- Jud Yalkut
Jud Yakult is a pioneer in
video art . In the 1970s he began experimenting withvideo in New York and influenced a number of other artists.Life
Born in
New York City in 1938, he graduated from the High School of Music and Art with a diploma in Art, and attendedThe City College of New York andMcGill University inMontreal ,Canada . Member of theUSCO media art collective since 1965. He taught film and video at the School of Visual Arts, theCity University of New York , andNew York University . A resident of theDayton area since 1973, he was Assistant Professor of Art atWright State University (where he founded the film and video area of the Art Department), and taught atSinclair Community College in Dayton (as Artist-in-Residence through an Ohio Arts Council Grant), and at Xavier University in Cincinnati.Awards
A six-time recipient of Individual Artist Fellowships from the
Ohio Arts Council (five in Media, and one in Arts Criticism), as well as three OAC Artist’s Project grants, he was also awarded a Writing-in-Media grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for his book-length manuscript "Electronic Zen", and a Master Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District. He was recipient of a One-Man Film/Video Retrospective, "Dream Reels: VideoFilms and Environments by Jud Yalkut" at theWhitney Museum of American Art in New York City from November 4-December 3, 2000. His one-man video installation exhibition, "Videoscapes by Jud Yalkut", runs at theMiami University Art Museum April 21 -June 19 ,2002 .External links/references
* [http://www.hamsadesign.com/vidfilm/JudYalkut.html biographical background]
* [http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/people/pview.php3?id=26&page=1 Jud Yalkut: a video beachcomber]
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