Project Files
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Ryan, Paul, 1943-
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- Paul Ryan papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' Hidden Collections grant program.
- Extent
- 6.5 Linear feet (Boxes 11-17, 20, OV 21-22, 24, RD 26)
- Date
- 1968-2008
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.ryanpaul, Series 5
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Paul Ryan papers, 1931-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Documentation is filed alphabetically under a project title where one exists. Projects for which only a proposal or outline exists are filed under the heading of proposals. Many of the projects and proposals represented in this series are related to one another and contain related documentation. Cross-references are supplied in the container listing to point researchers to related documentation. See also series 6, Teaching Files, for documentation of educational programs developed as an outgrowth of the Earthscore Notational System; series 4, Organizational Records, for records relating to organizations that supported Ryan's video work; and series 3, Writings, for related theoretical writings closely related to the projects in this series. Series is arranged as 3 subseries: 5.1: Environmental Projects 5.2: Threeing Projects 5.3: Other Projects
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents
- This series includes documentation of projects Ryan carried out or participated in, including video productions, performances, conferences, art projects, and publications. Many of the projects documented in this series reflect Ryan's explorations of the use of video to monitor and interpret two seemingly different subjects, environmental change and human behavior in relationships, explored through a routine invented by Ryan called triadic behavior, or threeing. Other projects document early explorations of the use of video, mainly "Video Wake for my Father," a performance for video that saw many iterations, including a private performance, a public performance, an edited video program, and a published script. The series includes 47 videocassettes (U-Matic) out of the hundreds of video recordings created by Ryan. A printout of the database Ryan kept of his video recordings is available in series 5.3: Other Projects, under the heading "Video Preservation." Tape numbers listed in the container list for this series refer to numbers assigned in that database and on the tapes themselves. See detailed descriptions below for more information about the content of the series.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers and archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513299790-1503513299843-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0