Meets poets George Quasha and Charles Stein who become long time friends and collaborators.  1978 Creates first works dealing with the speaking voice in relation to the image. Receives a Production Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a Creative Artist Public Service Fellowship, and the first of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Directs Open Studio Video Project at the Arnolfini Art Center, Rhinebeck, NY, and collaborative performance works with George Quasha et al.  1979-1980 Moves to Buffalo, New York and teaches at the Center for Media Study, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, New York. Meets Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka, Paul Sharits, and Hollis Frampton. First solo museum exhibition with the installation Mesh at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York. Produces Soundings as artist-in-residence at WNET/Channel 13, New York, New York. Also completes "Around & About", "Processual Video", and "Black/White/Text", all focusing on the relationship between language and image.  1981 Returns to Barrytown, New York and begins work on "Primarily Speaking". Visits the West Coast for the summer and renews interest in surfing. Recipient of a Rockefeller Video Artist Fellowship.  1982-83 Teaches at the summer graduate program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Invited to the American Center in Paris for a videotape retrospective and meets Anne Angelini, who later performs in several works. Influenced by readings of Gregory Bateson's "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" and John C. Lilly's "Center of the Cyclone" and "The Scientist".  1984 Moves to Kamakura, Japan supported by a Japan/U.S. Exchange Fellowship and there marries Katherine Bourbonais. Returns to Barrytown, New York for the summer and produces "Why Do Things get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)" with his wife and Charles Stein performing (in the Quasha Stained Glass Studio). 1985 Returns to Japan to live and work in Tokyo. Meets Kyogan Master Don Kenny who performs along with Kathy Bourbonais in "URA ARU (the backside exists)". As artist-in-residence at SONY in Hon Atsugi, completes the first edit of the work. Moves to Seattle, Washington and establishes a video program at Cornish College of the Arts.  1986 Birth of daughter, Anastasia.