John Sturgeon VIDEOGRAPHY - selected
Single Channel / Video Works
with which we sleep ©2015, HD, color, stereo, 19 mins.
touch & avoidance ©2013, HD, color, stereo, 10:25 mins.
Accents of Doubt ©2011 (redux: Arm’s Length), color, stereo, 8 mins.
ARCHIVIST, cleaving among the houses ©2010 HD 5.1 surround, 20 mins.
ARM’S LENGTH ©2000, color, stereo, 15 mins.
INSIDE OUT ©1990, color, stereo, 11 mins.
MELTING POT (Collaborative with Neil Rolnick) ©1987, color, stereo, 7 mins.
NOMADS (Collaborative A.Quinn) ©1986, Color, Stereo, 26 mins.
THE HOUSE OF INFLUENCE ©1985, color, stereo, 8 mins.
CANDLE-SAW ©1983, color, stereo, 2 mins.
SPINE/TIME ©1982, color, stereo, 20 mins.
UROBOROS ©1979, color, 10 mins. (Video & Video/Installation)
AS ABOVE, AS BELOW ©1978, color, 14 mins., (Video & Video Installation)
OF MATTER, OF MIND ©1978, b&w, 9 mins. 2 ASPECTS ©1976, b&w, 4 mins.
CONJUNCT-* (*Shown as a Trilogy) ©1976, b&w, 5 mins.
THE TWO OF TRIANGLES-* ©1975, b&w, 2:30 mins.
SHAPES FROM THE BONE CHANGE-* ©1975, b&w, 4:30 mins.
(WATERPIECE) ©1974, b&w, 7 mins.
NOR/MAL CON/VERSE ©1974, b&w, 4 mins., with Nina Sobel SHIRT ©1974, b&w, 6 mins.
HANDS UP ©1974, b&w, 9:30 mins.
Porky ©1974, b&w, 1:30 mins. (camera & edit Nina Sobel)
X ©1973, b&w, 11 mins. - (master can’t be duplicated) TRANSLATE ©1973, b&w, 22 mins.
DWELLING/OAR ©1973, b&w, 28 mins. (master can’t be duplicated) VISITOR ©1971, b&w, 29 mins. (master can’t be duplicated)
VIDEO I ©1971, b&w, 30 mins. (master can’t be duplicated)
John Sturgeon- VIDEOGRAPHY- continued Video Performance Works
Brood-X, 2004 performance, collaborative video/sound, Bradley/Sturgeon, InterAzoni, Teatro ARKA, Assemini, Sardinia
Esperanto, 2004 collaborative video/sound performance, (Bradley/Payens/Sturgeon), InterAzoni, Teatro ARKA, Assemini, Sardinia
Cake & Eat It, Too, 2002 video projection and performance (TV simulcast), Kulturetage, Oldenburg, Germany
Saturn Return, 1998 video projection and performance, Castle of Imagination-6th international meeting of performance artists, Bytów, Poland-1998 & InterAzioni, Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia
Shared Fear-the dance denial, 1998 video projection and performance, World Image, Metzingen, Germany
Confessions of Addiction, Love & Surgical Musings, 1997 performance, with interactive CD-ROM and poetic text, ISEA97 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), School Art Institute of Chicago
Caldera, 1997 (sound & video/performance collaboration w/ Michael Pestel), Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
Symposium Moor 1992, (Performances, Site Specific Works and Collaborations on the moors in northern Germany), 1992, Oldenburg, Germany
Narkose, (solo) solo video & performance, Wittemoor, Germany Moor Battery, (collaboration with Jörg Haberland), video &
performance, Wittemoor, Germany
Fishing Moor, (collaboration with Insa Winkler), video & performance, Wittemoor, Germany
More Moor, 1993 (collaborative video, laser & performance event in conjunction with Symposium Moor 1992), Haaren River site, Oldenburg, Germany
Ghost Story from the 1960's (moon walk), 1992, Live & Pre-Recorded Video, Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA
Fragments (Collaborative with A.Quinn), 1984-87, Video-Live & Pre- Recorded with Interactive Computer Graphics: Minneapolis, Madison, Wisc. & Chicago
No Earth/No Earth Station (Collaborative with A.Quinn), 1982-83, Color Video Live & Pre-Record, with Live Chroma Key Environment, (1983 commission, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
John Sturgeon- V I D E O G R A P H Y - performances continued
Atari is the New Parent, 1982 (collaborative, linked Satellite Video Performance, Sturgeon/Quinn/Lloyd), Iowa City-Los Angeles Link Up), Artists in Television Conference, National Cablecast- Learning Channel, University of Iowa
Uroboros, 1979, live perf. & pre-recorded color video, Krannert Art Museum, with PBS Television Simulcast, WILL Champaign, Illinois
Conjunction/Opposition II, 1977, B&W Live Cameras and Pre-Record, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, 1977
Spinning Dream, 1977, B&W Live Cameras and Pre-Record, AND/OR Gallery, Seattle, WA
Conjunction/Opposition, 1976, B&W, Live Cameras and Pre-Record, SITE Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1976
Interactive Works
at low tide, 2009, web & blog, collaborative with Christina N. Hung, (associated with the environmental work “at low tide” das Wattenmeer, Artotek, Oldenburg, Germany, in conjunction with: the German National City of Science, Social Land Art Project and Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Ocean, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Wattenmeer-North Sea)
Accents of Doubt, 2007 (DVD interactive poetic text & video) Raven-Winged Hours, 2005 (interactive web-mystery: project director,
collaborative,) Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Dissolving, 2000, (interactive CD-ROM with video, poetic text and photography) and interactive installation, Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
TRAP/bat, 1993, The Museum of Modern Art (Commission: multi- channel video & interactive sculptural installation), New York, NY
Streaming Audio Performances
Crawl/Knot 2004 (collaborative with Timothy Nohe), 1 hr. streaming text and sound work - live mix/performance, ARS Electronica, via art@radio, Linz, Austria, in conjunction with Long Night of Radio and broadcast on RadioFRO/Kunstradio, Wien, Austria
From the Attic & From the Basement, 2002 (collaborative with Steve Bradley), 4 hrs. streaming poetic and sound work over two days - live mix/performance, Linz, Austria, ARS Electronica, “art@radio”, with Radiotopia, broadcast RadioFRO/Kunstradio, Wien, Austria
Dots Between Spaces, 2002, 1 hr. streaming poetic and sound work - live mix/performance, (collaboration with Steve Bradley), for ROOT-X Festival, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, England
John Sturgeon VIDEOGRAPHY - selected - continued
DVDs, CDs & Streaming Publications Collaborative CDs: John Sturgeon & Steve Bradley
The Wrap ©2019 Bradley/Sturgeon, sound art collaboration 2002- 2003, 4 poetic & sound works, produced and published by Steve Bradley & John Sturgeon – streaming collection on Bandcamp app & via Urbantells:https://urbantells.bandcamp.com/album/the- wrap, release date 12.29.19.
Turn Again in the Wrap, 3:00 minutes, ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2003 Dotted Lines, 22:07 minutes, ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2003
Best of Times, 18:39 minutes, ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2003
the Gnaw, 4:57 minutes, ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2002
roamin, © 2017 Bradley/Sturgeon audio CD, with booklet, photographs and 3 sound art works; Produced and published by Steve Bradley, Baltimore, MD & John Sturgeon, Las Vegas, NV 2018
In the Neighborhood, 3:47 mins., ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2017 Ghost, 4:25 mins., ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2017
Tucumcari, 2:53., ©Bradley/Sturgeon 2017
Solo DVDs
John Sturgeon, Black & White Tapes (1974-1978), ©2008
John Sturgeon, Color Selected Videos (1982-1990), ©2008 j.sturgeon, booklets – photos and text: for California VIDEO, J. Paul Getty Museum & The Getty Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Video Installation Pieces Dissolving, 2000, (interactive CD-ROM video installation for data projection),
Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
...of the father, 2000, (2-channel sculptural video installation), Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Blooming, while we are sinking, 1996, (collaborative video installation, with Edda Akkermann), Gallery Gruppé Grün, Bremen, Germany
Narkose, 1993-94, (2-channel: projector & monitor, sculptural video-installation, German & English text), The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
John Sturgeon- V I D E O G R A P H Y - installations continued TRAP/bat, 1993 commission (multi-channel interactive video installation): The
Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY
Chariot Chamber, Too, 1989 (Collaborative Video Installation with A.Quinn), Proctors Too, Schenectady, NY
Chariot Chamber, 1985-87 (Collaborative with A.Quinn), 1985, 3 Channel, 7 monitor, color Video Installation & Computer Graphic Animation, with Sculptural Environment, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Spine/Time, 1982, color Video, with Photographic Installation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Uroboros, 1979, color Video, with Sculptural Environment, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I Will Take You, 1978 (& 1984 retrospective), b&w Video Projection, with Sculptural Environment, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
As Above, As Below, 1978, 2 Ch. color Video Installation, w/ Performed Environment, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Spin 411, 1974, (Collaboration w/ Nina Sobel), b&w, Video & Interactive Environment, commission: Mark Taper Forum, Experimental Lab Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Installation Documents
Blooming, while we are sinking, 1996, (collaborative video installation, with
Edda Akkermann), © 1997, color, stereo, 6 mins.
Narkose (1993-94, 2-channel, sculptural video installation), ©1994, color, stereo, 7 mins.
TRAP/bat (1993, 6 ch. video installation, M.O.M.A., interactive), ©1994, color, stereo, 7 mins.
DISTRIBUTION
MonteVideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA (1975-1983) – archive & referrals Raindance Foundation, NYC & Berlin
Listings: THE DATA BANK, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(1978-1988) & – the Artist