The New Television
Video After Television

Book Launch and conversation between
Ed Halter, Joshua Gen Solondz,
Jacolby Satterwhite, and Rebecca Cleman

Followed by Q&A

Sat  |  Feb 22  |  5:30 PM EST

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The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims.

This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches, and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives.

The New Television: Video After Television is made possible through the generous support of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.

The New Television: Video After Televisionby Rachel Churner (Editor), Rebecca Cleman (Editor), Tyler Maxin (Editor)
no place press, 2024
Hardcover | 464 pages | 7.13 x 1.41 x 9.88 inches

Ed Halter is a writer and curator living in New York City, and a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for cinema in all its forms. His publications include From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games (2006), Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (2015, with Lauren Cornell), From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader (2018, with Barney Rosset) and over two decades of writing for 4Columns, Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, The Criterion Collection, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, The New Yorker, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, the Village Voice, and elsewhere.

Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in moving image, sound, and performance. He’s screened in a variety of festivals including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Onion City, Black Maria, Portland International, Milwaukee Underground, CAAMFest, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Chicago Underground, Locarno, Mar del Plata, FIC Valdivia, Viennale, and New York Film Festival. They’ve also shown at venues such as REDCAT, Light Industry, UnionDocs, Harvard Film Archive, MoMA, DINCA, NYU, Red Room, ATA, AGX, and Black Hole Cinematheque. In 2024, Solondz received a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts and will be a 2025 MacDowell Fellow.

Jacolby Satterwhite is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of ritual, fantasy, freedom and world-building through immersive installation, virtual reality and digital media. Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally, including most recently at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2023); FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2022); Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, PA (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2021); Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia (2019); Pioneer Works, New York (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); and Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019). Satterwhite’s immersive 6-channel video commission, A Metta Prayer was recently on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall from October 2023 to January 2024.

Rebecca Cleman, executive director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), has programmed and curated numerous exhibitions and screenings exploring video art history, including VHS The Exhibition at Franklin Street Works (2012), Attack of the Packs! Ghostbusters and Early Video Collectives for Metrograph Cinema (2017), and Broadcasting: EAI at ICA with Alex Klein at the ICA Philadelphia (2018). She has published writing on video art and cinema for BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Screen Slate, the Moving Image Source,  and The Film Comment Letter among many other platforms, and with Rachel Churner and Tyler Maxin, is the co-editor of The New Television: Video After Television.