Produced for a compilation video of 1 minute pieces by various artists called ‘Miniatures’. A lurid collage of images and text appropriated from the British mass media — TV news, tabloid headlines, advertising graphics — is accompanied by a narrator’s wryly delivered anecdote on the “non-event of the year.” Boy George, Royal Couples, political scandals and Halley’s Comet vie for the title in this vivid, 60-second media time capsule. – Electronic Arts Intermix
Piece written about John Adams and his video works for the Electronic Arts Intermix Catalogue pdf here. …
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Installation version was entitled ‘Goldfish Memoirs and the Think Tank’
Time and Tide, The Tyne International Exhibition, Newcastle Upon Tyne 18th June – 5th September 1993 pdf here.
Time and Tide, The Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art Catalogue 1993: Section of script from John Adams work Goldfish Memoirs & The Think Tank pdf here.
Introduction written by Tom Van Vliet for programme of the 12th World Wide Video Festival, …
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Adams’ strategy of simultaneously constructing and deconstructing a narrative text finds its most accomplished expression in Intellectual Properties. Shot on 16mm film in Boston and Newcastle, England, this six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. “The theme is power, as related to politics, economics, mass media, advertising, modern myth, art and business, money and personality; illustrated by means of jokes, stories and anecdotes, both autobiographical and observational,” writes Adams. …
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‘Ian Breakwell: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY, Videotape, b&w, mono sound, 1975’, text about the work written by the artist in 2001.pdf here
EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY – Log of extracts.pdf here …
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Flier/poster, ‘Rotatory’, The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, 1975. pdf here. …
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Part 1 of 4. I was present in 1983 when Apple launched the Macintosh. Ridley Scott shot the commercial – I shot him shooting it for Apple. A circle of ideas. Prisoners are what we are if we cannot chamnge our thinking paterns. – Terry Flaxton
’25 years ago I was asked by Chiatt Day Advertising in Los Angeles to cover the making of ‘1984’ for Apple Computers. This commercial was to be directed by Ridley Scott to introduce the Macintosh to the world. …
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