SIM Archive

SIM has been collecting documentation since its founding in 1969. We have hard drives, milk crates and acid-free boxes brimming with magic moments and mundane detritus. It tells a fascinating story of the Studio for Interrelated Media and the many ideas, artworks, experiments and humans that have emerged and transformed over the years.

Check out the SIM Timeline for some SIM history selections – http://www.massart.edu/simtimeline

Below are the many locations where you can find SIM archival materials:

If you are doing research on the history of experimental art education, are an alum and want to donate any materials, or are just curious – please let us know!

Here are some interesting external links we have come across:

Round and About the Guggenheim Audio Interview – “In the first broadcast of Round and About the Guggenheim, Mimi Poser discusses Yellow Sound, a theatrical event based on a script written by Vasily Kandinsky. She is joined by Guggenheim curator Louise Svendsen and Harris Barron, coproducer and director of Yellow Sound.”
https://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/yellow-sound-1972

WGBH Openvault Video Archive
Rockefeller Artists in Television; Zone in Three Parts;
https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog?f%5Baccess%5D%5B%5D=Available+Online&f%5Bsubjects%5D%5B%5D=Barron%2C+Ros

Donald Burgy: Participating in the Universe, Art Forum 1974
https://www.artforum.com/print/197407/donald-burgy-participating-in-the-universe-37348

Alex Grey’s Human Race performance in the Overland Theater, 1982
https://www.alexgrey.com/art/performances/human-race

OLD BUT STILL AVAILABLE –  SIM studio Flickr photostream (we are trying to archive all these images to a new archive but haven’t finished that project yet!)