Peter Campus

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Peter Campus, 1937, is one of the most important video artists of the 1970s. His early experimentation with studio shooting and high technology (of the time) video equipment opened up a vast new set tools for artmaking, as well as pushed the conceptual envelope of video art and its potential.

One of his most important works is a video titled "Three Transitions" in which he uses chromakey processors and video mixers to create videos in the studio. Part of the great potential in video art is that the artist receives instant feedback while shooting, being able to watch oneself in the monitor while recording is a major perceptual shift from from long delay in viewing film. "Three Transitions" engages this new method of perceiving oneself, Campus is watching himself live as he goes through the motions for the camera.

Campus abandoned video art for twenty years, making only photographs until returning to video work in the 1990s. Currently Campus is represented by "Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects" in New York City. Peter Campus works have been featured in the Whitney Biennial in 1973, 1993, and 2002. His works are held in collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

[edit] Selected filmography

• edge of the ocean, 2003
• el viejo, 2004
• time's friction, 2004
• kathleen in grey, 2004
• baruch the blessed, 2004
• Video Ergo Sum: divide, 1999
• Video Ergo Sum: dream, 1999
• R-G-B, 1974
• Three Transitions, 1973
• Interface, 1972
• Double Vision, 1971

[edit] External links

• "Whitney Biennial Program 2002", From the Whitney Museum website
• "Work samples, official bio" courtesy of Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
• Cook, Scott (1978) "Peter Campus at the Whitney," Millennium Film Journal. (Spring/Summer). p. 119-22.