CLAYTON PATTERSON | BIOGRAFISCHE NOTIZEN 

Geboren in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1948. — Ausbildung: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; University of Alberta, Edmonton; President: Tattoo Society of New York; Teaching 1975-79: Alberta College of Art, University of Alberta Extension, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Visiting Artist: Alberta College of Art, SUNY University, Purchase NY, Marymount University, N]., Cal Arts Film Festival 5 Los Angeles, CA, University of Rutgers, New School N.Y.C., University of Evansville, Ind., University of Alberta University of Calgary Glenbow Museum Political; Created strategy to save 8th. street Shul (occupied, siege, squat, resulted in million dollar law suit and saved building).

Archiv: 2000 Videotapes, 3/4 Million photographs, used by a number of Authors, Students, the Smithsonian Institute, and for International projects. Produced fifty-six 30 min. and 10 two 1 hour Clayton Presents a weekly or special Television series on Manhattan Cable and Paragon Cable TV Systems. Hundreds of real life documentary videos: riots, drugs, artists, poets, drag queens, magic, tattoos & body modification, religion, police actions, neighborhood people, parades, street activity and so on, Tompkins Sq. Park Police Riot (Video-3 hr. 33 min.) Aug. 6-7, 1988. Video footage included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archives, Dinkemsville Footage 15 used by HELIOS PRODUCTION, CNN, A Current Affair, Witness Video (NBC), Inside Edition (CBS), Street Stories Court TV, CNBC, Entertainment Tonight, Paramount Pictures, Rakowitz Story, CNBC-TV.

Bibliografie: Janet L. Abu-Lughod, From Urban Village to the East Village. The Battle for New York's Lower Eat Side, New York, 2002. — Richard Kostelanetz, Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes. And Soho. The Rise and Fall of an Artists Community. — Howard French, Todd Purdum and Michael Wines, New York Times, 1988. — Colin Moynihan, Lens on the Lower East Side, The New York Times, 1999.