Billy Adler

Billy Adler (born September 5, 1940 in New York City , NY ) is an American avant-garde film director , experimental filmmaker , video artist and photographer .

Life

Billy Adler studied at the University of Pennsylvania until 1962 . In 1963 he attended the Annenberg School for Communication in Philadelphia . In 1968 he founded the group Telethon together with John Margolies (* 1940) and Ilene Segalove (* 1950) .

His first photographic works were created in 1969. In 1971 he had his first television production. He was visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts . Since 1973 he has been creating video works and video environments .

The group "Telethon" combined collage-like program parts from US television in order to artistically criticize commercial film production. From the late 1970s, Adler began to pursue other artistic paths with the color camera, for example he filmed roses in a glass of water or Alka Seltzer bubbling in a glass.

“ He is fascinated by the change in electronic color, the gentle transition between color levels that is barely noticeable to the eye. His sensitive video tapes are in extreme contrast to color electronic works that are created with the synthesizer. Only nuances are changed, the color radiance of electronics in the apparent reality, the play with real color and artificial electronic color. "

Billy Adler was represented with “ Color ” (eight pieces) as a participant in Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 in the video department .

Billy Adler lives in Los Angeles , California .

literature

• Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance . Volume 2: photography, film, video . Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books . Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .

Web links

• The work of Telethon (PDF file; 489 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Documenta 6 catalog: Volume 2: Photography, film, video . Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X , p. 326.