution.
01 January 1973
It was difficult to find labs where I could make copies of my first tape; however, I found a place near LaGuardia Airport called Video Flight.
01 January 2007
After spending years working at MIT and having left the NYC art scene of the 1960s, Tambellini, like many artists, experienced a time of less prolific output.
01 January 1969
A high-contrast spiraling white light [which] shimmers, radiates, contracts, twists in orgasmic ecstasy, dwindles to nothing, and blazes forth again on the black video field.
01 January 1969
Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, THE MEDIUM IS THE MEDIUM is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.
11 November 1965
Through the uses of kinescope, video, multimedia, and direct painting on film, an impression is gained of the frantic action of protoplasm under a microscope where an imaginative viewer may see the genesis of it all.
01 January 1966
7-inch reel, 1/2-inch videotape.
01 January 1976
Clone creates a non-narrative sensory experience where TV images repeat, cloning themselves sometimes with mutations.
01 January 1968
This handmade ‘sensory experience’ by American film artist Tambellini is created without the use of a camera.
23 March 1969
Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.
01 January 1965
This film, like an action painting by Franz Kline, is a rising crescendo of abstract images. Rapid cuts of white forms on a black background supplemented by an equally abstract soundtrack give the impression of a bombardment in celestial space or on a battlefield where cannons fire on an unseen enemy in the night.
15 August 2017
Black Matters is the first full solo exhibition of American artist, Aldo Tambellini, who is one of the pioneers of intermedia art of the 1960s and 1970s.
28 February 2020
Documentation of Sonia Landy Sheridan and Aldo Tambellini in conversation with Bruce Posner.
30 August 1968
Often cited as the first television program made by artists, "Black Gate Cologne" is a live event involving films, light objects and the participation of the studio audience, comprised of footage from two consecutive 45-minute broadcasts with different audiences filmed at the WDR "Electronic Studio' in Cologne, Germany.
