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Taxi Driver II
The Venetian Ghost
The Greatest Hits Of Scratch Video Vol 1-2
Cover designs for Scratch Video 1, and Scratch Video 2. pdf here.
‘Cooking for Terrorists’, Julian Petley (what’s become of ‘scratch video’?), New Statesman, June 1988. pdf here. …
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Intellectual Properties
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. …
Water Cycle
Introduction to TV Interventions
Cumbrae Clyde
Commissioned by Channel 4 TV, Cumbrae Clyde was one of the “Dadarama” series of six works. In the 4th Century B.C. Plato, as the first artists, after the invention of the Greek alphabet, to understand precisely the limiting conditions of his medium, declared a State of Division on which no improvement has been made since. It amounts to a specification for the Divided State Scociety, the end result of which is only too clearly visible in the international condition one looks at today. …
19:4:90 TV Interventions
The TV Interventions project signals the end of the period of investigation for REWIND. The series for Channel 4 references David Hall’s TV Interruptions of 20 years before, as the 4 minute clips intervened in Channel 4’s schedule over an Easter weekend in 1990. Nineteen works were produced by Fields & Frames Productions and Anna Ridley from artists including David Mach, Ron Geesin, Rose Garrard, Bruce Maclean, and Alistair Maclennan.
The Television Interventions Catalogue, …
Stooky Bill TV (1990)
Commisioned by Fields & Frames Productions for Channel 4 TV as part of th TV Interventions Project.
“John Logie Baird invented television. He had worked in isolation for two years, partly because he could afford no help, and partly because he was terrified that his invention would be stolen. His only assistant was a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill. Bill spent many hours under the intense light in front of various machines which were built from the cheapest materials. …
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