Frank Gillette
NYC, USA
Artist Interview ↗Website ↗Wikipedia ↗
2 recordings / 53 times speaking / 11 mentions / 1 exhibition
About this artist
Frank Gillette (born in 1941) is an American video and installation artist. Interested in the empirical observation of natural phenomena, his early work integrated the viewer's image with prerecorded information. He has been described as a "pioneer in video research [...] with an almost scientific attention for taxonomies and descriptions of ecological systems and environments". His seminal work Wipe Cycle –co-produced with Ira Schneider in 1968– is considered one of the first video installations in art history. Gillette and Schneider exhibited this early "sculptural video installation" in TV as a Creative Medium, the first show in the United States devoted to Video Art. In October 1969, Frank Gillette and Michael Shamberg founded the Raindance Corporation, a "media think-tank [...] that embraced video as an alternative form of cultural communication.
Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Gillette”, text available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Retrieved 24 September 2026.
Exhibitions and collaborations
- Techspressionism: Digital & Beyond (Southampton Arts Center)
Frank Gillette, Post-Apocalypse 48 . Digital collage, 44x64in.
Frank Gillette, Post-Apocalypse 12 . Digital collage, 44x64in.
Frank Gillette, Preludes 01 , Digital collage, 44x64in.
Exhibition artist profile ↗
From the exhibition pages on techspressionism.com. "Watch on YouTube" opens the exhibition reel at this artist's entry (a separate video from the archive recordings, so it opens on YouTube itself).
Speaking in the archive
- Salon 44 · May 25, 2022WATCH13:27
East End Tech · spoke 4 times
“Yes, good everyone. Pull up the images. And I'm not a member of the DigiDigirati, not yet anyway.” - Interview 24 · February 28, 2022WATCH00:32
Frank Gillette · spoke 49 times
“The work that is being exhibited is from two series. One is entitled Prelude, and the other one is entitled...”
Newest first. WATCH opens that recording here in the archive, at the turn quoted.
Mentioned by others
- “… who is founder of the Digital art programs at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University and Frank Gillette, a seminal video artist in the 1960s, whose work was recently included in signals.”WATCH09:21
Colin Goldberg · Salon 94 · May 1, 2025 - “I think the last one might have been Frank Gillette.”WATCH1:31:06
Colin Goldberg · Salon 78 · January 4, 2024 - “Her husband is also very storied artist, Frank Gillette, who worked with Martian clue, and is one of the people that you'll read about in books about video art, working with video art since the 1960s.”WATCH30:19
Colin Goldberg · Salon 77 · December 7, 2023
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- “Notable contemporary artists featured in the exhibition, as defined by Wikipedia, included Victor Acevedo, Suzanne Anker, Frank Gillette, Clive Holden, Patrick Lichty, Chalda Maloff, Paul D.”WATCH05:57
Colin Goldberg · Roundtable 1 · October 3, 2022 - “Then we have artist text from Suzanne Anker, Frank Gillette, myself, Patrick.”WATCH1:26:35
Colin Goldberg · Salon 46 · June 22, 2022 - “We heard about the first word of video today with Frank Gillette mentioning video.”WATCH48:46
Steve Miller · Salon 44 · May 25, 2022 - “Next, we have a colleague, an old friend, and a fellow traveler on this technology journey, Frank Gillette.”WATCH13:17
Steve Miller · Salon 44 · May 25, 2022 - “We now have a very huge wall that you can see from the beginning when you come in this room by Frank Gillette.”WATCH2:00:28
Roz Dimon · Salon 42 · April 27, 2022 - “And I thought, you know, how cool it would be to include, along with Frank Gillette, who's in his 80s, and a video artist as well, an 18-year-old video artist.”WATCH19:58
Colin Goldberg · Salon 42 · April 27, 2022 - “I'm here with Frank Gillette, who is a pioneer of digital art and who is one of the participants in the show.”WATCH00:15
Helen A. Harrison · Interview 24 · February 28, 2022 - “And both her and her husband, Frank Gillette, are going to be in both of the shows, upcoming shows.”WATCH1:14:16
Deann Stein Hasinoff · Salon 25 · August 31, 2021
Passages where a speaker names them in full (11 in all, newest first). Only passages with an identified speaker are shown.