Selected Artwork and Articles by Robert Edgar

Date

Completed Works

Screenings/Performances

Published Articles

 

September 2005  

Live Performance,

Raga Mala, Kannadotsava

Hayward, California

Cuckoo Song

 
April 2005  

 

A Context for First-Generation PC Art, LEA,
November 2004 The Mister Edgars, Audio CD    
June 2004  

Live Webcast,

The Mister Edgars,,

Musical performance, Ex'pression Center, Emeryville, CA

 
June 2004  

DVD

1985 - 1995 Portfolio

Selections from:

Memory Theatre One

Living Cinema

SAND

$25.00 from rbedgar@gmail.com

 

 

January 2004

 

Panel Presentation

Interactive Computer Art

Pacific Art League Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

 

 

January 2004

 

Live Webcast, Raga Mala, Musical performance, Ex'pression Center, Emeryville, CA

 

 

December 2003

Thirteen Transitions Before Dusk, Audio CD

 

 

  Music CD, Songs and Computer Music

March 2003

 

Panel Presentation Memory Theatre One, Memory Theatre Two. Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany

 

  Presentation of Memory Theatre One and Two for Workshop on Memory Theaters

March 2003

 

Memory Theatre Workshop ISNM International School of New Media, Lubeck, Germany

 

  Workshop on Computer Memory Theaters

January 2003

Memory Theatre Two, Computer program

 

 

  Interactive CD Mac/Windows

December 2002

Raga Mala (Work in progress), Audio CD

 

 

  Ongoing project, Robert, Shuba Gunapu, Purna Prasad

December 2001

Robert Edgar Rocks and Folks, Audio CD

 

 

  Songs by Robert, guitar, vocal, electronics

December 1998

12.5 Minutes, Audio CD

 

 

  Soundtrack to an interactive CD Robert couldn't get funded.

February 1997

The Ages of Reasons, Audio CD (with Neal Margolis and Tom Goering)

 

 

  Robert's first digital recording with Neal Margolis and Tom Goering.

August 1995

 

PC is to Piaget as WWW Is to Vygotsky, Panel presentation, Siggraph

PC is to Piaget as WWW Is to Vygotsky, Precedings, Siggraph

 

April 1995

 

 

A Conversation with Robert Edgar, Arts Wire

 

August 1994

Sand, or How Computers Imagine Truth in Cinema , Interactive Computer-based performance system

Sand, or How Computers Imagine Truth in Cinema, Manhattan

Neighborhood Network,

New York, NY

 

 

December 1993

 

 

Generative Strategies, Art Com

 

March 1993

Portrait of the Artist on the Net

Portrait of the Artist on the Net,  Desktop Video, Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, San Francisco, CA

 

 

March 1993

 

 

HDID and Aesthetic Practice; Conference Proceedings from the Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

 

June 1992

 

 

Magritte Hated to Paint; CyberArts, published by Miller Freeman, edited by Linda Jacobson

 

March 1992

 

 

The Production Line; Amiga World

 

May 1991

 

Living Cinema Performance, Media Arts Center, Columbia, S.C.

 

 

November 1990

 

Living Cinema Performance, Tisch Interactive Gallery, New York, NY

 

  Still 2 of 4 from Living Cinema piece circa 1990

September 1990

 

Living Cinema Video, Cyberarts, Los Angeles

 

 

March 1990

 

 

The Aesthetics of Desktop Video; NCGA Conference Procedings

 

Jamuary 1990

 

 

The Teleology of Living Cinema; Independent Spirit

 

July 1989

 

Living Cinema Video, University Memorial Center Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

 

June 1989

 

Living Cinema Performance, NCGA Arts Conference/The Dimensions of Interactivity, CADRE Institute, San Jose, CA

 

 

May 1989

 

Living Cinema Video, Ars Electronica 89, Linz, Austria

 

 

May 1989

 

Living Cinema Video, A Space, Toronto, Canada

 

 

April 1989

 

Digital Opera, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA (With Dutch Knotts)Robert (background) and Dutch co-performing  with Living Cinema in Robert's home studio, 1989

 

 

December 1988

 

 

True Interactivity Down Under; True Imaging

 

(Winter) 1988

 

 

SIGGRAPH '88; Southern Currents

 

November/December 1988

 

 

ACM SIGGRAPH '88; Art Papers

 

November 1988

 

Memory Theatre One, Tisch Interactive Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

September 1988

 

Living Cinema Performance, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

 

 

June 1988

 

 

Two of a Kind; Art Com, (with Fred Truck).

 

March 1988

 

Living Cinema Initial Performance, Image Film and Video Center, Atlanta, GA

 

 

February 1988

Living Cinema (first implementation), Interactive computer-based performance system

 

 

 

 

October 1987

 

Memory Theatre One, Ultimatum II: Nouvelles Literatures, Montreal, Quibec, Canada

 

 

July 1987

 

 

Trains Passing in the Night; Art Com (with John Mabey)

 

March/April 1987

 

 

Art and Instructional Technology; Art Papers

 

1987, Issue 37

 

 

Memory Theatre Review by Fred Truck; High Performance

  Image by Fred Truck comparing structure of Living Cinema with structure of Floppy Disk

November/December 1986

 

 

Selections from my Working Notebooks Including Images and Quotes from Gabriel Vahanian; Art Papers

  Chinese Characters for "Dung Syi" or "thing"

September/October 1986

 

 

Art-Tel; Art Papers

 

September 1986

 

CANAL, Channel 11, NBC, Live Broadcast of Desktop Video Artwork, Atlanta, GA

 

  Crab Trap in Cocoa Beach, 1962

September 1986

 

Seed Text, Tight Squeeze Festival, Atlanta (Head End) , Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Vancourver, Slow-scan TV, computer graphics, internet.

 

  Image from Seed Text

July/August 1986

 

 

Interactivity Part III--Literary Machines; Art Papers

 

May/June1986

 

 

Gentle Threads; Art Papers

 

March/April 1986

 

 

Interactivity Part II; Art Papers

 

March 1986

 

Memory Theatre One, Artculture Resource Centre (A.R.C.), Toronto, Canada

 

 

January/February 1986

 

 

Interactivity; Art Papers

 

November/December 1985

 

 

Toward Computer Art; Art Papers

 

September/October 1985

 

 

SIGGRAPH '85; Art Papers

 

September 1985

 

 

Making Airwaves; Open City

 

March 1985

Memory Theatre One, Interactive Computer Program

 

 

  Kirsten Wagner exploring Memory Theatre One

December 1983

Persuasion, Soundtrack

 

 

  Page of score for Persuasion

December 1982

 

Desktop Graphic and Text Animation, Sinclair ZX-81, Faculty Exhibition, New College of California, San Francisco, CA

 

  Image of Sinclair computer used for animation

December 1980

Untitled, 16mm film, silent

 

 

 

September 1980

Dung Syi, 16mm film

 

 

  Dung Syi was a film about California and Recipes

May 1976

Implicit X Explicit, 16mm film and screen

 

 

  Image from Implicit X Explicit

June 1975   Community Video , Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York. Included in show: Point, December '73.    
April 1975 Four Cuts , 1" Color video, sound, 30 min. Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York  
December 1974 Hideout, B&W 1/2" video, sound, 20 min. Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York  
December 1973 December 73 , 1/2" B&W video, sound, 12 min. Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York  
October 1973 Intersticies, color video/16mm film, silent, 20 min. Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York  
December 1972

Point, 1/2" B&W video, 20 min., sound

Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York    
October 1972 Simultaneous Opposites 1972, 1" video, color silent Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York  
March 1972 Simultaneous Opposites, 16mm film, silent Sample frames from Simultaneous Opposites    
August 1972 Electrical Tape, 1/2" video, color sound Created at Synapse Video, Syracuse, New York