Douglas Davis

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Douglas Matthew Davis (born April 11, 1933 in Washington, DC - † January 16, 2014 in New York City ) was an American art critic , video artist , performance artist , media artist and digital artist .

life and work

Davis graduated from American University and received his masters from Rutgers University . As a visiting professor he was employed at a large number of universities. Douglas Davis started out as a freelance writer, writing reviews for the National Observer . From 1969 to 1988 he was an architecture and art critic for Newsweek magazine . Davis started his own artistic career in the 1960s. In the 1970s he experimented with video and performance .

On June 24, 1977, on the occasion of the opening of documenta 6 in Kassel, the Hessischer Rundfunk produced its first, thirty-minute live satellite service. The satellite broadcast could be received by an audience around the world. Three performances went on air. Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman gave a ten minute performance together. Joseph Beuys had the second airtime of ten minutes. The Last Nine Minutes: documenta VI satellite broadcast is the live satellite performance by Douglas Davis. He asks the audience to get in touch with him on the screen.

“My work was called 'The Last 9 Minutes' because I had the last 9 minutes of the show for my performance. I went in circles again, you see me walking around the center of the television monitor, trying to find you, to speak to you, to touch you. My recorded voice says, once in English, once in German, while the text in Spanish scrolls across the screen: 'Wherever you are, I'll find you in nine minutes. I will search all corners, all nooks and crannies in this room and in your room. Put your hands on the screen. Let me hear your clock ticking We will destroy this limitation in nine minutes. '"

- Douglas Davis

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions took place in the Center Georges Pompidou , Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (New York) and The Kitchen, New York City. His work was shown at the Venice Biennale ; at the Museum of Modern Art , New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art , New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York.

Awards

Davis received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation , the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1977 from the DAAD for Berlin.

literature

  • Five Myths of Television Power or Why the Medium Is Not the Message by Douglas Davis, Simon & Schuster, 1993 ISBN 978-0-67173-9-638
  • The Museum Transformed: Design and Culture in the Post-Pompidou Age by Douglas Davis, Abbeville Pr, 1990 ISBN 978-1-55859-0-649
  • Artculture: Essays on the post-modern by Douglas Davis, Harper & Row, 1977 ISBN 978-0-06431-0-000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The New York Times, Daniel E. Slotnik Douglas Davis, Newsweek Critic and Internet Artist, Dies at 80, accessed February 5, 2015
  2. ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 334, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  3. ^ Media Art Network Douglas Davis , accessed on February 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Telepolis, Tilman Baumgärtel I don't believe in communication! Retrieved February 5, 2015
  5. ↑ Electronic Arts Intermix Douglas Davis ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eai.org
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, Douglas Matthew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art critic, video artist, performance artist, media artist, and digital artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2014
Place of death New York City