Gretchen Bender

Gretchen Bender Trailers

How to Fly Trailer

Gretchen Bender was a pioneering artist who worked across video, sculpture, computer graphics, photography, print and installation to interrogate the accelerated age of mass media.

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How to Fly Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc.

Total Recall Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

"Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall (1987) is the artist’s largest realized work of electronic theater, an eleven-channel performance choreographed across 24 television monitors and three projection screens .

Wild Dead I, II, III Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

Two-channel video on four CRT monitors with soundtracks by Stuart Argabright and Michael Diekmann.

Reality Fever Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

An early, single-channel version of Bender's video collages, one with found, created, and manipulated imagery, including a Folgers coffee commercial, a children's superhero cartoon, and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey.

Dumping Core Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

In Dumping Core, a frenzy of images appears across thirteen video monitors, creating an information overload set to a proto-techno soundtrack.

Bizarre Love Triangle Trailer (1986)

03 November 1986

Stock and live footage edited with music to showcase societal culture. While also directly referencing Robert Longo’s "Men in the Cities" series of photographs.