Peer Bode: Signal into Memory

Video Art Exhibition

February 6 – June 6,  2026

Gallery Hours:

Weds. – Fri.: 11am – 6pm

Saturday: 12 – 4pm

Opening Reception: Friday, February 6, 6-9 pm

Curator Talk: Saturday, May 30, 2-3 pm

Closing Party: June 5, 6-9 pm

In a career spanning over five decades, video artist Peer Bode has created an extensive body of work that investigates electronic media events, active perception systems and the cultural impact of media tools and technologies. His earliest works were made at the Experimental Television Center, where he worked with video processing tools and innovative engineers to expand upon the possibilities of the emerging field of video. This exhibition will feature an extended selection of Bode’s “Process Tapes”, many of which were recorded as real time events at the Experimental Television Center between 1975-83. Signal into Memory traces the origins of Bode’s inquiry into the electronic signal as both a source and a substance in the video field, decoding the nature of video art and its ongoing impact as an interactive social system. 

Signal into Memory includes projections and installations of recently digitized videotapes from the artist’s archive which have never been shown publicly, as well as prints that reflect his work with video in material form. Throughout the exhibition there will be a series of events featuring video artists and toolmakers as part of the VSW Salon. 

Signal into Memory is curated by Tara Nelson and Nilson Carroll of Visual Studies Workshop, where Bode’s tapes have been preserved.

About the artist

Video artist Peer Bode (pronounced “Pear BOHdah”) has been working with video, performance, sound and multiple forms of printed media for over five decades. Bode is a graduate of Binghamton University’s Cinema Department, and has studied with Larry Gottheim, Nicholas Ray, Ken Jacobs and Peter Kubelka, and later with Woody and Steina Vasulka, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad and Hollis Frampton at SUNY Buffalo’s Media Study Program. Bode worked at the Experimental Television Center (ETC), which his lifelong mentor and friend Ralph Hocking established in Binghamton in 1969. At the ETC, Bode made his foundational early works while assisting and collaborating with the video artist and engineer David Jones, whose “Jones Frame Buffer” became a signature processor within Bode’s oeuvre.