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Peter d'Agostino

Peter d'Agostino is an American artist and professor emeritus of film and media arts, Temple University, Philadelphia. His pioneering video, photo and new media projects.  During the past five decades,his pioneering video, photography, and new media projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, broadcast productions, and virtual events.

Life

Peter d'Agostino was born in 1945, East Harlem, New York and moved to The Bronx in 1950. He began drawing and painting at an early age, attended New York City’s High School of Art & Design, Art Students League and School of Visual Arts (BFA). He also spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts, Naples, Italy. In 1968, he relocated to San Francisco, first to the Haight-Ashbury district and later to Potrero Hill, where his focus shifted from painting to concept oriented works in the form of slide projections, film loops and video, resulting in his first one-person exhibition, PROJECTIONS at the Quay Gallery, SF, 1973. In the first round of the National Endowment for the Art’s video grants, D’Agostino was awarded a fellowship for The Walks Series video installation, exhibited at the 80 Langton Street art gallery, SF, 1975. Later that year he also completed his graduate studies at San Francisco State University (MA).

Selected Exhibitions and Collections

Major group exhibitions are: Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, São Paulo Bienal, Brazil; Kwangju Biennial, South Korea; Reading Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York; California Video, Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Under the Big Black Sun, MOCA, LA; Space-Time-Sound: Conceptual Art in the SF Bay Area -the 1970s, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, ICI traveling exhibition. Solo exhibitions include: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Galerie de Arte, University of Brasilia, Brazil; Red House Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; Lehman College Art Gallery, NY. His works are in the collections of: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; National Gallery of Canada; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Foundation La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain.  

Surveys of his World-Wide-Walks projects have been presented at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (2003), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2007), UPV / EHU Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (2012), Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, PA (2018). Initiated as The Walk Series, video "documentation/performances" in 1973, World-Wide-Walks evolved into video-web projects during the 1990s, mobile-locative media installations in the 2000s, and 360 VR videos in the 2010s. The projects explore mixed realities of walking through physical environments and virtually surfing the web, while focusing on a changing climate in recent decades. A book documenting this work, Peter d’Agostino: World-Wide- Walks / Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers, was published in 2019. His video works, distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York include: World-Wide-Walks @40 ( Selected works, 1973-2012 ) and World-Wide-Walks @50 ( Selected installations, 1973-2023 ) https://www.eai.org/artists/peter-d-agostino/titles]

“Peter d'Agostino has investigated the personal, cultural and technological systems of signs, language and communications that permeate everyday life. The work draws on a broad range of discourses — linguistics, communications and mass media theory, history, aesthetics, physics, architecture — as well as popular formats and personal references to examine a media-driven consumer culture and its information systems.

In a sophisticated synthesis of theory and art practice, d'Agostino applies semiotic, deconstructive and appropriative strategies to his analyses and critiques of the structure, function and influence of broadcast television, the web and other emerging technologies.”  https://www.eai.org/artists/peter-d-agostino/biography

Projects include:  ALPHA, TRANS, CHUNG: a photographic model (1976-77) photo-text-video installations based on the films of Godard, Robbe-Grillet and Antonioni. Videos: Coming & Goings (1977-79) Proposal for QUBE (1978), QUARKS (1980) TeleTapes (1981).

Exploring the use of increasingly sophisticated technologies, his multi-level interactive works of the 1980s rely on ‘viewer-interactors’ to activate a multiplicity of associative meanings in complex nonlinear open-ended combinations of images-sounds-texts. Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-1999, a survey of this work was presented at the Lehman College Art Gallery, NY, 1999. Projects include: DOUBLE YOU (and X,Y.Z ), TRACES, TransmissionS, VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality. TransmissionS: In the WELL installation (1990) and VR/RV (1995) both received honorary awards for interactive art at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.

Selected fellowships, grants, residencies  

National Endowment for the Arts (1974, 1977, 1979, 1989); Pew Trusts (1992, 2002, 2006, 2009); Japan Foundation (1993, 2000); Onassis Foundation (2008); Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund (1988);  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts ( 1983,1986,1992,1996); Leonardo/Art & Climate Change award (2009); Fulbright Awards to Brazil (1996), Australia (2003),  Italy (2006). D'Agostino has been artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen; the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Italy; Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada;  a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT; Art-Sci + Lab, UCLA; as well as a visiting artist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, and the American Academy in Rome.

Teaching

Peter d’Agostino’s teaching positions include: UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wright State University, San Francisco Art Institute, and Lone Mountain College, USF. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Arts, Climate, Sustainability & the Arts (CSArts) at Temple University, Philadelphia.  He divides his time between Elkins Park, PA and the San Francisco Bay Area.  

Publications

Peter d'Agostino has written and edited numerous essays and books on video, photography, language, and semiotics. The books include: ALPHA, TRANS, CHUNG (1978), Still Photography: the problematic model  (co-editor with Lew Thomas, 1981), Coming & Goings (1982), The Un/Necessary Image (co-editor with Antoni Muntadas, 1983),  Transmission: Theory and Practice for a New Television Aesthetics (1985) and Transmission: Toward a Post-television Culture  (co-editor with David Tafler, 1995).  He is also a contributor to Photography and Language (1976), Illuminating Video (1990) , Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996) Video Writings by Artists, 1970–1990 ( 2017).  Publications featuring his work include: Video Art (2003), New Media in Art (2005), Art & Electronic Media (2009) and Digital Art (2008, 2023).

Bibliography

Atkins, Robert, ed. Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity & Intervention, 1978-1999. New York: Lehman College, NY: 1999. Texts by Robert Atkins, Margaret Morse, David I. Tafler, and Peter d'Agostino.

Bonet, Eugeni, ed. Video Writings by Artists (1970-1990 ). Barcelona: 2017. Texts by Peter d’Agostino, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Mary Lucier, Bill Viola and Peter Wiebel.

d’Agostino, Peter and David I. Tafler, eds. World-Wide-Walks / Peter d'Agostino: Crossing Natural, Cultural, Virtual Frontiers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press / Intellect Press, UK: 2019. Introduction by Kristine Stiles, with texts by Peter d’Agostino, David I. Tafler, Gabriel Villota Toyos, Christiane Paul.

d’Agostino, Peter.  Peter d’Agostino: A-bombs / Climate walks, Transmission, CA: 2020. Texts by: Kristine Stiles, Christiane Paul, Helen Glazer, David I. Tafler, and Peter d’Agostino.

d’Agostino, Peter.  Peter d’Agostino: COLD / HOT – Walks, Wars & Climate Change,  Martin Art Gallery, PA: 2018. Texts by David I. Tafler, Kristine Stiles, Christiane Paul, and Peter d’Agostino. Foley, Suzanne

Foley, Suzanne. Space-Time-Sound: Conceptual Art in the SF Bay Area -the 1970s, University of Washington Press, WA: 1981. Texts by Suzanne Foley and Constance Lewallen.

Lewallen, Constance, Karen Moss, eds. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, University of California Press, CA: 2011. Texts by Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Anne Rorimer.

Phillips, Glenn, ed. California Video: Artists and Histories, Getty Publications, CA: 2008. Texts by Kathy Rae Huffman, Robert R. Riley, Steve Seid, and Bruce Yonemoto.

Schimmel, Paul and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, LA MOCA, CA: 2011. Texts by Frances Colpitt, Thomas Crow, Peter Frank, Rebecca Solnit, and Kristine Stiles.

Villota Toyos, Gabriel. Peter d'Agostino: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / 1973 – 2012, Bizkala Aretoa Bilbao, Spain: 2010. Text by Kristine Stiles, David I. Tafler, and Peter d'Agostino.

Links

http://peterdagostino.com

http://peterdagostino.org/world-wide-walks/

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