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 in collaboration with engineer David Jones, whose “Jones Frame Buffer” became a signature processor within Bode’s oeuvre. This exhibition will feature an expanded 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 features projections and installations of recently digitized videotapes from the artists’ archive which have never been shown publicly. Curated by Tara Nelson and Nilson Carroll of Visual Studies Workshop, where Bode’s tapes have been preserved.