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Beryl Korot (born September 17, 1945) is an American visual artist. Her practice includes video installation, weaving, paper tapestries, digital embroidery, and drawings. Korot is a pioneer of video art, and of multiple channel work in particular.
Korot was the cofounder and coeditor of Radical Software (1970–74), the first publication to discuss the technical and formal possibilities of the new medium of video, and she coedited Video Art: An Anthology (1976).
Recognized since the early 1970s as a pioneer of video art and multi-channel works in particular, Beryl Korot creates video installations that explore the structural and conceptual links between weaving techniques and video editing.
Beryl Korot is an internationally known video artist who has created multimonitor installations which have been shown all over the world. She is best known for her multiple channel works Dachau 1974 and Text and Commentary, 1977, and her two collaborations with her husband, composer Steve Reich, The Cave and Three Tales.
Beryl Korot is a pioneer of video art, and of multiple channel work in particular. By applying specific structures inherent to loom programming to the programming of multiple channels she brought the ancient and modern worlds of technology into conversation.
Beryl Korot. Text and Commentary. 1976-77. Five-channel standard-definition video (black and white, sound; 30 min.), weavings, drawings, and pictographic video notations.
Nov 13, 2017 · Beryl Korot. Text and Commentary. 1976-77. Exhibition Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989. Nov 13, 2017–Apr 8, 2018. MoMA.
