"Howard Wise, [was] an art patron and a former dealer who gave important early support to the technology in art movement in the United States... In 1964 his Howard Wise Gallery in Manhattan presented On the Move, the first survey in the United States of contemporary kinetic art. The gallery's exhibition Lights in Orbit three years later was the first comprehensive survey in this country of kinetic light art. Mr. Wise also organized the first exhibition of the budding video art movement, TV as a Creative Medium, in 1969, and two years later he founded , a nonprofit organization that distributes artists' videotapes and provides editing and post-production facilities for independent videomakers."
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. "Howard Wise, 86, Dealer Who Helped Technology in Art," in New York Times, September 8, 1989.
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Howard Wise
(Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1903 - New York, September 8, 1989) was an American art dealer and supporter of video as art. From 1960 to 1970, the Howard Wise Gallery on 57th Street in New York was a locus for kinetic art and multimedia works that explored the nexus of art and technology.
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