In the 1970s Alpert's conceptual and performance art included the performance sculpture Strategy for a Dance; the video works Post Time, A Circular Route, The Opacity of Order, and Facture; the article and collection South of the Slot; the printed works Women: On Our Way and Stretch; and the performances Hand Generated Light, Probe, Finger, and Sylph.
In 1976 Artweek Magazine described several of these works.
They wrote that Hand Generated Light was created by Alpert locking himself in a closet for three hours cranking a manual electrical generator keeping a tiny light aglow on the outside of the door.
The magazine described this work, as well as Spent Time, Spent Energy and Sylph by the term "Generating Art", whereby the subject of the work itself was the generation of the art being created.
Another of his major works from this period of his career is Sound Sculpture.


In 1975 Alpert was interviewed as a part of a Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco (MOCA) sponsored history of art project entitled 11 Video Interviews produced by Jeanette Willison, and was involved with another MOCA film compilation entitled A Tight Thirteen Minutes that same year, featuring one-minute color video works from thirteen artists.
During this period his work was featured in magazines including Artweek and Arts Magazine.
Alpert received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Sculpture in 1979.
In the 1970s Alpert's conceptual and performance art included the performance sculpture Strategy for a Dance; the video works Post Time, A Circular Route, The Opacity of Order, and Facture; the article and collection South of the Slot; the printed works Women: On Our Way and Stretch; and the performances Hand Generated Light, Probe, Finger, and Sylph. In 1976 Artweek Magazine described several of these works. They wrote that Hand Generated Light was created by Alpert locking himself in a closet for three hours cranking a manual electrical generator keeping a tiny light aglow on the outside of the door. The magazine described this work, as well as Spent Time, Spent Energy and Sylph by the term "Generating Art", whereby the subject of the work itself was the generation of the art being created. Another of his major works from this period of his career is Sound Sculpture.

In 1975 Alpert was interviewed as a part of a Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco (MOCA) sponsored history of art project entitled 11 Video Interviews produced by Jeanette Willison, and was involved with another MOCA film compilation entitled A Tight Thirteen Minutes that same year, featuring one-minute color video works from thirteen artists. During this period his work was featured in magazines including Artweek and Arts Magazine. Alpert received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Sculpture in 1979.
Richard Alpert (artist)