Mary Lucier: Women Artists in New Media

“We were all part of an electronic revolution in music, video, performance and art, where tools and electronic controls returned to the hands of the art makers and audience.” Multimedia artist Liz Phillips stated in her essay about her friendship with Shigeko Kubota in the Viva Video!: The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota catalog (2021). Since they met in 1965, Mary Lucier became Kubota’s earliest friend who collaborated with her both in Sonic Arts Union and Red White Yellow & Black before choosing video as her medium. Joan Logue made a video portrait of Kubota in California in 1976 before moving to New York and becoming Kubota’s neighbor. This informal panel will showcase some of the rarely seen photographs and videos while illuminating the art and person of Shigeko Kubota from multiple facets. The panel is co-organized by the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation and Fergus McCaffrey