REWIND Yugoslavia 1969-91 is a project focused on video art production, discussion and consumption from the former Yugoslavia, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). The project is led by Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, working in partnership with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee.
This is the latest funded research project in REWIND’s long history of investigating, examining and preserving early works of video art. …
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by David Curtis
This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol’s twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie’s 24-hour Vexations) and fringe theatre (People Show / Freehold / Jane Arden’s Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven / Will Spoor Mime Theatre). …
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Edited by Laura Leuzzi, Elaine Shemilt and Stephen Partridge
EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s is the main output of this research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. The research team consisted of the Principal Investigator, Professor Elaine Shemilt, the Co-investigator Professor Stephen Partridge, Dr Laura Leuzzi, as Post-Doctoral Researcher and Adam Lockhart as Media Archivist. …
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Expanded Cinema Family Tree by Duncan White et al. 2008
A Family Tree of organisations and practitioners involved in the development of Expanded Cinema. Produced for the AHRC research project Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema at CSM University of the Arts London and DJCAD University of Dundee.
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Please note: This diagram is a first edition. It should not be considered definitive. There are many gaps and missing players. …
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Edited by Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge
Italy was a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
This early seminal experimentation attracted artists from all over the world and laid the foundation for video art. However since then, early Italian video art has received only scant international exposure. Its contribution to the history of video as an art form has for too long escaped the recognition that it so unequivocally deserves. …
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Editors: Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt
Release Date: 30th September 2012
With a Foreword by Brian Winston
Rewind: Artists video in the 70s and 80s derives from a four-year research project into the history of an art form that has become the hallmark of contemporary art. Based on an archive of interviews, ephemera and archive copies of tapes and installations from the pioneering period of British video art, this anthology brings together some of the leading scholars in the field, …
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Autore: Marco M Gazzano
Kinema. Il cinema sulle tracce del cinema. Dal film alle arti elettroniche, andata e ritorno [Brossura]
An anthology of Professor Marco Maria Gazzano’s seminal essays, papers and speeches on electronic arts, video art, cinema and television from 1976 to 2012 at the discovery of the development, diffusion and the exchanges between these practises in Italy and not only. The volume is closed by The Chronology of Video Art in Italy (1952-1952) curated by Laura Leuzzi (Research Assistant, …
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Curated/edited by Silvia Bordini
Catalogue of a seminal exhibition on international electronic arts at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara (24th June-2 September 2001) curated by Silvia Bordini. The exhibition showed works by, among the others: Robert Cahen, Maurizio Camerani, Nam June Paik, Fabrizio Plessi, Mario Sasso, Gerry Schum, Studio Azzurro, Bill Viola, Wolf Vostell.
The volume comprehends essays by Silvia Bordini, Marco Gazzano, Sandra Lischi and Ralph Melcher. The book is closed by a chronology of electronic arts curated by Francesca Gallo. …
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Curated by Cosetta G. Saba
Art/tapes/22, collezione ASAC. La Biennale di Venezia. Conservazione, restauro, valorizzazione
The book was published on the occasion of the recovery of the first group of works from art/tapes/22 preserved at ASAC, the archive of the Venice Biennale. The volume contains a large documentation on art/tapes/22 and ASAC video activity and details of the process of recovery of the tapes. It contains essays by Maria Gloria Bicocchi, …
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Curated by Sandra Lischi and Silvia Moretti
The volume is the most updated resource on Gianni Toti, writer, poet, journalist and video artist.
The book contains texts by Gianni Toti, Anna Barenghi, Michel Chion, Marco Maria Gazzano, Ando Gilardi, Sandra Lischi, Mario Lunetta, Marc Mercier, Silvia Moretti, Italo Moscati, Rossella Rega, Tarcisio Tarquini, Giuseppe Zagarrio
Il volume costituisce la risorsa più aggiornata sulla figura di Gianni Toti, scrittore, poeta, …
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