Progressive Recession (1974)

‘A live interactive installation (using no recording equipment) which, as the participant moves through, progressively separates and distances his/her image from its origin.’ David Hall 1974

‘Many early installations were devised as a complex analogical mirror where the viewer, interacting with his/her image as collaborator rather than spectator, was simultaneously the viewed in a process of ‘self-referring consciousness’. It is quite evident here that artists were intent on exploring relationships of hitherto unapproachable psychological innovation and response, …

Crisps

Crisps

Leaflet advertising a weekend of video events at Serpentine Gallery, London. Includes a screening of Steve Littman’s ‘Crisps’.pdf here

Stills from Crisps, 1980, 4 mins.pdf here

Art statement for ‘Crisps – 1980 4 mins’, includes information on the production process, editing process and post production systems.pdf here

Nmutter

Announcement of the transmission of John Latham’s Video works for Channel Four television’, Annalogue, 1984. pdf here

Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. Featuring Target pieces by John Latham. pdf here

Arbitrary Logic

“The film and video artist Malcolm Le Grice (1940-, UK) has written about the issues raised by the emergence of the non-linear manipulation and its implications for film and video from ideas that have emerged from his own fine art practice, including a sustained period of working with accessible digital technology. In work such as Arbitrary Logic (1986), Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy (1988) and Digital Still Life (1989), Le Grice worked with inexpensive home computers (initially the Sinclair Spectrum and the Atari) to explore the potential of the digital and its implications for moving image within a fine art context.” …

Faded Wallpaper

Press Release for the Tate gallery, Patrons of the New Art, Performance installation by Tina keane: “Faded Wallpaper”, 24th, 26th & 27th November 1988, London.pdf here.

Performance: Tina Keane, Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988.pdf here.

VIDEOaktiv magazine: Magazin.Video-Galerie 1987 pdf here.

Poster for ‘Faded Wallpaper’ being shown at the Tate, London taken from publication Electronic Shadows, …

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