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“Aaaghhh! No! I’m never going to talk about that piece! No… I will… I just need to shout a little bit. Aarrrgh! ‘Three Transitions’!” —Peter Campus

Happy Birthday to Peter Campus, born May 19, 1937, in New York, NY. Campus is a pioneering video and new-media artist, who has influenced generations of artists that have followed, and has impacted the popular understanding of the sometimes tenuous relationship between video and the reality it purports to reflect. Three Transitions (1973) is perhaps his most widely influential work, showing Campus’ vision as an artist and his early experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. And it is that popularity and influence (one can readily find countless copies and homages – both acknowledged and not – online) that apparently makes Campus ill-disposed to talk about it. After all, he’s done a lot more great work than that!

Campus is now featured in a major survey exhibition at the Bronx Museum, peter campus: video ergo sum, through July 22, 2019, and was also recently featured in solo exhibitions at Cristin Tierney and as part of the Times Square Midnight Moment video series. In 2014, SFMoMA visited him at his home in East Patchogue, New York on Long Island, where he eventually gave in to talking about Three Transitions.

You can catch the original video here.

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