Exhibit At the UAM Showcases Old Artistc Footage

An exhibition of art pieces in the form of video clips, called Art/Tapes/22, is on display at Cal State Long Beach's University Art Museum until October 19th.
The exhibit is basically a gallery of video clips, made from 1973 to 1976. The pieces vary greatly in what they display. Some are silent, but a great number of them have headphones provided to listen to the audio on the tapes. The majority were filmed in black and white, though a few of the works are in color.
Among those works being displayed are "In Version", made in 1974, featuring nothing more than a man pressing his face up against a pane of transparent glass multiple times being played over and over on a loop, as are all the pieces.
Also displayed is "Theme Song", a tape of a man laying on the floor and looking into the camera, casually talking to it with music playing in the background, as if the camera were a lover. He attempts to seduce the viewer by looking directly at them and saying things like, "Whatever you wanna do baby, whatever is fine..." in a singsong voice.
Over 150 artists contributed to this exhibit, which began its life in Florence, Italy and has traveled all around the world. The medium of display ranges from old television sets, to projectors, to cameras that make the viewer part of the exhibit.