David Blair : 1979- present
Video/computer movies
Numerous short videotapes from 1980-85.
1991 : WAX or the discovery of television among the bees[85:00, mono, color]
1993 : Waxweb, hypermedia version of Wax, first version on Internet
1994-present : The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES video/computer
completion in 2009
FUNDING/COMMISIONS
Production Grants :
New York State Council for the Arts, 1986
New York Foundation for the Arts, 1987
Jerome Foundation, 1987
National Endowment for the Arts, 1987
Checkerboard Foundation, 1988
New York State Council for the Arts, 1989
American Film Institute, 1989
New York State Council for the Arts, 1994 (Waxweb)
National Endowment for the Arts, 1995 (Lost Tribes)
New York State Council for the Arts, 1998 (Lost Tribes)
National Endowment for the Arts, 1999 (Lost Tribes)
Fellowships:
Japan/US Friendship Commission, 1995
Visiting Artist, Tokyo University Tokyo, 1996
Prizes:
Grand Prize, 6th International Video Festival, 1992, CICV, Montbeliard, France
Commissions:
Prototype, Lost Tribes: NTT Intercommunication Museum 1995. Exhibition, Tokyo
Section of Lost Tribes: Holland House for Culture Capital Europe 1996, Copenhagen
Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, NY (Wax...)
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Exhibition history for WAX or the discovery of television among the bees
Broadcast:
October, 1991 (ZDF, Germany. "WAX..." was created in co-production with ZDF, German Public Television, for "Das Kleine Fernsehspiel". )
September, 1994: ORF, Austria
December, 1994, Yomiuri TV, Osaka, Japan
Theatrical Exhibition ( * indicates engagement with more than 5 screenings)
Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Canada (1.92)
Metro Cinema, Edmonton, Canada (3.92)
Donnell Library Media Center, New York (4.92)
Regina Public Library, Canada (4.92)
Montreal Cinematheque, Canada (5.92)
*Public Theatre, NY (8.92) (24 shows)
* ICA, London (8.92) (8 shows)
Kunstmuseum, Bern (9.92)
*University Film Society, Minneapolis (10.92) (12 shows)
*Cleveland Cinematheque (11.92) (6 shows)
*Arizona Center for the Media Arts, Tucson, AZ (12.92) (6 shows)
Scala, London (12.92)
Rialto Cinema, Amsterdam (12.92)
*Roxie Cinema, San Francisco (1.93) (26 shows)
*UC Berkeley (1.93) (12 shows)
*Music Box, Chicago (2.93) (12 shows)
*The Movies, Portland, Maine (3.93) (6 shows)
*Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, Maine (3.93) (6 shows)
Webster University, St. Louis (3.93)
*Harvard Film Archives, Boston (4.93) (12 shows)
Sonoma State, Rohnert Park, CA (4.93)
*NuArt Cinema, LA (4.93) (6 shows)
Southwest Film Center, Albuquerque, NM (4.93)
theatres in Antwerp, Den Haag, Gent, and Amsterdam (4-6.93)
Cinestudio, Hartford, CN (5.93)
Reel Cinema, Cincinnati, Ohio (5.93)
*Capri, Anchorage, Alaska (6.93) (7 shows)
*Biograph, Washington DC (7.93) (10 shows)
Sputnik Theatre, Berlin (7.93)
*Parco 3, Shibuya, Tokyo (7-9.93) (60 shows)
*Dobie, Austin, TX (8.93) (7 shows)
SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC (7.93)
Coolidge Corner Cinema, Brookline, MA (8.93)
*Newburyport Cinema, Newburyport, MA (8.93) (7 shows)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (8.93)
*Towne Cinema, San Jose, CA (8.93) (6 shows)
Carolina Cinema, Chapel Hill, NC (8.93)
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY (9.93)
Pittsburg Filmmakers (New Visions), Pittsburg, PA (9.93)
* unknown theatres in Kyoto, Osaka, Okinawa (10.93) (6-15 shows each)
*Valhalla Theatre, Sydney, Australia (9-10.93) (at least 15 shows)
University Film Society, UC Boulder, CO. (10.93)
*Ken, San Diego, CA (10.93) (6 shows)
*Ryder Film Series, Bloomington, IN (10.93) (7 shows)
*Stage One Cinema, Charleston, SC (10.93) (7 shows)
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO. (1.94)
(-many- others since early 1994)
VIDEO [partial list]:
Facets Video Theatre, Chicago (1.17-19, six screenings)
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley (2.20)
LACE, Los Angeles (7.92)
Stanford Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Cyberfest at New Langton Arts, San Francisco (11.92)
FNAC, Caen, France (12.92)
X-Works, Paris, France (12.92)
Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio (1.93)
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (2.93)
Knitting Factory, NY (1.93)
Unspeakable Practices, Brown University (2.92)
UnitN, Vienna, Austria (3.93)
V2, Netherlands (3.93)
(many others on request)
Video Les Beaux Jours, Strausbourg (7.00)
Museum of Modern Art, New York (12.00)
Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco (1.01)
(-many- others since early 1994)
FESTIVAL:
"WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" has screened
at the following festivals:
FILM:
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
Victoria International Film Festival, Canada
Santa Fe Film Expo, New Mexico
Figueroa da Foz, Portugal
Hawaii Int'l Film Festival, Hawaii
Yamagata Documentary Film Festival
VIDEO:
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Montreal Intl. Festival of New Cinema and Video
The Geneva International Video Festival
American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles
Berlin International Video Festival
New Visions, Glasgow
World Wide Video Festival, The Hague
FIFOM Computer Film Festival, Montreal
MuuMedia Video Festival, Helsinki
Atlanta Film and Video Festival
Mediawave '92, Hungary
Montbeliard Video Festival, France (Grand Prize)
TISEA (Third International Seminar on Electronic Arts), Sydney
Experimenta, Melbourne, Australia
Dallas Video Festival
Internacional Video Festival Cidade de Vigo
Prix Futura, Berlin
International Video Festival Cadiz
(many others since 1993)
The world premiere of "WAX..." took place at a private screening
in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on September 19th, 1991.
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WAXWEB (Internet/CDROM work):
online since December 1993
final version released June 1999.
Installations:
SIGGRAPH 1994 (The Edge), Orlando, Florida
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 1994
SIGGRAPH 1995 (Interactive Communities), Los Angeles, CA
Interactive Media Festival, 1995 (Los Angeles ), in competition
World Wide Video Festival, Staedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1998
Fukui Biennale, Fukui, Japan, November, 1999
exhibiton:
Burning the Interface (10 city museum tour in Australia, 1995-7)
National Film Theatre, London (live presentation), 1995
Imagina 1995, Monte Carlo
V2, Rotterdam, 1995
VIPER Festival, Switzerland, 1997 and 1998
Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael, California, 1998
Mill Valley Film Festival, California, 1998
Montreal New Festival of New Cinema/New Media, October 1998
Kino-Eye, Antwerp, November 1998
Videoformes, France, April 1999
2nd Mostra d'Art CD; MECAD, Barcelona, Spain, 1999
Festival de Creacion, Pamplona (1999)
Bug, Melbourne Film Festival, July, 1999
net_Condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, September, 1999
Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria, September, 1999
Etats Generaux de l'Ecriture Interactive, Paris, November 1999
Fukui Bienalle, Fukui, Japan (installation) (1999)
EACC, Castellon, Spain, October, 2000
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Lost Tribes (installations)
ICC on the Web (November 1994) Tokyo
MetaTokyo web-based exhibition, commissioned by P3, Tokyo
Electra (March 1995) Oslo, Norway
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 1998
World Wide Video Festival, installation at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1998
Kino-Eye, Antwerp Film Museum, November 1998
Fukui Biennale, Fukui, Japan, November, 1999
Galerie Zoo, Strausbourg, July, 2000
"Apparent Motion", EACC, Castellon, Spain, October, 2000
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Lost Tribes (video)
Theatrical Premiere of commissioned section of “Danish Girls Show Everything†(compilation feature film) at Culture Capital Europe, Copenhagen, 1996
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 1997
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, 1997
VIPER Festival, Switzerland, 1997
MuuMedia Festival, Finland, 1998
Art in General, New York, 1999
Peripheral Visions, dLux Media, Sydney, 1999
Videoformes, Clermont Ferrand, 1999
Traces de Vies, Clermont Ferrand, 2000
Maniacs of Disapearance program: distributed to more than 40 sites worldwide through Japan Society
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Lecture/presentations (selected)
USIA Centers: Hokkaido, Tokyo, Kyoto (1995/6)
ISEA (Chicago, 1994; Finland, 1995)
Nagoya City Art Museum (1995)
Box Higashi Nakano, Tokyo (1995)
International House Japan (1995)
National Film Theatre, London (1995)
Berlin Video Festival , Germany (1997)
ICC, Tokyo (1997)
AFI, Los Angeles (1997)
EMAF, Osnabruck (1998)
Mediatheque, Herouville, France (1999)
Melbourne Film Festival (1999)
Artspace, Sydney (1999)
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (1999)
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia (1999)
Recontres Art Electronique, Rennes, France (1999)
Digital Directions Speaker Series, University of Virginia (1999)
Sala HAL, Universitat Pempeu Fabra, Barcelona (2000)
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Publications:
Inclusion in book-length anthologies:
Electronic Culture, Aperture Press, ed. Druckrey, 1996
After Yesterday’s Crash, Penguin, ed. McCaffery, 1996
2oth Century Media, Just Systems, ed. Kubota, 1996
In Memorium to Post-Modernism, SDSC Press, ed. Amerika, 1995
Parallel Universe, Tokyo University Press, ed. Sato, 1997
Creating Personalities, Springer, ed. Various, 1995
Magazine publication (selected)
Millemium Film Journal, 1995 [cover]
Turbulences [France] (focus of special artist issue) 1999 [cover]
Journal of Japan Society for Simulation, 1997 [cover]
ASCII, 1995-7
Andere Sinema, 1996
Eureka, 1997
many others
