Guide to the Christine Tamblyn Papers

Processed by Adrian Turner.

Special Collections and Archives

The UCI Libraries

P.O. Box 19557

University of California

Irvine, California 92623-9557

Phone: (949) 824-3947

Fax: (949) 824-2472

Email: spcoll@uci.edu

URL: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/speccoll.html

Guide to the Christine Tamblyn Papers

Collection number: MS-F11

Special Collections and Archives

The UCI Libraries

University of California

Irvine, California

Contact Information

Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Phone: (949) 824-3947
Fax: (949) 824-2472
Email: spcoll@uci.edu
URL: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/speccoll.html

Processed by:: Adrian Turner
Date Completed:: 2001
Encoded by:: Andre Ambrus

Descriptive Summary

Title: Christine Tamblyn papers,

Date (inclusive): 1962-1998,

Date (bulk): (bulk 1976-1997)

Collection number: MS-F011

Creator: Tamblyn, Christine

Extent: 20.1 linear feet (44 boxes and 14 oversize folders)

Repository: University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.

Irvine, California 92623-9557

Abstract: This collection comprises notes, correspondence, interviews, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, books, catalogues, printed ephemera, and artifacts collected and created during the life and career of artist, critic, and educator Christine Tamblyn. The bulk of this collection consists of materials documenting Tamblyn's artwork, writings, academic career, and professional activities from the 1970s through 1990s. The collection also includes some personal files and juvenilia. The collection is particularly strong in the area of conceptual art, performance, video and digital media in the 1970s and 1980s, representing her work as a multimedia, video, and performance artist as well her role as writer and critic. Files include extensive documentation of two of Tamblyn's CD-ROM works, She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993) and Mistaken Identities (1995). Materials concerning such artists as Karen Finley, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and others can be found throughout the collection. Significant issues and debates in the U.S. art world of the 1970s to 1990s are well documented in Tamblyn's articles, essays, and reviews for a variety of publications, including Afterimage, Art news, Cinematograph, Art week, High Performance, Leonardo, and New Art Examiner. Materials also reflect Tamblyn's participation in the national and international art world, primarily through her attendance at and presentations for conferences and symposia, but the geographic emphasis is Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. The collection also contains posthumously collected materials, including the multimedia CD-ROM Archival Quality (1998).

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection open for research.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.

Preferred Citation

Christine Tamblyn papers. MS-F11 Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Christine Tamblyn, 1998.

Processing Information

Preliminary processing by Laura Clark Brown in 1998 and Paula Ross in 1999. Processing and guide completed by Adrian Turner in 2001.

Biography

Christine Tamblyn was an American visual artist and critic active in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1970s through 1990s, and known for her performance pieces and multimedia works utilizing CD-ROMs and video. She was born in 1951 in Waukegan, Illinois and attended a Catholic girls' school. In 1968 or 1969 she moved to Chicago where she audited courses at the University of Chicago while working as an administrative assistant for an insurance company. She began her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in approximately 1973 and taught graduate-level courses in video while still an undergraduate. She also worked as the Video and Performance Editor for the New Art Examiner journal from 1977 to 1979, a beginning in her long and prolific career as an art critic. She quickly became an active participant in the flourishing community of Chicago video artists. In a series of lectures about her own work, Tamblyn noted that she focused on video and performance art at SAIC since they were "the closest to everyday life." In the area of performance she was strongly influenced by the work of Allan Kaprow and the Happenings artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Among her video teachers was Phil Morton, who in the early 1970s founded the Video Data Bank at SAIC. Morton, Dan Sandin (inventor of the Image Processor, an analog video synthesizer), Tom DeFanti, and Bob Snyder were part of what became known as the Chicago Imagist school of video makers. This group was the "first generation" of video artists to incorporate the use of special effects into their work, a practice that was initially met with derision by other artists who termed the results "video wallpaper."

Tamblyn herself went on to produce video and performance pieces in which she utilized the technologies available at the time to manipulate autobiographically-based materials that she subjected to filtering, with influences ranging from Dada and surrealist art, the mysticism of Rosicrucianism and the Cabala, to poststructuralist and feminist theories. The theoretical foundations that shaped her work can be easily traced through her decades-spanning habit of journal writing as well as her detailed research for exhibition catalogue essays, articles of art criticism, conference and symposia presentations, and academic papers.

After graduating from SAIC around 1979 she moved to New York City. She described her work there as "stylized Neo-Expressionist performances in East Village clubs." The New York period was a difficult one. She taught for a time at the School of Visual Arts and worked in clerical positions. Without access to equipment, however, she could not make the kind of technology-dependent work she had spent four years producing while in Chicago.

From the late 1970s through the 1990s she was actively involved in a variety of national and international conferences, workshops, symposia, lectures, and festivals. She also became progressively involved in work as a curator in the 1980s. In approximately 1982 she entered the MFA program at the University of California, San Diego where she could study with conceptual artists she admired, including Eleanor and David Antin and Allan Kaprow. She received her degree in 1986. Tamblyn also began working with feminist performance artists during this time. In 1984, at the invitation of the Los Angeles Woman's Building, she created As the Worm Turns, a response to what she considered a disturbing anti-pornography stance within certain sectors of the women's movement.

In 1985 she moved to San Francisco and began teaching at San Francisco State University (SFSU). In San Francisco she actively worked as a contributing editor for Artweek, an editor for Cinematograph, and a correspondent for Art news. The issue of censorship and the arts, which occupied the U.S. art world's center stage for much of the late 1980s and early 1990s (funding of the National Endowment for the Arts was a key site of contention), surfaced in her career as an art critic and curator. Tableaux Vivants, a group show sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission and curated by Tamblyn, and the ensuing Climate of Censorship conference in 1989 unleashed a fury of protests and discussions in response to Tamblyn's conflict with one of the participating artists' large-scale sculptures.

The digital revolution of the 1980s and early 1990s found Tamblyn at the forefront, stemming from her early exposure to and use of technology in her pieces. An artist who often collaborated with others, Tamblyn's first CD-ROM, She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993), was a joint project with her students at SFSU, Marjorie Franklin and Paul Tompkins. This was one of the first CD-ROMs created and produced by a woman artist. Women and technology remained a topic of intense interest for Tamblyn throughout her career. This is reflected both in journals from her undergraduate days, in which she recorded her frustrating attempts to forge a place for herself as a woman in the male-dominated world of media labs and studios, and in her commitment to new digital genres, which resulted in two additional CD-ROMs, Mistaken Identities (1995) and the posthumous Archival Quality (1998).

Between 1990 and 1996 she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Florida International University, Miami (FIU). She left FIU in 1996 for the Department of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), due to what she perceived as a lack of support for the art program. At UCI she was instrumental in developing the foundation for a digital arts program.

Tamblyn's conceptual and intellectual products are at least as significant as her art production. Part of her life-long project was the blurring of borders between art and living. Until the very end of her life, she continued working on the project she had begun as a young artist, the desire to, as she put it, "make my life a work of art. Having my life as my work of art makes my art totally dependent on the contexts that I operate in." Tamblyn died of breast cancer on January 1, 1998 in San Francisco.

A biographical article on Tamblyn is available online through "University of California: In Memoriam."

Chronology

1951	Born in Waukegan, Illinois and lives in Libertyville.
Ca. 1968	Moves to Chicago and begins to audit courses at the University of Chicago.
Ca. 1973	Begins studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ca. 1979	B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
1977-1979	Video and Performance Editor, New Art Examiner.
1978-1980	Instructor and Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
1980	Moves to New York City.
Ca. 1982	Begins M.F.A. studies at the University of California, San Diego.
1982	Lecturer, The School of Visual Arts, New York.
1983-1985	Teaching assistant, University of California, San Diego.
1984	Research Assistant to Moira Roth, University of California, San Diego.
1985	Moves to San Francisco.
1986	M.F.A. University of California, San Diego.
1986- ca. 1994	Lecturer and Graduate Program Coordinator, San Francisco State University.
1986-1989	Contributing Editor, Artweek.
1987-1988	Editor, Cinematograph.
1987-1993	Correspondent, Art news.
1988-1990	Visiting Assistant Professor, San Francisco Art Institute.
1989	Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1990	Lecturer, Mills College.
1990-1993	Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
1994-1996	Assistant Professor, Florida International University.
1996-1998	Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine.
1998	Dies on January 1st in San Francisco.

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection comprises notes, correspondence, interviews, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, books, catalogues, printed ephemera, and artifacts collected and created during the life and career of artist, critic, and educator Christine Tamblyn. The bulk of this collection consists of materials documenting Tamblyn's artwork, writings, academic career, and professional activities from the 1970s through 1990s. The collection also includes some personal files and juvenilia. The collection is particularly strong in the area of conceptual art, performance, video and digital media in the 1970s and 1980s, representing her work as a multimedia, video, and performance artist as well her role as writer and critic. Files include extensive documentation of two of Tamblyn's CD-ROM works, She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993) and Mistaken Identities (1995). Materials concerning such artists as Karen Finley, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and others can be found throughout the collection. Significant issues and debates in the U.S. art world of the 1970s to 1990s are well documented in Tamblyn's articles, essays, and reviews for a variety of publications, including Afterimage, Art news, Cinematograph, Art week, High Performance, Leonardo, and New Art Examiner. Materials also reflect Tamblyn's participation in the national and international art world, primarily through her attendance at and presentations for conferences and symposia, but the geographic emphasis is Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. The collection also contains posthumously collected materials, including the multimedia CD-ROM Archival Quality (1998).

Video material is in VHS, 8-mm., Hi-8, and U-matic formats. The bulk of this material is recorded on U-matic tapes. Audio material is primarily recorded on standard audio cassettes although some material is recorded on 3 1/4" tape.

Tamblyn's 1996 curriculum vitae filed in Series 2 contains a comprehensive chronological list of her artwork, publications, and professional activities, as well as a detailed bibliography of works about her.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into 6 series.

Series 1. Artwork, 1973-1997. 8.2 linear ft.
Series 2. Personal and biographical files, 1967-1998. 0.4 linear ft.
Series 3. Academic files, 1973-1996. 1.4 linear ft.
Series 4. Writings, 1962-1997. 6.7 linear ft.
Series 5. Professional files, 1978-1997. 1.9 linear ft.
Series 6. Research files, ca. 1976-1997. 0.7 linear ft.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Tamblyn, Christine--Archives.

Tamblyn, Christine. She loves it, she loves it not : women and technology--Archival resources.

Tamblyn, Christine. Mistaken identities--Archival resources.

Tamblyn, Christine. Archival quality--Archival resources.

Finley, Karen--Archival resources.

Hershman-Leeson, Lynn, 1941- --Archival resources.

University of California, Irvine--Faculty--Archival resources.

Video art--Archival resources.

Performance art--Archival resources.

Interactive multimedia--Archival resources.

Feminism and art--Archival resources.

Art and technology--Archival resources.

Art criticism--Archival resources.

Feminist art criticism--Archival resources.

Art, modern--20th century--Illinois--Chicago--Archival resources.

Art, modern--20th century--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Archival resources.

Genres and Forms of Material

Photographic prints.

Slides.

Negatives.

Sound recordings.

Video recordings.

Floppy disks.

CD-ROMs.

Artifacts.

Diaries.

Occupations

Artists.

Art critics.

Index Terms Related to this Collection

Tamblyn, Christine. She loves it, she loves it not : women and technology.

Tamblyn, Christine. Mistaken identities.

Tamblyn, Christine. Archival quality.

Collection Contents

Series 1. Artwork, 1973-1997

Physical Description: 8.2 linear ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series comprises multimedia artwork, artifacts, and documentation of artwork and performances created by Tamblyn, or co-created by Tamblyn and others. Her works were presented in a variety of formats, including photographic prints, slides, audio and video recordings, and CD-ROMs. Video and audio tapes contain mastered material and raw footage (original and appropriated) incorporated by Tamblyn into her artwork. These files also contain scripts, research materials and notes, show announcements, flyers, posters, correspondence, exhibition contracts, press releases, and reviews of performances. They also contain other conference- and lecture-related materials documenting individual performances.

For articles published by Tamblyn not restricted to her individual works, see Subseries 4.1. For materials relating to Tamblyn's involvement in conferences, panels, and exhibits that do not document her individual works, see Series 5.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically by title of the work. Materials relating to individual performances or exhibitions are filed together under the heading Performance and exhibit files. All other materials concerning the research and creation of works are filed together under the heading Research and production files. Individual works that were published or appeared in publications are indicated by headings with the title of the publication in italics and the year of the publication in parentheses. Materials relating to artwork that may not have been exhibited or published, including drafts, research notes, and other documents, are filed under the general heading Miscellaneous artwork and projects.

"Archival quality," Los Angeles Center for Performing Arts exhibit materials, 1998.

Note

See series 2.

Box 1 : 1-8

"As the worm turns"

Box 1 : 1 and 39

Research and production files, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 39 : MS-F11-V24/25

Video recorded raw material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 2 U-matic tapes.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V26

Video recorded mastered material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 1 : 2-7

Performance and exhibit files

Box 1 : 2-3

Miscellaneous, 1985-1995.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 1 : 4

Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Morro Bay, 1987

Box 1 : 5

Sushi, San Diego, 1985

Box 1 : 6-7

Women's Building, Los Angeles and S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, 1984-1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 7 printed color digital scans, 4 color slides, 1 black and white photographic print, and 1 sheet of contact prints.

Box 1 : 8

Theory and flesh (1986), transcript of performance, 1986

Box 34 and 38

"Atlantis' soundtrack"

Box 38 : MS-F11-A01

Audio recorded material, 1973.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 34 : MS-F11-F01

Filmed material, 1973.

Physical Description: 1 8-mm. film.

Box 1 : 9

"Blood stained black velvet," research and production file and Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia performance and exhibit file, ca. 1975.

Physical Description: Includes 20 color slides and 2 color photographic prints.

Box 1 : 10-19 and 39

"The Brain (enigmatic contrivances)," with Marlene Alt and Tracy Edling

Box 1 : 10-12

Research and production files, circa 1984.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V27/30

Video recorded material, 1984.

Physical Description: 4 U-matic tapes.

Box 1 : 13-19

Performance and exhibit files

Box 1 : 13-14

Society for Photographic Education west regional conference, San Francisco, 1986.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 1 : 15-18

Sushi, San Diego, 1984.

Physical Description: 4 folders, including 170 color slides and 21 black and white photographic prints.

Box 1 : 19

Works, San Jose, 1987

Box 2 : 1

"Casanova," research and production file, undated

Box 2 : 2-3 and 39

"Chained reactions," with Barbara Latham

Box 2 : 2

Research and production file, 1986

Box 39 : MS-F11-V31/33

Video recorded material, 1982-1983.

Physical Description: 3 U-matic tapes.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V34

Video recorded mastered material, 1982.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tapes.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V35

Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material, circa 1982-circa 1983.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 2 : 3

Performance and exhibit file, miscellaneous, 1983-1996

Box 2 : 4-5

"Corporate crime/malicious mischief: power and mediation: a fin de siécle tautology," performance and exhibit files, 1987-1988.

Note

See also the file "San Francisco 'art critic' performance" in this series.

Box 2 : 4

Installation Gallery, San Diego, 1987.

Physical Description: Includes 3 black and white slides and 1 black and white photographic print.

Box FB-27 : 6

Oversize material, 1987.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 2 : 5

Media Gallery, San Francisco, 1987-1988

Box 2 : 6

"Diderot and the last luminaire," S.I.T.E. Gallery, Los Angeles performance and exhibit file, 1994

Box 2 : 7-14

"Duel/duet," with Joanna Frueh

Box 2 : 7-10

Research and production files, 1989.

Physical Description: 4 folders, including 6 color slides.

Box 2 : 11-13

Performance and exhibit files

Box 2 : 11

Miscellaneous, 1990

Box 2 : 12

Opening the circle of identities, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, 1989

Box 2 : 13

Women's Caucus for Art national conference, New York, 1990

Box 2 : 14

Erotic faculties (1996), transcript of performance, 1996

Box 2 : 15-17 and 38, 39

"Entropic pursuits: the infinite regress of the doppelganger"

Box 38 and 39

Audio and video recorded material

Box 38 : MS-F11-A02

Audio recorded material, circa 1980-circa 1989.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V36/37

Video recorded mastered material and duplicate copies, circa 1980-circa 1989.

Physical Description: 2 U-matic tapes

Box 2 : 15-17

Performance and exhibit files

Box 2 : 15

N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, 1978-1980.

Physical Description: Includes 6 color photographic prints.

Box FB-21 : 2

Oversize material, 1978-1980.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 2 : 16

New Video and Performance Art in Detroit, Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1979

Box 2 : 17

Women's Caucus for Art national conference, Detroit, 1978.

Physical Description: Includes 9 color slides.

Box 2 : 18

"The Eye and the I: photographs made with a pinhole camera," photograph album, 1973.

Physical Description: 13 black and white photographic prints.

Box 2 : 19

"Faction," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco performance and exhibit file, 1988

Box 3 : 1

"Falan your knees, Louise," Chicago Filmmakers performance and exhibit file, 1979

Box 41 : MS-F11-V60

Video recorded material, 1979.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 3 : 2

"Flaming Rose and Ichabod McCracken search for the philosopher's stone," with Richard Horner, The School of Visual Arts, New York performance and exhibit file, 1981.

Physical Description: Includes 35 color slides.

Box 38 : MS-F11-A03

Audio recorded material, circa 1981.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V38

Video recorded material, 1981.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V39

"Flaming Rose improvisations with Barbara Latham," video recorded material, circa 1981.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V40

"Flaming Rose's debut and diary experiment," video recorded material, circa 1981.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 3 : 3-7

"A Germ of truth"

Box 3 : 3-4

Research and production files, 1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 3 : 5-6

Performance and exhibit files

Box 3 : 5

National Association of Artists' Organizations conference, Los Angeles, 1987-1988

Box FB-28 : 3

Oversize material, 1987.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 3 : 6

S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, 1988

Box 3 : 7

Acts (1996), transcript of performance, 1996

Box 3 : 8-9

"Grafting tentacles on the octopussy"

Box 3 : 8

Performance and exhibit file, circa 1994.

Physical Description: 4 black and white photographic prints.

Box 3 : 9

Lusitania (1994), text of exhibit, 1994

Box 3 : 10

"Having a wonderful time, wish we were here," The School of the Art Institute of Chicago performance and exhibit file, circa 1975-circa 1985

Box 6 : 4

"I did it for love," Dropped lines exhibit, Seneca Falls Gallery, San Diego performance and exhibit file, 1983

Box FB-28 : 4

Oversize material, 1983.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3 : 11

"I was raped by a swan, or God made me pregnant," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago performance and exhibit file, circa 1975-circa 1985.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V41/43

Video recorded mastered and duplicated material, circa 1975-circa 1985.

Physical Description: 3 U-matic tapes.

Box 3 : 12

"Is communism possible without manipulation?," performance and exhibition file, 1977.

Physical Description: 2 color photographic prints.

Box 38 : MS-F11-A04

Audio recorded material, 1977.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 3 : 13-18

"Mama dada, dada dada," with Wendy Geller and Ruth Wallen

Box 3 : 13-15

Research and production files, 1981-1984.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 3 : 16-18

Performance and exhibit file, Sushi, San Diego, 1984.

Physical Description: 3 folders, including 40 color slides and 12 black and white photographic prints.

Box 3 : 19

"Melody, voices, tail!," with Auste Peciura, Inroads, New York performance and exhibit file, 1981.

Physical Description: Includes 8 color slides.

Box 3 : 20

"Memory capitalism," research and production file and Minneapolis Institute of the Arts performance and exhibit file, 1978.

Physical Description: Includes 4 color slides.

Box 41 : MS-F11-V60

Video recorded duplicated material, 1976.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V44

Video recorded mastered material, circa 1976-circa 1978.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 3 : 21 - 4 : 2 and 34, 36, 38, 41, 43

Miscellaneous artwork and projects

Box 34 and 38

Audio recorded material

Box 38 : MS-F11-A05/07

Miscellaneous, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 3 cassettes.

Box 34 : MS-F11-AT01

Orpheus or X-mas, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 3 1/4" tape.

Box 34 : MS-F11-AT02

Richard Foreman, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 3 1/4" tape.

Box 34 : MS-F11-AT03

Unidentified, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 3 1/4" tape.

Box 36

Note cards, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box FB-29 : 2-3

Scrapbooks, 1975-1977.

Physical Description: 2 oversize folders.

Box 3 : 21 - 4 : 2

Scripts, drafts, and research materials, 1975.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box FB-21 : 3

Oversize material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 41 and 43

Video recorded material

Box 43 : MS-F11-V22

First week of using camera, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 Hi-8 tape.

Box 41 : MS-F11-V64

New video and performance art in Detroit, third performance, Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1979.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 41 : MS-F11-V65

Performance sampler for Detroit, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 41 : MS-F11-V66

Processing of objects from grandfather's house, circa 1981.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 4 : 3-4

Miscellaneous performance and exhibit files

Box 4 : 3-4

1976-1997.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box FB-27 : 6

Oversize material, circa 1976-1981.

Physical Description: 6 items.

Box 4 : 5 - 5 : 16 and 44

"Mistaken identities"

Box 4 : 5-9

Research and production files, 1995.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 4 : 10

CD-ROM materials and user's guide, 1995

Box 44 : MS-F11-CD01

CD-ROM, 1995.

Physical Description: System requirements: Macintosh Centris or greater or compatible, color monitor.

Box 4 : 11 - 5 : 15 and 44

Performance and exhibit files

Box 4 : 11

Cynema: an interactive playground, 5th Brisbane International Film Festival, 1996

Box 4 : 12

Florida Art Center, Ground Level Gallery, 1995

Box 4 : 13

Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1996

Box 4 : 14-15

I.S.E.A. 96, International symposium on electronic art, Rotterdam, 1996.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box XOS 1

Oversize material, 1996.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4 : 16

Mill Valley new media/videofest, 1997

Box 4 : 17 - 5 : 3

Miscellaneous, 1995-1997.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 5 : 4

Moveable feast, S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, 1996

Box 5 : 5

New York exposition of short film and video, 1996

Box FB-27 : 6

Oversize material, 1996.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5 : 6

S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '96, New Orleans, CD-ROM materials and user's guide, 1995-1996

Box 44 : MS-F11-CD02/03

CD-ROMs, 1995.

Physical Description: 2 items. System requirements: MacOS 7.0, Windows TM NT, 3.1, 95 or greater or compatible.

Box 5 : 7

Tech.no site, Rike Gallery, University of Dayton, Ohio, 1996

Box 5 : 8-10

Techno-seduction, Cooper Union, New York, 1996-1997.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 5 : 11

Virtual female, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco, 1995

Box FB-28 : 4

Oversize material, 1995.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 5 : 12-13

Visual arts faculty exhibition, with Kate Kretz, University Art Museum, Florida International University, 1996.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 5 : 14-15

World wide video festival, The Hague, 1996.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 5 : 16

Leonardo (1997), article, 1997

Box 5 : 17

"My cable release film," research and production files

Box 38 : MS-F11-A08

Audio recorded material, 1976.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 34 : MS-F11-F02

Filmed material, 1976.

Physical Description: 1 8-mm. film

Box 5 : 18

"My life in the avant garde," research and production file and Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco performance and exhibit file, 1991

Box 38 : MS-F11-A09

Audio recorded material, circa 1991.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 5 : 19 - 6 : 1 and 33 : 1

"Paracritical cannabalism"

Box 5 : 19

Research and production file, circa 1991-circa 1992

Box 6 : 1 and 33 : 1

Performance and exhibit files

Box 33 : 1

Berkeley Art Center, 1991-1992

Box 6 : 1

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, circa 1991-circa 1992.

Physical Description: 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 6 : 2

"Paracritical cannabalism 2," Women's Art Project, San Francisco Women's Center performance and exhibit file, 1993.

Physical Description: Includes 40 color slides.

Box FB-21 : 4

Oversize material, 1993.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Box 2 : 3 and 6 : 3-4 and 39, 40

"Pathetic fallacy," with Richard Horner

Box 40 : MS-F11-V45

Research and production file, video recorded master copy, 1980.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 6 : 3-4 and 2 : 3

Performance and exhibit files

Box 6 : 3

Dropped lines, Seneca Falls Gallery, San Diego, 1983

Box FB-28 : 4

Oversize material, 1983.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 2 : 3 and 6 : 4

Miscellaneous, 1980-1986

Physical Description: 2 folders. Includes 12 color photographic prints.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V35

Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material, circa 1980-circa 1986.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 6 : 4

Works from Chicago, Experimental Video Studio, Art Institute of Chicago screening, 1981

Box 6 : 5-9

"A Personal history of the female body"

Box 6 : 5

Research and production file, circa 1989-circa 1992

Box 6 : 6-9

Performance and exhibit files

Box 6 : 6

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1989-1990

Box 6 : 7

Miscellaneous, 1990-1991

Box 6 : 8-9

Performing/deforming/inversion/subversion conference, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 30 color slides and 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 6 : 10

"Reiteration/obliteration," research and production file, 1978.

Physical Description: Includes 2 color slides.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V46

Video recorded material, 1978.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 6 : 11

"Retrospective, 1951-1984 ," Mandeville Annex Gallery, University of California, San Diego performance and exhibit file, 1984-1985.

Physical Description: Includes 16 black and white photographic prints and 1 sheet of contact prints.

Box 6 : 12-17

"Robbing the image bank"

Box 6 : 12-14

Research and production files, 1991.

Physical Description: 3 folders, including 3 printed color digital scans and 25 color photographic prints.

Box 6 : 15

Projections in public, San Francisco performance and exhibit file, 1994

Box 6 : 16-17

San Francisco Art Institute annual exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, 1991.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 51 color slides.

Box 9 : 10 and 40, 41

"Roman à clef"

Box 40 and 41

Research and production files

Box 41 : MS-F11-V60

Video recorded duplicated material, 1977.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V47

Video recorded mastered material, 1977.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 9 : 10

Performance and exhibit files

Box 9 : 10

Chicago Filmmakers, circa 1976

Box FB-30 : 1

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1 cloth poster with holograph announcement and 1 color photographic print, 1977

Box 6 : 18

"San Francisco 'art critic' performance, 1985-present," Information/ culture/technology, San Francisco State University performance and exhibit file, 1992.

Note

See also Corporate crime/malicious mischief: power and mediation: a fin de siécle tautology.

Box 34 : MS-F11-F03

"Secret museum," filmed material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 8-mm. film.

Box 34 : MS-F11-F04

"A sentimental story," filmed material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 dual 8 mm. film.

Box 6 : 19 - 9 : 3 and 33 : 2-4 and 44

"She loves it, she loves it not"

Box 6 : 19-23

Research and production files, circa 1992-1993.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 6 : 24

CD-ROM materials and user's guide, 1993

Box 44 : MS-F11-CD04

CD-ROM, 1993.

Physical Description: System requirements: Macintosh II or greater or compatible, color monitor, speakers.

Box 7 : 1 - 9 : 3

Performance and exhibit files

Box 7 : 1

A.D.A.: women in technology, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, 1995-1996.

Physical Description: Includes 4 color slides.

Box 7 : 2

Computer disk materials and user's guide, 1996

Box 44 : MS-F11-D01

3 1/2" computer disk, 1996.

Physical Description: System requirements: MacOS or compatible.

Box 7 : 3-4

ARS 95, International symposium on electronic art, Helsinki, 1994-1995.

Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 7 : 5

CD-ROM materials and user's guide, 1993

Box 44 : MS-F11-CD05

CD-ROM, 1993.

Physical Description: System requirements: MacOS, Windows, or compatible.

Box 7 : 6

The Art of multimedia, University Art Gallery, Cal State Hayward, 1994

Box 7 : 7

Call of the wild, Walter Phillips Gallery, 1995

Box 7 : 8-9

College Art Association 83rd annual conference, San Antonio, 1994-1995.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 7 : 10

Convergence: 5th biennial symposium of arts & technology, Connecticut College, New London, 1994-1995

Box 7 : 11

Desmitificacions, Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo, Spain, 1995

Box 7 : 12

Digital identities, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, 1994-1995

Box 33 : 2

The Digital village, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995

Box 7 : 13-16

4 Cyberconf, Banff Centre, Alberta, 1994.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 7 : 17

Gender and technology, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 1994-1995

Box 7 : 18

Hand in place: five new artists in Miami, Miami Dade Community College Centre Gallery, 1995

Box 7 : 19

Hypertext, Writing and community series, Poetry Center, San Francisco, 1994

Box 33 : 3-4

I.S.E.A. 94, International symposium on electronic art, Helsinki, 1994.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 8 : 1

The Illustrated woman: the second annual conference on feminist activism and art, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco, circa 1992-circa 1995

Box 8 : 2

Information superhighway, Downey Museum of Art, 1995

Box 8 : 3

Inter-active, Works/San Jose, 1994

Box 8 : 4-8

Miscellaneous

Box 8 : 4

1991-1994

Box 8 : 5

1995-1997

Box XOS 1

Oversize material, 1996.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 8 : 6-8

Circa 1991-circa 1997.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box FB-21 : 5

Oversize material, circa 1991-circa 1997.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 8 : 9

Multimedia playground, Exploratorium, San Francisco, 1994

Box 8 : 10-11

New voices, new visions competition, New York, 1994-1995

Box 8 : 11

CD-ROM materials and user's guide, 1995

Box 44 : MS-F11-CD06/07

CD-ROMs, 1995.

Physical Description: 2 items. System requirements: MacOS 7.0 or greater or compatible, color monitor.

Box 8 : 12

Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 1994

Box 8 : 13

Persistent dispositions, technetronic identities, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1994-1995

Box 8 : 14

Second nature, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, 1994.

Physical Description: Includes 12 color slides.

Box 8 : 15

Seduced and abandoned: the body in the virtual world, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1994

Box 8 : 16-17

S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '94, Orlando, 1994.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 8 : 18

Veered science, Huntington Beach Art Center, 1995

Box 8 : 19

Women in the directors chair, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996

Box 8 : 20-21

Leonardo (1995), 1994-1995.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 1 color photographic print.

Box 9 : 1

Multimedia graphics: the best of global hyperdesign (1996), 1996.

Physical Description: Includes 4 printed color digital scans.

Box 9 : 2

Processed lives: gender and technology in everyday life (1997), 1997

Box 9 : 3

Suffragettes to she-devils: women's liberation and beyond (1997), 1995-1997

Box FB-29 : 1

"Snatched from oblivion," scrapbook, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: Includes printed color digital scans.

Box 34 : MS-F11-F05

"Someday my prince will come," filmed material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 dual 8 mm. film.

Box 9 : 4-5

"Strata," research and production file and Video Works by UCSD Faculty and Graduate Alumni exhibit, San Diego performance and exhibit file, 1990-1992.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 38 : MS-F11-A10

Audio recorded material, Dan Daniel A.S.U.L. video class comments, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V48/51

Video recorded mastered and raw material, 1989.

Physical Description: 4 U-matic tapes.

Box 9 : 6-8 and 40

"The Thaumatrope," with John Van Wagner

Box 9 : 6

Research and production file, circa 1982

Box 40 : MS-F11-V52/54

Video recorded material, circa 1982.

Physical Description: 3 U-matic tapes.

Box 9 : 7-8

Chicago Filmmakers performance and exhibit file, 1982.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 44 color slides and 13 printed color digital scans.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V55

Video recorded material, 1982.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 33 : 5

"Touch the picture to hear a message about safer sex," printed digital scan in frame with battery-operated speaker, 1997

Box 9 : 9

"The Varieties of cryptographic experience," research and production file and S.A.I.C. Gallery, Chicago performance and exhibit file, 1979.

Physical Description: Includes 37 color slides.

Box 40 : MS-F11-V56/57

Video recorded material, circa 1979.

Physical Description: 2 U-matic tapes.

Box 41 : MS-F11-V58/59

"A Video letter from Christine Tamblyn," video recorded material, 1988

Physical Description: 2 U-matic tapes.

Box 9 : 10-11 and 41

"A Video sampler," with John Manning

Box 41 : MS-F11-V60/61

Research and production files, video recorded material, 1976.

Physical Description: 2 U-matic tapes

Box 9 : 10-11

Performance and exhibit files

Box 9 : 10

Chicago Filmmakers, circa 1977

Box 9 : 11

Electronic activity under art surveillance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, circa 1976

Box 39 and 41

"Warren writing," research and production files

Box 41 : MS-F11-V62

Video recorded mastered material, 1983.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 39 : MS-F11-V35

Work sample for National Organization of Artists' Organizations application, video recorded material, circa 1983.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 9 : 12-13

"Wishing well lounge," group show

Box 9 : 12

Research and production file, circa 1992

Box 9 : 13

Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley performance and exhibit file, 1992.

Physical Description: Includes 3 black and white photographic prints.

Box 9 : 14

"Yours truly, S.A.," with Ellen Zweig, Galerie H, Smirice, Czechoslovakia performance and exhibit file, 1991-1992

Series 2. Personal and biographical files, 1967-1998

Physical Description: 0.4 linear ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains personal correspondence, curriculum vitae, journals, diaries, and photographs. Tamblyn's 1996 curriculum vitae contains a comprehensive chronological list of her artwork, writings, and professional activities. Materials accumulated by Tamblyn documenting her professional activities are filed in Series 5. This series also contains posthumously collected materials documenting her life and art, including the multimedia CD-ROM Archival Quality originally designed by Tamblyn, but completed and programmed by John Manning and Paul Tompkins after her death in 1998.

Arrangement

This series is arranged chronologically by format.

Box 38 : MS-F11-A12

Autobiography, audio recorded material, undated.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 9 : 15-22

Correspondence, 1967-1997.

Physical Description: 8 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Missing correspondence for 1979-1991 and 1993-1996.

Box 9 : 23-24

Curriculum vitae and professional biography, 1982-1997.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 9 : 26 - 10 : 3 and 38

Journals and diaries, 1968-1992.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 38 : MS-F11-A11

Audio recorded material, 1974.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 10 : 4

Notes on personal artwork, circa 1981.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Box 10 : 5

Photographs and slides, 1968-1984.

Physical Description: 3 color photographic prints, 40 color slides, and 1 printed black and white digital scan.

Box 10 : 6-12 and 44

Posthumously collected materials

Box 10 : 6-7

Archival quality, Los Angeles Center for Performing Arts exhibit materials, 1998

Box 10 : 7

CD-ROM materials and user's guide, 1998

Box 44 : MS-F11-CD08

CD-ROM, 1998.

Physical Description: System requirements: MacOS 7.5 or greater or compatible, Quicktime 2.5 or greater, color monitor.

Box 10 : 8

Correspondence, 1998

Box 10 : 9

Memorial and tribute, 1998

Box 10 : 10

Obituaries and reflections on Tamblyn

Box 10 : 11

Selby, Judith. Cascade of lamentation, 1998

Box 10 : 12

Student stories, 1998

Series 3. Academic files, , 1973-1996

Physical Description: 1.4 linear ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series includes materials from Tamblyn's years as a student, from college through graduate school, and teacher. Materials accumulated or produced by Tamblyn during times when she taught courses while still a graduate student are filed under Subseries 3.2. For artwork and artwork-related material produced during this period see Series 1.

Arrangement

The series is organized in 2 subseries:

Subseries 3.1. Student files, 1973-1986. 1.1 linear ft.
Subseries 3.2. Teaching files, 1978-1996. 1.3 linear ft.

Subseries 3.1. Student files, 1973-1986

Physical Description: 1.1 linear ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains notebooks, article reprints, essays, papers, and other course assignments and materials. Tamblyn's student notebooks contain lecture notes in addition to detailed research notes; observations on film, video, and performance art; and ideas for individual artwork.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by the institution with which Tamblyn was affiliated.

Box 10 : 13 - 11 : 2 and 33 : 6

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Box 10 : 13

B.F.A. program application

Box 10 : 13

Portfolio, 1973.

Physical Description: 10 color slides.

Box 33 : 6

Statement on works, circa 1977

Box 10 : 14 - 11 : 2

Course materials

Box 10 : 14

Film aesthetics course, circa 1975

Box 10 : 15-16

"A Greeting card from the second circle," course paper, 1975.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 10 : 17 - 11 : 2

Notebooks, 1974-circa 1976.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 11 : 13-14

Unidentified, course materials, 1974.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 11 : 3

University of California, Berkeley Rhetoric 254, 1985-1986 course materials

Box 11 : 4-12

University of California, San Diego

Box 11 : 4-10

Course materials

Box 11 : 4

Notebook, circa 1984-circa 1985

Box 11 : 5

Performance art panel questions, circa 1984-circa 1985

Box 11 : 6

Rhetoric 121A, 1985

Box 11 : 7

Visual Arts 71, 1985

Box 11 : 8-9

Visual Arts 290, 1985.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 11 : 10

Visual Arts 298, "Images and text," 1984

Box 11 : 11

First year review paper, circa 1982-circa 1985

Box 11 : 12

M.F.A. program application and course applications, 1982

Subseries 3.2. Teaching files, 1978-1996

Physical Description: 1.3 linear feet.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains lecture notes, teaching notebooks, assignments and exams, course preparation materials, formal course proposals, awards, personnel files, and other administrative documents accumulated by Tamblyn during her career as a professor, instructor, and lecturer. The bulk of these files document her courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco State University, and Florida International University. There is a small amount of material documenting her work at Mills College and the University of California, Irvine. There are no materials documenting her courses at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the School of Visual Arts, Chicago. These files also contain material gathered by Tamblyn during her appointment as a teaching assistant for Moira Roth's 19th and 20th Century Art class at the University of California, San Diego. Job applications and correspondence relating to academic appointments are filed in Series 5.

Arrangement

Files are arranged alphabetically by the institution with which Tamblyn was affiliated.

Box 12 : 1-6 and 42

Florida International University

Box 12 : 1

Course evaluations, 1994-1996

Box 12 : 2-4

Course materials

Box 12 : 3

Art 3820, Visual thinking, course materials, 1996

Box 12 : 2

Art 4681, Electronic media arts, syllabus, circa 1994-circa 1996

Box 12 : 3

Art 4681, Time arts, course materials, 1996

Box 12 : 3

Art 4952C, Thesis I, course materials, 1996

Box 42

Examples of students' works. Definitions anthology.

Box 42 : MS-F11-V07

1994.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Box 42 : MS-F11-V08

Circa 1994-circa 1996.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Box 12 : 4

Video Art course, Telezine project for Cable-T.A.P. television series, 1994-1995

Box 12 : 5

Faculty evaluation, 1995

Box 12 : 6

Report on Time Arts course specialization and letter of resignation, 1995-1996

Box 12 : 7

Mills College, Art History 138, Contemporary art, syllabus, 1990

Box 12 : 8-9 and 42

San Francisco Art Institute

Box 42

Art 218, gallery show

Box 42 : MS-F11-V01

First gallery show, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Includes works by John Baldessari, Peter Kirby, Robert Lougo, and others.

Box 42 : MS-F11-V02

Second gallery show, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Includes work on Frida Kahlo.

Box 12 : 8

Art History 240.2, Graduate theory and criticism, course evaluations, 1988

Box 12 : 9

Theorizing multi-cultural and political art, course proposal, 1990

Box 12 : 10-27 and 42, 43

San Francisco State University

Box 12 : 10

Awards and contracts, 1989-1992

Box 12 : 11-22

Course materials

Box 12 : 11-14

Course evaluations, 1986-1992.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 12 : 15

CTEA 730-731, Intersections, syllabi, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 15

CTEA 733, Intersections, syllabus, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 16

IAC 315, New directions in arts and self and other, syllabi, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 17

IAC 320, Contemporary writing on the arts and Review and criticism of the arts, syllabi, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 43 : MS-F11-V14/20

IAC 700

Box 43 : MS-F11-V14

First class, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 Hi-8 tape.

Box 43 : MS-F11-V15/19

First through sixth classes, 1989.

Physical Description: 5 Hi-8 tapes.

Box 43 : MS-F11-V20

Sixth class, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 Hi-8 tape.

Box 12 : 18

IAC 707, Collaborative processes in the arts, syllabus, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 19

IAC 710, Art as experience and Inter-Arts theory and criticism, syllabi, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 20

IAC 720, Alternative documentary forms, syllabus, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 42 : MS-F11-V06

IAC 733, examples of students' works, circa 1986-circa 1992.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Box 12 : 21

IAC 850, course handouts, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 22

Technology, art, and culture, syllabus, 1992

Box 12 : 23

Employee materials, 1989

Box 12 : 24

Faculty evaluations, 1991-1993

Box 12 : 25

Faculty interview, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 26

Memoranda, course proposals, and reports, 1986-1991

Box 12 : 27

Statement of research and teaching interest, circa 1986-circa 1992

Box 12 : 28 - 13 : 4

School of the Art Institute of Chicago course materials

Box 12 : 28

Video extensions: performance, 1978

Box 13 : 1-2

Video production, 1978-1979.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 13 : 3

Visiting artist arrangement for John Sturgeon, 1978

Box 13 : 4

Young artists' studio video, 1978-1979

Box 13 : 5-6 and 42, 43

University of California, Berkeley

Box 42 and 43

Examples of students' works

Box 43 : MS-F11-V21

Filmed material, 1991.

Physical Description: 1 Hi-8 tape.

Box 42 : MS-F11-V03

Video recorded material, 1989-1991.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Includes works by Marjorie Franklin, Florence Yoo, Victoria Peterson, and Dan Daniel.

Box 42

Art 141, Temporal structures

Box 42 : MS-F11-V04

Examples of students' works, 1991.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Hieroglyphics collaborative class project.

Box 42 : MS-F11-V05

Final performances, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Box 13 : 5

Syllabus, 1991

Box 13 : 6

Art 204, syllabus, 1991.

Physical Description: Includes 15 color slides.

Box 13 : 7

University of California, Irvine, ArtsBridge N.E.H. grant proposal, 1996

Box 13 : 8-12

University of California, San Diego course materials

Box 13 : 8-10

VA 14, 19th and 20th century art, syllabus and notes, 1985.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 16 color slides.

Box 13 : 11-12

VA 71, Introduction to media, syllabus and notes, 1984-1985.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Series 4. Writings, 1962-1997

Physical Description: 6.7 linear ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of Tamblyn's published and unpublished works, the majority published in journals and newspapers. For articles by Tamblyn or others exclusively concerning her individual artwork, see Series 1.

Arrangement

The series is organized in 2 subseries:

Subseries 4.1. By Tamblyn, 1962-1997. 6.5 linear ft.
Subseries 4.2. About Tamblyn, 1978-1997. 0.2 linear ft.

Subseries 4.1. By Tamblyn, 1962-1997

Physical Description: 6.5 linear ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries comprises files of Tamblyn's published works, consisting of holographs, typescripts, drafts, research notes and materials, proofs and tearsheets of articles, photographic prints, reviews, exhibit catalogs, and essays. This subseries also contains numerous unpublished works by Tamblyn, including her extensive research notes and holograph drafts of her history of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her overview of Chicago video art and artists, and a biographical work on Lynn Hershman-Leeson titled Artlife. In many cases the publication in which the piece appeared is included as part of the file. Correspondence directly related to the written material is also included. Transcriptions of Tamblyn's performances are filed under the title of the work in Series 1. Material documenting Tamblyn's work as a curator, including exhibits for which she wrote catalog essays as a curator, are filed in Series 5.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged alphabetically by the title of the piece. Book and journal titles are placed in italics. Article and chapter titles are placed in quotes. Dates of publication are indicated within parentheses. Date ranges mark earliest and latest dates of individual items within the files.

Box 14 : 1

Addressing herself: female sexuality, self-representation, transformation (1994), catalog for exhibit at The Lab, San Francisco, 1994.

Box 14 : 2-3

"Against nature: Japanese art in the eighties," Art news (1989), review, 1989.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 14 : 4

"All over the place," New art examiner (1977), review of exhibit at Moming, Chicago, 1977

Box 14 : 5

"Am I in the picture/are pictures in me: Michael Smith and William Wegman's The World of photography," SF Camerawork (1987), review, 1987

Box 14 : 6

"Ambiguities and associations," Artweek (1986), review of works by John Baldessari, 1986

Box 14 : 7-10

"American landscape video: the electronic grove," High performance (1989), review, 1988-1989.

Physical Description: 4 folders, including 2 black and white photographic prints.

Box 14 : 11

"Armand Schwerner and Ellen Zweig, 'Everything you're giving me is just things you're giving me'," High performance (1987), review, 1987

Box 14 : 12

"Art historians go to the movies," Afterimage (1985), article, 1985

Box 14 : 13-14

"Backward looks at nature," Artweek (1988), review of works by Mark Thompson and Gina Lamb, 1987-1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 14 : 15

"Barbara Latham, 1947-1984," Afterimage (1984), obituary, 1984

Box 14 : 16

"Barbara Latham, 1947-1984," The Independent (1984), obituary, 1984

Box FB-27 : 7

Oversize material, 1984.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 14 : 17

"Bay Area figurative art, 1950-1965," Art news (1990), review of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit, 1990

Box 14 : 18

"Bay Area media," High performance (1990), review of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit, 1990.

Physical Description: Includes 2 black and white photographic prints.

Box 18 : 22

"Benjamin Sarao" (1976), review, 1976

Box 14 : 19

"Berkeley: freshness, surprise, and horror," Art news (1991), review of University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley exhibit, 1991

Box 14 : 20-21

"Between Charybdis and Scylla: a correspondence about alternative media (with Helen De Michiel)," Cinematograph (1991), article, 1991.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 14 : 22

"Black and white," VAD (UCSD Visual Arts Department) (1983), article, 1983

Box 15 : 1-2

"Blasted allegories," Afterimage (1988), book review, 1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 15 : 3

"Border art workshop/Taller de arte fronterica," Shift (1989), interview with Guillermo Gomez Peña and Robert Sánchez, 1989

Box 38 : MS-F11-A13

Audio recorded material, circa 1989.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 15 : 4

"Boundaries and milestones: Video culture: a critical investigation," Artweek (1987), book review, 1987

Box 15 : 5-7

"Boys club, craft hut, carnival or cyberspace?: the San Francisco art scene," High performance (1993), article, 1990-1993.

Physical Description: 3 folders, including 5 black and white photographic prints.

Box 15 : 8

"The Brain," Theory & flesh (1986), article, 1986

Box 15 : 9

"Bridging art and broadcast: American Film Institute's 'New works' series," Artweek (1989), review, 1989

Box 14 : 4

"A brief history of performance," New art examiner (1977), article, 1977

Box 38 : MS-F11-A14

Audio recorded material, circa 1977.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 15 : 10

"Carlos Loarca," Art news (1989), review, 1982-1989

Box 15 : 11

"Carrie Lederer/Five Bay Area sculptors" Art news (1989), review, 1985-1987

Box 14 : 15

"Charles Fahlen/Louis Peck," New art examiner (1979), review, 1979

Box 14 : 15

"The Chicago and vicinity show," New art examiner (1981), review, 1981

Box 15 : 12

"Chicago artists perform," New art examiner, (1979), review, 1979

Box 33 : 7

Oversize material, 1979.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 15 : 13

"Chicago performance: an annotated guide," High performance (1982), article, 1982.

Physical Description: Includes 2 photographic prints.

Box 15 : 14

"Christopher Brown," Art news (1990), review, 1980-1990

Box 15 : 15-18

Cinematograph (1988), marginality and filmmaking theme issue edited by Tamblyn, 1986-1989.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 16 : 1-3

"Computer art as conceptual art," Art journal (1990), article, 1982-1992.

Physical Description: Includes 3 color and 4 black and white photographic prints.

Box 16 : 4

"Confessions of a feminist pedagogue," Exposure (1991), article, 1990-1991

Box 16 : 5

"Co-opting the context," Artweek (1987), review of works by Tony Labat, 1987

Box 16 : 6

"Cybernetic technologies: neither utopian templates nor dystopian harbingers," Techno/logical imagination: machines in the garden of art (1989), book chapter, 1989

Box 16 : 7

"Daniel Reeves," Art news (1989), review, 1988-1989.

Physical Description: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 16 : 8

"Darryl Sapien," Art news (1988), review, 1988

Box 16 : 9

"David Anderson/Susan Schimke," Art news (1994), review, 1994

Box 16 : 10

"David Ireland," Art news (1989), review, 1989

Box 16 : 11

"Demilitarized zone in Chicago video," New art examiner (1978), review of Chicago Editing Center, 1978

Box 16 : 12

"Designer video: the A.F.I. National Video Festival," Afterimage (1984), review, 1984

Box 16 : 13

"Diamonds in the rough: Video Refuses Festival," Shift (1988), review, 1988

Box FB-27 : 7

Oversize material, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 16 : 14-15

"Digital photography: Captured Images/Volatile Memory/New Montage at S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco," CEPA journal (1989), review, 1988-1989.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 16 : 16

"Disorders of the real," High performance (1989), book review, 1989

Box 15 : 8

"Dream text," Theory & flesh (1986), article, 1986

Box 16 : 17

"Electronic art pioneers," The Independent (1993), review of works by Daniel Sandin, Robert Snyder, and John Manning, 1993

Box 16 : 18

"Endangered species," Chimaera (1992), book chapter, review of works by Lynn Hershman-Leeson, 1992

Box 16 : 5

"The eye of the beholder," Artweek (1987), review of works by Alan Rath, 1987

Box 16 : 19

"Far from the maddening commerce," Artweek (1986), review of The Gold Rush/The Odd Object exhibit at San Francisco Art Institute, 1986.

Physical Description: Includes 12 color and 1 black and white photographic prints.

Box 16 : 20

"Francesc Torres: Destiny, entropy, junk," High performance (1990), review, 1990.

Physical Description: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 16 : 21

"The Function of the arts in culture today," High performance, article, circa 1975/circa 1995

Box 16 : 22

"A Fusing of cultures," Artweek (1988), review of works by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger, 1988

Box 16 : 23

"Gift every day," The Act (1990), article, 1989-1990

Box 17 : 1

"Guerilla television or 'Get the guests'? Godard TV debut at Pacific Film Archives," Video Networks (1986), review, 1986

Box 17 : 2-4

"The Hair of the dog that bit us," New feminist criticism: art, identity, action (1994), book chapter, 1990-1994

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 17 : 5

"A History of mistakes," Artweek (1987), review of works by Jeanne Finley, 1987

Box 17 : 6-10

"Hotel California: the 1985 San Francisco International Video Festival," Afterimage (1985), review, 1981-1986.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 17 : 11

"Hung Liu: 'Reading room, 'Resident alien'," High performance (1988), review, 1987-1988

Box 17 : 12

"Hybridized art/Bay Area performance: A critical sketch," Artweek (1990), article, 1990

Box 18 : 8

"Ilona Granet," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 17 : 13

"Image processing in Chicago video art, 1970-1980," Leonardo (1991), article, 1988-1991

Box 17 : 14

"Images of manipulation," Artweek (1986), review of works by Barbara DeGenevieve, Ann Wulff, and Lutz Bacher, 1972-1988

Box 17 : 5

"Interactions with shoes," Artweek (1986), review of works by Sonya Rapoport, 1986

Box 17 : 15

"Introductions '88," Art news (1988), review of works by Enrique Chagoya, Frank Cole, and Jane Degenhardt Kutzer, 1988

Box 17 : 16

"James Lee Byars," High performance (1987), review, 1981-1987.

Physical Description: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 16 : 11

"James Grigsby," New art examiner (1978), review, 1978

Box 17 : 17

"James Morris," Art news (1990), review, 1989-1990

Box 18 : 22

"Jeffrey Deutsch," New art examiner (1976), review, 1976

Box 17 : 5

"Jim Pomeroy," (1986), catalog essay for New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1986

Box 17 : 18

"Joe Sam," Art news (1987), review, 1987

Box 17 : 19

"John Baldessari," Art news (1990), review, 1990

Box 16 : 11

"John White," New art examiner (1978), review, 1978

Box 17 : 20

"Joyan Saunders," Blackflash (1987), review, 1983-1987

Box 18 : 22

"Ken Kashian," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 18 : 22

"Laurie Anderson," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 18 : 1

"Lynn Hershman," Art news (1990), review, 1990

Box 18 : 2

"Lynn Hershman's narrative anti-narratives," Afterimage (1986), review, 1986

Box 18 : 3

"Machine dreams," Afterimage (1988), review of Digital Photography: Captured Imagery/Volatile Memory/New Montage exhibit at S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, 1988

Box 18 : 4

"Made in U.S.A.," Art News (1987), review of works at University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley, 1987

Box 18 : 5

"Manifestations of thought: the Borofsky exhibition," U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly Newsletter (1985), review, 1985

Box 18 : 6

"Mark Durant's 'Displaced persons'" (1988), essay for exhibit at X.S. Gallery, Western Nevada Community College, 1987-1988

Box FB-27 : 7

Oversize material, 1987.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 18 : 7

"Mary Lucier," High performance (1986), review, 1986

Box 18 : 22

"Mary Ahrendt and Leslie Wolfe" (1979), review, 1979

Box 18 : 8

"Mary Jane Dougherty, Shirley Federow, Helene Fine, Peg Griffith, Margaret Phillips, Ellie Specht," New art examiner (1976), review, 1976

Box 14 : 15

"Merce Cunningham," Scan (1982), review, 1982

Box 18 : 22

"Meredeth Monk," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 18 : 9-10

"Meridel Rubenstein and Gregory Mahoney," Art news (1988), review, 1987-1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box FB-27 : 7

Oversize material, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 18 : 22

"Michael McClard" New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 18 : 8

"Michael Smith," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 18 : 11

"The Mill Valley Festival," Artweek (1985), review, 1985

Box 18 : 12

"Miro Svolik," Art News (1989), review, 1989

Box 18 : 13-14

"Monitoring the vital signs: the American Film Institute Video Festival," Visions (1991), review, 1990-1991

Box FB-27 : 8

Oversize material, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 18 : 15-18

"Multiple identities," The Independent (1994), article, 1993-1994.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 33 : 8

Oversize material, circa 1993-circa 1994.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Box 18 : 19-20

"Nathan Oliveira," Art news (1988), review, 1962-1987.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 18 : 21

"New approches to feminist theory," High performance (1987), article, 1985-1987

Box 18 : 22

New art examiner, reviews, 1976-1979.

Physical Description: 9 articles.

Box 19 : 1-5

"No more nice girls: recent transgressive feminist art," C.A.A. Journal (1991), article, 1988-1990.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box FB-27 : 8

Oversize material, circa 1988-circa 1990.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 19 : 6-7

"Paul Pratchenko," Art news (1989), review, 1986-1989.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 19 : 8

"Pegan Brooke," Art news (1987), review, 1987

Box 19 : 9-10

Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death (2000), book chapter, 1991-1992

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 19 : 11

"Performance: déjà vu" (1977), essay for Performance/Midway exhibit at Midway Studios, Chicago, 1977

Box 19 : 12

"Performance: déjà vu," New art examiner (1977), review of works at Midway Studios, Chicago, 1977

Box 19 : 13-14

"The Photographer's progress," Artweek (1986), review of works by Judy Dater, 1983-1986.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 19 : 15-16

"Poses and positions," Artweek (1987), review of works by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1981-1987.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 33 : 9

Oversize material, 1983.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 19 : 17-18

Prose pieces

Box 19 : 17

In due season (1976), 1976

Box 19 : 18

One and done (1976), 1976

Box 20 : 1

"Qualifying the quotidian: artist's video and the production of social space," Resolutions: contemporary video practices (1996), book chapter, 1996

Box 20 : 2-3

"A Question of timing," Artweek (1988), review of Sexual difference: both sides of the camera exhibit at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1987-1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 20 : 4

R.F. Buckley (1995), catalog for exhibit at Florida International University Art Museum, 1995

Box 14 : 6

"Reaching out to the unknown," Artweek (1986), review of works by Dorit Cypis, Leeny Sack, Leslie Thornton, and Ellen Zweig, 1986

Box 20 : 5

"Reading between the lines," Afterimage (1987), review of Video and language: video as language exhibit at L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 1986-1987

Box 20 : 6

"Real grumblings and pseudo-science," Artweek (1986), review of works by Jim Pomeroy, 1986

Box 20 : 7-8

"Real grumblings and pseudo-science: a holo-grammatological augmentation," For a burning world is come to dance inane: essays by and about Jim Pomeroy (1993), book chapter, 1993.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 20 : 9

"Reinventing the comic book," Artweek (1987), review of works by Minette Lehmann, 1987

Box FB-27 : 7

Oversize material, 1987.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 20 : 10-12

"Remote control: the electronic transference," Processed lives: gender and technology in everyday life (1997), book chapter, 1993-1997.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 20 : 13

"Richard Horner" (1986), review, 1986

Box 18 : 5

"Riddles and evocations," Artweek (1985), review of works by Dan Ake and Gordon Holler, 1985

Box 20 : 14

"A ritual for bells," Artweek (1986), review of works by Paul Kos, 1986

Box 20 : 15-16

"The River of swill: feminist art, sexual codes, and censorship," Afterimage (1990), article, 1990.

Physical Description: 2 folders. Includes use copy of 1990 draft.

Box 35 : 1

Draft, 1990.

Access Information

Access to fragile original is restricted.

Box 20 : 17

"Robert McCauley," Art news (1988), review, 1988

Box 16 : 5

"Rupert Garcia/Christopher Lane," Art news (1988), review, 1988

Box 20 : 18

San Francisco Art Institute 111th Annual Exhibition (1992), catalog essay, 1992

Box 20 : 19

"Sebastião Salgado," Art news (1991), review, 1990-1991

Box 20 : 20

Sex with strangers: some of the things at stake in women's struggles (1986), with Lutz Bacher, book, 1986.

Box FB-21 : 6

Oversize material.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 21 : 1

"Shu Lea Cheang: the airwaves Project," High performance (1991), review, 1991

Box 21 : 2

"Sigmar Polke," Art news (1991), review, 1990-1991.

Physical Description: Includes 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 21 : 3

"Significant others: social documentary as personal portraiture in women's video of the '80s," Illuminating video: an essential guide to video art (1990), book chapter, 1988-1992.

Physical Description: Includes 4 black and white photographic prints.

Box 20 : 6

"Skip Sweeney," High performance (1986), review, 1986

Box 21 : 4

"Space invaders: a postmodern paradigm for video installations," Intermedia Arts Minnesota: Jerome Media Arts installations (1987), catalog essay, 1987

Box 21 : 5

"Spectacular visions: video art," Yesterday and tomorrow: California women artists (1989), book chapter, 1988-1989

Box 21 : 6

"Squeak Carnwath/Roseline Delisle," Art news (1989), review, 1989.

Physical Description: Includes 1 photographic print.

Box 21 : 7

"Stage presence: sculpture as used in performance," High performance (1986), review of exhibit at San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, 1986

Box 14 : 4

"Structuralist filmmakers," New art examiner (1977), review of works at Chicago Filmmakers Summer Series, 1977

Box 38 : MS-F11-A14

Audio recorded material, circa 1977.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 21 : 8

"Su-Chen Hung: 'Sweet red 1'," High performance (1987), review, 1987

Box 21 : 9-14

"Subversion and spectacle: recent trends in California performance art," New writing in arts criticism (1988) and New Langton Arts catalog (1989), article, 1980-1989.

Physical Description: 6 folders, including 5 black and white and 1 color photographs.

Box FB-27 : 8

Oversize material, 1982.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 21 : 15

"Susan Shaw," Art news (1988), review, 1988

Box 18 : 22

"Suzanne Lacy, Jared Bark, Scott Burton, John Hassell," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 22 : 1

"Sylvia Lark," Art news (1988), review, 1984-1988

Box 22 : 2

"Sylvia Lark: abstracting radiance" (1991), memorial address, 1991

Box 22 : 3

"T.V. Guide: Transmission: theory and practice for a new television aesthetics," Afterimage (1986), book review, 1985-1986

Box 22 : 4-6

"Technopop: Victor Landweber, Max Almy/Two personal commentaries on American life," Afterimage (1985), review, 1982-1985.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 18 : 22

"Tom Jaremba," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 22 : 7

"This property has been repossessed," Framework (1989), review of works by John Adams, 1989

Box 16 : 11

"Third Electronic Visualization Event (First National Bank Auditorium, Chicago)," New art examiner (1978), review, 1978

Box 22 : 8

"Three electronic art pioneers," Independent (1993), review of works by John Manning, Daniel Sandin, and Bob Snyder, 1988-1993.

Physical Description: Includes 6 color and 1 black and white photographic prints.

Box 18 : 5

"Three views of families," Artweek (1985), review, 1985

Box 22 : 9-10

"To live and die in L.A.," Afterimage (1988), review of American Film Institute Video Festival, 1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 33 : 10

"Tony Oursler/Wendy Clarke," Art notes (1981), review, 1981-1982

Box 22 : 11-17

Tour de force: the journal of the French pastry path to enlightenment (1974-1975), journal edited and published by Tamblyn, 1974-1975.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 22 : 18

"True confessions of a techno-junkie," Talkback (1995), article, 1995

Box 22 : 19 - 25 : 19

Unpublished works and publication projects

Box 22 : 19

Analysis and passion: photography engages social and political issues, review of works by Judith Crawley, Maureen McKeon, and Carrie Mae Weems, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 23 : 1 - 24 : 5

Artlife, book project on Lynn Hershman-Leeson, 1977-1992.

Physical Description: Includes 4 black and white photographic prints and 6 color slides. 16 folders.

Box 24 : 6

Bill Burke: ledgers of transience, review, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 24 : 7 - 25 : 2

Chicago video art and artists, book project, 1973-1994.

Physical Description: Includes 1 photographic print. 8 folders.

Box 33 : 11

Oversize material, 1987.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Box 25 : 3

Erotics of computer art, article, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 25 : 4

Evaluation of Michael McManus' Video and the literary imagination, book review, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 25 : 5

Festival of New Arts, San Diego, review of works by Karen Finley and Harry Kipper, 1983

Box 25 : 6-9

History of the Art Institute of Chicago, article, 1979-1982.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 38 : MS-F11-A14

Audio recorded material, circa 1977.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 25 : 10

Micro-politics and new genres in video and performance art of the 1980's, book project, 1989

Box 25 : 11

Miscellaneous typescript and holograph reviews, circa 1977

Box 25 : 12-14

New Canadian Narrative video exhibit, review, circa 1988.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 25 : 15

Richard Bolton, review, circa 1990

Box 25 : 16

Robert Snyder, review, 1984-1988

Box 25 : 17

Soft intelligence: electronic subjectivities and performance, book project, 1994

Box 25 : 18

Untitled Gallery, San Francisco exhibit, review, 1991

Box 25 : 19

Video Free America, San Francisco exhibit, review, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 26 : 1

"Useless tools: the hybrid sculpture of Alan Rath," Alan Rath (1992), catalog essay, 1991-1992

Box 26 : 2

"Van Deren Coke," Art news (1988), review, 1988

Box 26 : 3

"Victor Burgin's Office at night and Allan Sekula's Geography lesson: Canadian notes," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (1987), review, 1987

Box 26 : 4

"Video art: an historical sketch," High performance (1987), article, 1987

Box 26 : 5

"Video art: an historical sketch," Media U.S.A.: process and effect (1991), book chapter, 1991

Box 26 : 6

"Video art, ethics, and television," Ethique & television (1988), catalog essay for 4th International Video Festival, Montebeliard, France, 1988

Box 16 : 18

"Video criticism: paradigms and parasites," Media arts (1990), article, 1990

Box 26 : 7

"The Video Data Bank" (1981), program notes for the Video/Diary show at The School of the Art Institute Film Center, Chicago, 1981

Box 18 : 8

"Video roundup," New art examiner (1976), review of works by Annette Barbier, Denise Kunkel, and Catherine de Jong, 1976

Box 26 : 8-9

"Virtual memories," High performance (1991), review of Ansel Adams Center exhibit, San Francisco, 1991.

Physical Description: 2 folders, including 1 black and white photographic print.

Box 17 : 5

"Voyages of the mind," Artweek (1987), review of works by Steve Fagin, 1987

Box 26 : 10

"Whose life is it, anyway?," Afterimage (1987), review of works by Leslie Thornton, Woody Vasulka, Steve Fagin, and Ellen Zweig, 1987

Box 33 : 12

Oversize material, circa 1987.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 26 : 11

"William Allan," Art news (1987), review, 1987

Box 16 : 11

"William Wiley," New art examiner (1977), review, 1977

Box 16 : 11

"Willy Heeks," New art examiner (1979), review, 1979

Box 26 : 12

"Women recording themselves," Artweek (1988), review of Personal Histories exhibit at Through the Flower Gallery, Benicia, 1984-1988

Box 26 : 13

"You can never go home again: Jeanne Finley's Nomads at the 25 door," Video networks (1992), review, 1991-1992

Subseries 4.2. About Tamblyn, 1978-1997

Physical Description: 0.2 linear ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains clippings, reprints, announcements, reviews, and articles concerning Tamblyn's artwork in general. This subseries also contains published and videotaped interviews with Tamblyn. Published material concerning her individual artwork is filed in Series 1.

Arrangement

Files are arranged chronologically.

Box 26 : 14

1978-1981

Box 27 : 1

1982-1987

Box 27 : 2

1988-1989

Box 42 : MS-F11-V09

1990, 2 at noon, news program featuring exhibit by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Television appearance by Tamblyn.

Box 27 : 3

1991

Box 42 : MS-F11-V10

An open window, University of California Berkeley cable television series, "History and meaning of video art," 1991.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Conversation with Tamblyn, moderated by Steve Seid.

Box 27 : 4

1992-1994

Box 27 : 5

1995-1997

Box 38 : MS-F11-A15

Interview, interlocutors unidentified, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Series 5. Professional files, 1978-1997

Physical Description: 1.9 linear ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of notes, typescripts, correspondence, proposals, programs, posters, and ephemera documenting Tamblyn's employment and her professional participation in a variety of national and international activities. The bulk of these files document Tamblyn's participation in conferences, workshops, symposia, lectures, and festivals, as well as her work as an exhibit curator and juror. This series also contains files documenting her awards, grants, and funding.

For Tamblyn's curriculum vitae, see Series 2. For grant and funding documentation relating to her specific artwork, see Series 1. Materials relating to her employment as a teacher are filed in Subseries 3.2.

Arrangement

This series is arranged topically. Conference and professional meeting files, and curator and juror files are arranged chronologically by the year of the event and therein by the name of the event or sponsoring organization.

Box 27 : 6 and 37

Awards

Box 27 : 6

Awards in the Visual Arts national artists award, 1988

Box 37

Festival internacional de la imagen, Manizales, Columbia, 1997

Box 27 : 7 - 30 : 7 and 33 : 13 and 38, 41, 42

Conference and professional meeting files

Box 27 : 7

1978, Women's perspectives on performance art, panelist, Mid-America College Art Association 42nd annual conference, 1978

Box 27 : 8

1980, Women's art: speculating about the future, panelist, Women and Children First, Chicago, 1980

Box 27 : 9

1981, Teaching performance art in an art school and university setting, Mid-America College Art Association 45th annual conference, 1981

Box 27 : 10

1985, After Orwell, Sushi, San Diego, 1985

Box 33 : 13

Oversize material, 1985.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 27 : 11 and 38

1986

Box 38 : MS-F11-A16

Ex(centric) lady travellers, moderator, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, audio recorded material, 1986.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 27 : 11

Performance art and experimental theater, panelist, San Francisco State University, 1986

Box 27 : 12-15

1987

Box 27 : 12-13

Locally under-rated, nationally over-rated, panelist, Richmond Art Center, CA, 1987.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 27 : 14

New works, panelist, American Film Institute national video festival, Los Angeles, 1987

Box 27 : 15

An Overview of California women's video and performance art, presenter, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, 1987

Box 27 : 18-24

1988

Box 27 : 18

Conceptual, how you've changed, panelist, Bay Area Consortium for the Visual Arts, San Francisco, 1988

Box 27 : 19-20

Postmodern vocabulary, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute summer art writing conference, 1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 27 : 21

Re-visionary film: fantasy scenarios, moderator, Cinematheque/Cinematograph, San Francisco, 1988

Box 27 : 22-24

The Way we look, the way we see: art criticism for women in the '90s, panelist, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987-1988.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 27 : 25 - 28 : 15 and 38

1989

Box 27 : 25

Changes in women's art issues, 1970-1990, panelist, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1989

Box 27 : 26

The Climate of censorship: artists respond, panelist, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 1989.

Note

See also "Curator and juror files, 1989, Tableaux vivants" in this series for more material.

Box 27 : 27

Criticism as art (The Critic as artist/criticism as a work of art), panelist, California State University, Hayward, 1989.

Physical Description: Includes 11 black and white slides.

Box 27 : 28-29

Criticism: as rhetoric, as cult identity, as social practice, panelist, Small Press Distribution Company, Berkeley, 1988-1989.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 28 : 1

Critics' roundtable, panelist, City of Oakland, 1989

Box 28 : 2

Developing media criticism, panelist, National Alliance of Media Art Centers conference, Rochester, NY, 1989

Box 38 : MS-F11-A17

Audio recorded material, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 28 : 3

New forms of expression: video diaries from literature to electronics, panelist, New American Makers, San Francisco, 1989

Box 28 : 4

Other disciplines, other forms, moderator, San Francisco Art Institute summer art writing conference, 1989

Box 28 : 5

Plugging into the matrix, technology and art in a virtual society, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, 1989

Box 28 : 6-9

Sexual representation and feminist transgression in film, video, and photography, moderator, Society for Photographic Education national conference, 1985-1989.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box FB-27 : 9

Oversize material, 1986.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 28 : 10-11

The Spiritual in California art: pro and con, panelist, College Art Association 77th annual meeting, San Francisco, 1989.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 28 : 12-14

The Technological imagination: machines in the garden of art, panelist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1989-1990.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box XOS 1

Oversize material, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 38

The Video art potential, panelist, Women's Caucus for Art national conference, San Francisco, 1989

Box 38 : MS-F11-A18

Audio recorded material, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 cassette.

Box 28 : 15

The Woman question: taking positions/taking positions apart, panelist, College Art Association national conference, San Francisco, 1988-1989

Box 28 : 16-22

1990

Box 28 : 16

Against the law, panelist, Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Monterey, CA, 1990

Box 28 : 17

Another way of seeing: encounters with contemporary art, presenter, California State University, Fresno, 1989-1990

Box 28 : 18

The Collective "I," panelist, San Francisco State University, 1990

Box FB-27 : 9

Oversize material, 1990.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 28 : 19-20

Feminist pedagogy: the double voice, panelist, Society for Photographic Education national conference, 1989-1990.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 28 : 21

Present and future: addressing the current arts emergency and setting the agenda for the '90s, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute, 1990

Box FB-27 : 9

Oversize material, 1990.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 28 : 22

Surviving as an artist, panelist, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, 1990

Box FB-27 : 9

Oversize material, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 29 : 1-7 and 38

1991

Box 29 : 1

Art and the forbidden: images of female aggression, moderator, School of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, 1991

Box 38 : MS-F11-A19/20

Audio recorded material, 1991.

Physical Description: 2 cassettes.

Box 29 : 2

Critical responsibility, panelist, San Francisco Art Dealers' Association seminar series, San Francisco, 1991

Box 29 : 3-4

Interdisciplinary teaching in the arts, presenter, Arizona State University, Phoenix, 1991-1992

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 29 : 5

On becoming a performance artist, panelist, Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia, 1991

Box 29 : 6

Rewriting the canon, panelist, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, 1991

Box 38 : MS-F11-A21/22

Audio recorded material, 1991.

Physical Description: 2 cassettes.

Box 29 : 7

Women in contemporary photography, lecturer, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1991

Box 29 : 8-14

1992

Box 29 : 8

The Camcorder revolution: utilizing low-end video, panelist, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, 1992

Box 29 : 9-11

Female aggression: crimes against patriarchy, moderator, Feminism, activism, and art conference, San Francisco, 1992.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 29 : 12

Media map, panelist, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1992

Box 29 : 13-14

Postmodernism in the classroom, panelist, Society for Photographic Education national conference, 1991-1992.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 29 : 15-18 and 33 :14

1993

Box 29 : 15-16

Body doubles: society, sexuality, and the visual image, panelist, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1993.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 29 : 17-18

Living with a legacy: regional history and cultural heritage, panelist, College Art Association 81st annual conference, Seattle, 1993.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 33 : 14

Theories of aesthetics and criticism of art in the age of electronic media, panelist, San Francisco Art Institute, 1993

Box 29 : 19-20

1994

Box 29 : 19

Altered egos, constructed bios, and other fictions, panelist, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1994

Box 29 : 20

Nintendo killed the video star, panelist, Australian International Video Art Symposium, Sydney, 1994

Box 29 : 21-27

1995

Box 29 : 21

Arte por computadora, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Managua, Nicaragua, 1995

Box 29 : 22

Dance, myth, and ritual in the Americas, panelist, Congress on Research in Dance, Miami, 1995

Box 29 : 23

Digital identities, technologies of meaning, panelist, Society for Photographic Education 32nd national conference, Atlanta, GA, 1995

Box 29 : 24

Duchamp's legacy (Duchamp's leg/Duchamp: beyond modernism exhibit), lecturer, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1995.

Physical Description: Includes 3 color photographic prints.

Box 29 : 25

Exposicion de arte, presenter, Casa de Los Leones, Granada, Nicaragua, 1995

Box 29 : 26-27

Joseph Beuys: drawings, objects, prints, lecturer and moderator, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1995.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 30 : 1-2

1996

Box 30 : 1

Critical studies symposium #3, panelist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, 1996

Box 30 : 2

Mechanical brides, lecturer, International Center for Digital Arts, San Francisco, 1996

Box 30 : 3

1997

Box 30 : 3

Electronic arts and the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), panelist, College Art Association 85th annual conference, New York, 1997

Box 30 : 4-7 and 41, 42

Undated

Box 30 : 4

Film in the arena of art, panelist, San Francisco, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 30 : 5

Love and hate: Joanna Frueh mouthpiece, panelist, The Lab, San Francisco, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 41 : MS-F11-V63

Meridal Rubinstein video recorded class presentation, lecturer, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Box 30 : 6-7

Miscellaneous lecture and presentation notes, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 42 : MS-F11-V11

Misha Berson video recorded class presentation, lecturer, San Francisco State University, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Scope and Content Note

Presentation features Chained reactions, Pathetic fallacy, and discussion of works by over 35 artists.

Box 30 : 8 - 31 : 2 and 42

Curator and juror files

Box 30 : 8

1985, Chicago imagist video, curator, The Eye Gallery, San Francisco, 1985

Box 30 : 9

1986, mapping one place onto another, curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 1986

Box 30 : 10-11

1987

Box 30 : 10

Experiments in form, juror, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1987

Box 30 : 11 and 17 : 21

The Lively arts: video and performance (2 part series), curator, The Fresno Arts Center and Museum, 1987

Box 30 : 12-16

1988

Box 30 : 12

Beyond the camera obscura, curator (with David Bedell), San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 1988

Box 30 : 13-14

Headlands Center for the Arts national residency program, juror, Sausalito, California, 1988.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 30 : 15-16

Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art video award, juror, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1988

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 33 : 15

Western States Regional Media N.E.A. Fellowhips, Rocky Mountain Media Center, Boulder, Colorado, 1988

Box 30 : 17-31 and 42

1989

Box 30 : 17-19

Intercultural film/video fellowship national nominating committee, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, 1988-1989.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 30 : 20

Intersection for the Arts exhibit, San Francisco, juror, 1989

Box 30 : 21-25

Palo Alto film and video festival, juror, California, 1987-1989.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 30 : 26-31

Tableaux vivants, curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 1989-1990.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Note

See also 1989 Climate of censorship conference files for more materials.

Box 42 : MS-F11-V12

Billie Lynn protest and rally to boycott the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Box 30 : 32

1991, annual photography show, juror, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1991

Box 30 : 33-34

1994

Box 30 : 33

Public Art Video Installation Commission for St. Rose of Lima Park, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, juror, Sacramento, 1994

Box 30 : 34

"A Simultaneous view of history: an examination of the landscape of history," Leonardo, reviewer, 1994

Box 30 : 35 - 31 : 1

1995

Box 30 : 35

Cultural democracy: politics, identity, new media, reviewer, State University of New York Press, 1995

Box 30 : 36-37

5 Cyberconf, juror, Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia de Telefonica, Madrid, 1995-1996.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 31 : 1

Video annuale, juror, L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 1995

Box 31 : 2

1996, California State University, Fullerton Grand Central Art Center project, participant, Santa Ana, California, 1996

Box 31 : 3-4

Employment files

Box 31 : 3

Correspondence, 1993

Box 31 : 4

Letters of recommendation, 1985-1996

Box 31 : 5-12

Exhibit, performance, and conference proposals

Box 31 : 5

Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit, Chicago, 1994

Box 31 : 6

The Business of culture: issues of control, questions of influence, Artlink Inc. exhibit, 1991

Box 31 : 7

Changing the subject, San Francisco Art Institute exhibit, 1992

Box 31 : 8

Computer art: theoretical perspectives panel, S.I.G.G.R.A.P.H. '91, 1991

Box 31 : 9

Electronic media arts symposium, 1994

Box 31 : 10

Franklin Furnace emerging artists performance and installation program, 1992

Box 31 : 11

New Vision festival, Tigertail Productions, 1996

Box 31 : 12

Symposium on lesbian and gay media, Frameline, 1984

Box 31 : 13

Fellowship application for California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 31 : 14

Grant proposal, South Florida Cultural Consortium, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 33 : 16

Residency material, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, 1994

Box FB-28 : 4

Oversize material, 1994.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Series 6. Research files, ca. 1976-1997

Physical Description: 0.7 linear ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains a wide-ranging collection of brochures, clippings, flyers, press releases, and other printed materials collected by Tamblyn, documenting various conferences, colloquia, and workshop relating to the arts. This series also contains materials documenting performances, exhibits, and artists. This subseries is particularly strong in materials from the San Francisco Bay area from the 1990s. Some of these materials are related to Tamblyn's long-term interests in specific art works, artists, or issues affecting the art community. In particular, she collected material documenting censorship in the arts in 1990, especially the debate over works by Robert Mapplethorpe. This series also contains videorecordings and photographic prints.

For material collected by Tamblyn for conferences, workshops, symposia, lectures, and festivals that she participated in, see Series 5.

Arrangement

Files are arranged topically.

Box 31 : 15-18, 33 : 17 and 43

Artist and topical materials

Box FB-27 : 10

Censorship issues, 1990.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Box 31 : 15

Greengold, Jane, 1983-1986

Box 33 : 17

Halley, Peter, 1987

Box 31 : 16

Jacobi, Kathryn, 1986-1992.

Physical Description: Includes 3 black and white photographic prints.

Box 33 : 18

Lehmann, Minette, 1983-1992

Box FB-27 : 10

Oversize material, circa 1983-circa 1992.

Physical Description: 1 item

Box 43 : MS-F11-V23

Tambyln and Minette Lehmann at University of California, Berkeley, circa 1983-circa 1992.

Physical Description: 1 Hi-8 tape.

Box 31 : 17

Mapplethorpe, Robert, 1990

Box 33 : 17

Prince, Richard, 1987

Box 33 : 17

Salle, David, 1987

Box 31 : 18

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1991-1992

Box 31 : 19 - 32 : 5

Conference, workshops, and lecture materials

Box 31 : 19

Australian 7th International Video Festival, 1992

Box 31 : 20-21

Cinamatheque celebrates 25 years, San Francisco, 1987.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 31 : 22

College Art Association 78th annual conference, New York, 1990

Box 31 : 23

I.S.E.A. 95, International symposium on electronic art, Montreal, 1995

Box 32 : 1

The Politics of spectacle, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Box 32 : 1

San Francisco Art Institute lecture series, 1992

Box 32 : 2

Solnit landscape lecture, circa 1975-circa 1995

Box 32 : 3

Video Festival of Navarre, Pamplona, 1997

Box 32 : 4-5

Women's Caucus for Art

Box 32 : 4

Annual conference, Washington, D.C., 1979

Box 32 : 5

Beyond the boundaries conference, Seattle, 1992

Box 32 : 6-18, 33 : 19 and 41, 43

Exhibit materials

Box 32 : 6

Berkeley Art Center, 1992

Box 32 : 7

California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1993

Box 32 : 8

Capp St. Project, San Francisco, 1985-1992

Box 32 : 9

Cinematheque, San Francisco, 1991-1992

Box 32 : 10

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, 1991

Box 32 : 11

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1991

Box 32 : 12

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 1992

Box 32 : 13

The Lab, San Francisco, 1991-1992

Box 32 : 14

L.A.C.E., 1991-1992

Box 32 : 15

The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, 1991

Box 32 : 16-31, 33 : 19 and 41, 43

Miscellaneous

Box 33 : 19

Circa1976-1982

Box 32 : 16

1991-1992

Box 41 and 43

Undated

Box 43 : MS-F11-V13

Unidentified, Love postmodern style, video recorded material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 VHS tape.

Box 41 : MS-F11-V67

Sampler for School of Visual Arts, video recorded material, circa 1975-circa 1995.

Physical Description: 1 U-matic tape.

Scope and Content Note

Includes works by Bob Snyder, Bob Roesler, John Manning, Janice Tanaka, Ric Horner, and Barbara Latham.

Box 32 : 17

Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, 1989

Box 32 : 18

New Langton Arts, 1991-1992

Box 32 : 19

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Bad girls exhibition catalog, 1994

Box 32 : 20

Oakland Museum, 1991-1992

Box 32 : 21

Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, 1991-1992

Box 32 : 22

Richmond Art Center, 1992

Box 32 : 23

S.F. Camerawork, 1992

Box 32 : 24

San Francisco Art Institute, 1991-1992

Box 32 : 25

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 1992

Box 32 : 26

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992

Box 32 : 27

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 1992

Box 32 : 28

Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, 1992

Box 32 : 29

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1992

Box 32 : 30

University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 1991

Box 32 : 31

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., 1992

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