“This was part of a work commissioned by LVA to utilise a video in a window of the Air Gallery during an exhibition of video art entitled ‘Scanners’. I was one of, I think’ 4 artists invited to participate. Each would supply 3 channels of video images to be incorporated into looped sequences which would be displayed on 9 monitors. Before starting on the work I became very excited about the possibilities of making images which would link across the monitors in any direction, …
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“A Haiku. Shot in domestic surroundings, making use of whatever images and objects came to hand, I tried to assemble a narrative or failing that suggest a situation that was open ended enough to be recognisable by a viewer in terms of his or her own memories or emotions. It seems to fit in easily with a number of tapes or installations with maritime themes that I made around this time.” Mick Hartney, March 2008 …
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“On 21st January 1980 word spread around Brighton that a fairly large boat had been grounded on the beach near the palace pier. The art college is only a few minutes from the beach so it was fairly inevitable that I would grab a portapack and head in that direction. A crowd had already gathered and many of them like me were there to record the event, mainly with still cameras. The rescue services were doing what they could and no one’s life seemed in peril so I recorded for about half and hour and then went back to work. …
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“Following on from the simple deployment of chroma-key in Cloud Cover, I planned a more complex use of the device, which would include a parallel use of spoken text. I had discovered that a readily available coloured mounting board available from any artists suppliers, gave better results for chroma-key than the officially recommended shade of blue. Using a standard sized example of this board as a kind of moving matte, I built up several layers of my own image wearing different coloured clothes to distinguish them. …
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“The main TV studio at Brighton Polytechnic was equipped with a chroma-key facility and I was interested to see what could be done with it apart from weather presenter type superimpositions. I felt that the bringing together of two spaces into a single image would be more effective the more similarities there were. I came up with a very simple idea of using the same mirror in the same orientation apparently reflecting both an interior and an exterior space in one seamless sequence” …
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Announcement of the transmission of John Latham’s Video works for Channel Four television’, Annalogue, 1990. pdf here
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. Featuring Target pieces by John Latham. pdf here …
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Announcement of the transmission of John Latham’s Video works for Channel Four television’, Annalogue, 1990. pdf here
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. Featuring Target pieces by John Latham. pdf here …
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Announcement of the transmission of John Latham’s Video works for Channel Four television’, Annalogue, 1990. pdf here
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. Featuring Target pieces by John Latham. pdf here …
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‘Announcement of the transmission of John Latham’s Video works for Channel Four television’, Annalogue, 1990. pdf here
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. Featuring Target pieces by John Latham. pdf here …
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Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. Featuring Five Closedowns by David Cunningham. pdf here …
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