In the Beginning, There Was the Electron
Celebrating X-TRA’s winter issue
A screening of early video and artist’s television
Selections by Kris Paulsen

X-TRA is excited to share our new issue and a screening of related contents with the Contemporary Arts Forum.

The screening of artist’s television and NCET work is related to a feature in our winter issue by Kris Paulsen. “In the Beginning, There was the Electron.” Paulsen’s feature, traces television from its supposed invention in San Francisco by boy genius Philo T. Farnsworth in 1927 to the psychedelic early video works of Stephen Beck, Joanne Kryger, and other artists in the late 60s and early 70s produced by The National Center for Experiments in Television, which began in the late 60s and made its home at KQED in San Francisco.

Image credit: KQED/NCET, “A Visit to the Center,” 1973. David Dowe, Jerry Hunt, and Marvin Druckler create live feedback “mandalas.” Video still. © KQED. Collection of the Pacific Film Archive. Photo courtesy of KQED and the Pacific Film Archive.

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