Peter d’Agostino: World Wide Walks / SFBay
July 30 - September 19, 2026
The work can be previewed online at this link: https://peterdagostino.com/SFBay.html
World-Wide-Walks / SFBAY (2014/2021) is a video installation consisting of three walks - at the base of Sutro Tower, on the Bay Bridge, in the San Francisco cloud forest- juxtaposed with views overlooking the bay from the Oakland / Berkeley Hills. Recorded during the week of June 2014, at the summer solstice, the video incorporates images of shifting times, places and of environmental sounds composed by Reese Williams.
Background
From the 1970s to the present, Peter d’Agostino has created significant work produced and exhibited internationally. Two place-oriented projects, conceived in the San Francisco Bay Area are: World-Wide-Walks, begun in San Francisco as The Walks Series, 1973-74; and Comings & Goings, 1974 initiated on Angel Island.
World-Wide-Walks are video documentation- performances spanning six continents for over five decades exhibited as installations, video-web and 360 VR projects. World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky is a series that includes: MEXICO (2007) performed at natural and cultural sites throughout Mexico; CORDOBA (2001) performed under the ceilings of Cordoba's major architectural landmarks: Great Mosque, Alcazar, Synagogue.
The World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water series include: ICE (2014) performed along the edge of glaciers - at the top and bottom of the globe in Iceland, Alaska and Argentina to witness signs of global warming. CAPES (2021) was performed in and around South Africa’s major ecological and historical sites: Cape Town, Robben Island Prison, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Agulhas - the geographic divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southern tip of the African continent.
Subsequent to filming Coming & Going: Angel Island (1974) this project evolved into a performance event commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s presentation of “America, 1976” a Bicentennial exhibition. A series of ‘comings & goings’ followed in 1977-79: PARIS (Metro), Washington (METRO), and San Francisco (BART). The BART event encompasses the everyday experiences of Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters – buying tickets, waiting on platforms, boarding and exiting trains.Within this context several layers of information related to BART are portrayed. They include: scenes from surveillance cameras and the master control room displaying the progress of the trains throughout the system. Produced in 1978 as a performance event, with support from SFMOMA and the Floating Museum, Coming & Going: San Francisco (BART) is a six channel video installation currently on view in the “Collecting a Moment” exhibition, Gallery of California Art, Oakland Museum of California, July 2026-27.
The exhibition Peter d’Agostino: World-Wide-Walks / SFBAY on view at the Transmission Gallery, July 30 – September 19, 2026. See the exhibition during current open hours, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12 - 5pm or by appointment.
Exhibition catalogues as well as a selection of books related to the artist’s work will also be available in the gallery, including: World-Wide-Walks / Peter d’Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (2019), Peter d’Agostino:
COLD/HOT - Walks, Wars & Climate Change (2019), Peter d'Agostino: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / 1973-2012
(2012), Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity & Intervention, 1978- 1999 (1999), Peter d'Agostino: Between Earth & Sky / MX (2007), TRACES: a multimedia installation of the Atomic Age (1995), TRANSMISSION: theory and practice for a new television aesthetics (1985), The Un/Necessary IMAGE (1982), Comings and Goings (1982), TeleGuide-Including Proposal for QUBE (1980), Photography and Language (1976).
Peter d'Agostino's pioneering video, photography, and new media projects have been exhibited internationally for over five decades. His work was in the Biennials of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gwangju, South Korea; Whitney Museum, New York; and is in the collections of the The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art MuseumPacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; National Gallery of Canada; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; among others.
Born in New York City, 1945, d’Agostino lived in San Francisco from 1968-77; his works of the 1970s were in the following survey exhibitions: Space-Time-Sound: Conceptual Art in the San Francisco Bay Area- the 1970s (1979), California Video (2008), Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 (2011-12), State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 (2011-14). He divides his time between the Bay Area and Philadelphia, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. A complete list of his projects is at peterdagostino.com.
More about Peter d'Agostino
Background
From the 1970s to the present, Peter d’Agostino has created significant work produced and exhibited internationally. Two place-oriented projects, conceived in the San Francisco Bay Area are: World-Wide-Walks, begun in San Francisco as The Walks Series, 1973-74; and Comings & Goings, 1974 initiated on Angel Island.
World-Wide-Walks are video documentation- performances spanning six continents for over five decades exhibited as installations, video-web and 360 VR projects. World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky is a series that includes: MEXICO (2007) performed at natural and cultural sites throughout Mexico; CORDOBA (2001) performed under the ceilings of Cordoba's major architectural landmarks: Great Mosque, Alcazar, Synagogue.
The World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water series include: ICE (2014) performed along the edge of glaciers - at the top and bottom of the globe in Iceland, Alaska and Argentina to witness signs of global warming. CAPES (2021) was performed in and around South Africa’s major ecological and historical sites: Cape Town, Robben Island Prison, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Agulhas - the geographic divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southern tip of the African continent.
Subsequent to filming Coming & Going: Angel Island (1974) this project evolved into a performance event commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s presentation of “America, 1976” a Bicentennial exhibition. A series of ‘comings & goings’ followed in 1977-79: PARIS (Metro), Washington (METRO), and San Francisco (BART). The BART event encompasses the everyday experiences of Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters – buying tickets, waiting on platforms, boarding and exiting trains.Within this context several layers of information related to BART are portrayed. They include: scenes from surveillance cameras and the master control room displaying the progress of the trains throughout the system. Produced in 1978 as a performance event, with support from SFMOMA and the Floating Museum, Coming & Going: San Francisco (BART) is a six channel video installation currently on view in the “Collecting a Moment” exhibition, Gallery of California Art, Oakland Museum of California, July 2026-27.
The exhibition Peter d’Agostino: World-Wide-Walks / SFBAY on view at the Transmission Gallery, July 30 – September 19, 2026. See the exhibition during current open hours, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12 - 5pm or by appointment.
Exhibition catalogues as well as a selection of books related to the artist’s work will also be available in the gallery, including: World-Wide-Walks / Peter d’Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (2019), Peter d’Agostino:
COLD/HOT - Walks, Wars & Climate Change (2019), Peter d'Agostino: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / 1973-2012
(2012), Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity & Intervention, 1978- 1999 (1999), Peter d'Agostino: Between Earth & Sky / MX (2007), TRACES: a multimedia installation of the Atomic Age (1995), TRANSMISSION: theory and practice for a new television aesthetics (1985), The Un/Necessary IMAGE (1982), Comings and Goings (1982), TeleGuide-Including Proposal for QUBE (1980), Photography and Language (1976).
Peter d'Agostino's pioneering video, photography, and new media projects have been exhibited internationally for over five decades. His work was in the Biennials of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gwangju, South Korea; Whitney Museum, New York; and is in the collections of the The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art MuseumPacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; National Gallery of Canada; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; among others.
Born in New York City, 1945, d’Agostino lived in San Francisco from 1968-77; his works of the 1970s were in the following survey exhibitions: Space-Time-Sound: Conceptual Art in the San Francisco Bay Area- the 1970s (1979), California Video (2008), Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 (2011-12), State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 (2011-14). He divides his time between the Bay Area and Philadelphia, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. A complete list of his projects is at peterdagostino.com.
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