Frank Gillette

For the Oklahoma Territory judge, see Frank E. Gillette.
Frank Gillette
Born (1941-07-26) July 26, 1941 (age 83)
Jersey City, NJ.
NationalityAmerican
Known forVideo art, Video installation art, Contemporary art, Raindance Corporation
Notable workWipe Cycle
MovementVideo art
AwardsRockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy in Rome.
Websitehttp://www.frankgillette.com

Frank Gillette (born in 1941) is an American video and installation artist. Interested in the empirical observation of natural phenomena, his early work integrated the viewer's image with prerecorded information. He has been described as a "pioneer in video research [...] with an almost scientific attention for taxonomies and descriptions of ecological systems and environments".[1] His seminal work Wipe Cycle –co-produced with Ira Schneider in 1968– is considered one of the first video installations in art history.[2] Gillette and Schneider exhibited this early "sculptural video installation"[3] in TV as a Creative Medium,[4] the first show in the United States devoted to Video Art.[5] In October 1969, Frank Gillette and Michael Shamberg founded the Raindance Corporation, a "media think-tank [...] that embraced video as an alternative form of cultural communication.[6]

  1. ^ Gianelli, Ida; Beccaria, Marcella (2005). Video Art: The Castello di Rivoli Collection. Milan: Skira Editore. pp. 86. ISBN 978-8876245343.
  2. ^ Mondloch, Kate (2011). "The Matter of Illusionism: Michael Snow's screen/space". Screen/Space: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0719084638.
  3. ^ Ross, David A. (2010). 100 Video Artists. Madrid: Exit. p. 14. ISBN 978-8493734701.
  4. ^ "Electronic Arts Intermix - TV as a Creative Medium". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
  5. ^ Rush, Michael (2007). Video Art. New York: Thames & Hudson. pp. 19. ISBN 978-0-500-28487-2.
  6. ^ Meigh-Andrews, Chris (2006). "The Origins of Video Art". A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function. Oxford: Berg. pp. 61–3. ISBN 978-1845202194.