Wipe Cycle

Frank Gillette, Ira Schneider · 1969/2017

This is Wipe Cycle, by Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider, first shown in nineteen sixty-nine — nine monitors, a live television broadcast, a surveillance camera and a switcher that feeds your own image back to you on a delay. Stand in front of it and you appear on the wall several seconds later, mixed in with the broadcast.

Medium Two standard-definition videos (black and white, silent; 30 min.); sound; live television broadcast; surveillance camera; nine cathode-ray tube monitors; custom-made video switcher, micro-controllers, and software; shelving · Dimensions 94 1/2 × 82 11/16 × 29 9/16" (240 × 210 × 75 cm) · Credit Acquired through the generosity of Maja Oeri

Hanging beside it in Gallery 414: 25 Windows, a Portrait/Project for Bonwit Teller, Television Delivers People