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J o h n  S t u r g e o n

V I D E O G R A P H Y  -  s e l e c t e d

S i n g l e   C h a n n e l  /  V i d e o  W o r k s

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)

V i d e o  P e r f o r m a n c e  W o r k s

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)

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

I n t e r a c t i v e  W o r k s

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

S t r e a m i n g  A u d i o  P e r f o r m a n c e s

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

D V D s ,  C D s  &  S t r e a m i n g  P u b l i c a t i o n s

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., ©Brad
ley/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

V i d e o  I n s t a l l a t i o n  P i e c e s

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

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

I n s t a l l a t i o n  D o c u m e n t s

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.

D I S T R I B U T I O N

       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

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