BAVC has been preserving parts of The Kitchen’s media archives, including both video and audio, for
several years. BAVC Preservation Technicians often express a fondness for The Kitchen's archive and count among their favorite "jobs" works by Laurie Anderson, The Talking Heads, Fab Five Freddy and the Rock Steady Crew, and many others.
Brent Phillips is a Media Specialist and Processing Archivist at Fales Library and Special Collections at the Elmer Bobst Library at New York University.He is one of a very few media specialists working with a special collection that is not just devoted to media. Brent contracted with BAVC to help preserve video performances by artists such as Stuart Sherman and Jaime Davidovich.
BAVC was hired by The Exploratorium here in San Francisco to clean and digitize their video collection. Frank Friedman Oppenheimer was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of McCarthyism, and was, later, the founder of The Exploratorium. For BAVC promotional use only. (click above to watch the video)
The Exploratorium, SF
David Byrne
BAVC was hired by The Exploratorium here in San Francisco to clean and digitize their video collection. David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician and artist. He is perhaps
best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new
wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991. Since
then, Byrne has released his own solo projects on record, and worked in
a variety of media, including film, photography, opera, and
Internet-based projects. This is for BAVC promotional use only.
The Kitchen, NYC THE BEASTIE BOYS
The Kitchen is a non-profit art space in New York City originally founded in 1971 in Greenwich Village. It takes its name from its original location in the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center. Notable Kitchen alumni include Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Rocco Di Pietro, Peter Greenaway, Ridge Theater, Leisure Class, Brian Eno, and Cindy Sherman and many more. In this clip from a performance at The Kitchen, we get a look at The Beastie Boys shortly after they went through puberty and well before they had any discernible talent.
PAUL MCCARTHY
BAVC digitized 1/2″ open reel tapes for artist Paul McCarthy. McCarthy, who studied painting at the SF Art Institute in the 60’s, is probably best known for his transgressive performance art (including performances in the 90’s when he turned into Santa Claus into a dirty old man - literally - nose running and face bloodied, as he smeared himself with food and various fluids. (click above to watch the video)
WILLIAM EGGLESTON TRUST
Often called the “father of color photography” and widely regarded as the leading and most influential color photographer of the 20th century, William Eggleston started creating striking portraits of his native South in the late 1960s.
Restoring The Eternal Frame by T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm
[Reprinted from a DV.com Feature Story]. On November 22, 1963, millions of people watched footage
of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination on television. The 8 mm film
captured by Abraham Zapruder was endlessly examined for clues, evidence,
and explanation by authorities and the media.
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