“1971: Encouraged by Eric Siegel, we formed a group called “Perception” and received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, through Howard Wise’s Electronic Arts Intermix. Wise had put together the first exhibition of video in 1969 in his gallery on 57th Street [Television as a Creative Medium]. He did this unheard of thing – he made a video exhibition, which by now is legendary. We saw it then and were pretty impressed. It helped us decide that there was nothing illegitimate about what we were doing. A lot of people were influenced by that exhibit. We used the grant money partially to found an electronic arts action center: we named it The Kitchen.”