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Venezuela
Scrutiny (1974)
‘The Video Show’, catalogue entry, Steve Partridge, Serpentine Gallery, 1st-25th May 1975. pdf here …
Interlace
‘All these early black & white videotapes were made on 1/2 inch reel-reel open tape video recorders. Editing was achieved by roughly cueing up a player and recorder, marking with a white film-crayon, winding back as accurately as possible for a pre-roll, than engaging play. You hoped to press the edit button at the right time (or place) and that it would be releatively ‘clean’ . It was a hit&miss affair and certainly had little to do with film-style montage – …
Crosspoints
‘All these early black & white videotapes were made on 1/2 inch reel-reel open tape video recorders. Editing was achieved by roughly cueing up a player and recorder, marking with a white film-crayon, winding back as accurately as possible for a pre-roll, than engaging play. You hoped to press the edit button at the right time (or place) and that it would be releatively ‘clean’ . It was a hit&miss affair and certainly had little to do with film-style montage – …
Vidicon Inscriptions (The Videotape 1976)
‘Over-lighting exceeds capacity for assimilation in a 1970s video camera and images are burnt into the surface of its ‘vidicon’ tube. Here a unique property is explored where both the passage of time and trace of that continuum are registered as one… In this, the original tape, one of three sections records the image of the artist with a camera (via a mirror) panning, by stages, across the screen. Before movement the lens is covered and re-exposed after the change, …
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Instruction Limitation
Further Known Screenings:
1978 London Video Arts
1978 Royal College of Art
1978 Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
1981 Chelsea School of Art …
Zeno Reaches Zero
Further Known Screenings:
2B Butlers Wharf
“‘Zeno Reaches Zero’ This was the first single monitor piece I made which could only have been realised on video. It was based on a conundrum – that of Zeno’s paradox, where the number zero can never be reached by halving any number repeatedly, ad infinitum. However, this was over- ridden by being expressed through recording and re-recording a series of countdowns starting at 256. A second countdown was recorded from screen and a new ‘counting head’ …
Trialogue
“With Trialogue I was beginning to want to work in a more controlled way, trying to use video across multiple monitors and multiple layers of recording to explore ideas that went beyond looking at the nature of the medium. This piece layers three parts of a single narrative across three monitors contained within a single tape. I think it was the first time I used words in a narrative sense in a video tape – …
Memory 1 & 2
Further Known Screenings:
London Video Arts
Chelsea School of Art
Royal College of Art
Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
Kunst Akademie Dusseldorf
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