Les Levine
Les Levine (born October 6, 1935 in Dublin , Ireland ) is a pioneer of video and media art based in New York.
Career
Levine was born in Dublin and studied at the University of the Arts London . In 1958 he emigrated to Canada and worked as a process designer for Marvel Jewelry in Toronto . In 1964 he moved to New York City . Like many artists of his generation, he exhibited his works primarily in North America.
He made his first video tapes in 1964. In the mid-1960s, Les Levine, like Nam June Paik , was one of the first owners of the Portapak video cameras, which had just hit the American market . In 1968 he was the first artist to create a closed-circuit installation for his installation Iris , a forerunner of today's video surveillance systems . Levine (1975) was filmed on Manhattan's Bowery Street. With his sunglasses on, he looks into the camera. He refuses to make any contact with passers-by and keeps repeating: I am an artist, I have nothing to do with you. I am an artist, I don't want to be involved. In New York, Dublin, Vienna, Munich and other cities, Levine realized large poster campaigns in city centers from the early 1980s. The motifs refer to the respective city. Levine uses advertising language for the poster design .
Levine has written articles for various newspapers and magazines, including The Village Voice and Art in America .
Les Levine made a name for himself as a professor and panelist at several different universities, including New York University and William Paterson University .
He founded the Museum of Mott Art in 1970 and became its director.
Exhibitions
Levine has created more than 200 videos and he has hosted more than a hundred solo exhibitions in America and Europe.
He took part in documenta 6 , documenta 8 and the 49th Venice Biennale and exhibited in 1997 in the Gallery of the City of Stuttgart / Kunstmuseum Stuttgart ("Art Can See") and in 2011 in the Irish Museum of Modern Art .
Memberships
- Bass player with The Del-Vikings , a doo wop music group
- Member of The Nova Convention with Timothy Leary , William S. Burroughs , Brion Gysin & Robert Anton Wilson .
Awards
- Les Levine was Artist in Residence in Aspen, Colorado in 1967 and 1969, at NSCAD University in 1973 and 1975 at the University of Illinois at Chicago .
- In 1967 Levine won first prize at the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale . In 1974 and 1980 Levine was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts .
literature
- Art can see - media sculpture , Les Levine, 1997 ISBN 978-3-89322-9-130
- Johann-Karl Schmidt , Art Can See - Les Levine , Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-913-2 .
Web links
- Interview by Davidson Gigliotti Les Levine
- Der Spiegelː No Choice-Les Levine
Individual evidence
- ^ Art can see - Les Levine media sculpture , accessed on August 31, 2014.
- ^ Media Art Network: Les Levine , accessed on August 31, 2014.
- ↑ Les Levine , artwiki
- ↑ Gene Youngblood: expanded cinemaː Les Levine accessed on August 31, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Feldman Gallery New Media Projects - Les Levine ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 31, 2014.
- ↑ Ro Galleryː Les Levine accessed on August 31, 2014 (English)
- ^ Exhibition overview , accessed on August 31, 2014.
- ^ National Gallery of Canada-Les Levine , accessed August 31, 2014.
- ↑ Irish Museum of Modern Art Les Levine accessed on August 31, 2014 (English)
- ^ The Nova Convention , accessed August 31, 2014.
- ↑ The Nova Convention accessed on August 31, 2014
- ↑ Frank Zappa, John Cage, Patti Smith & others celebrate William S. Burroughs at the nova convention , accessed on August 31, 2014 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levine, Les |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish-American pioneer of video and media art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |