‘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, and each time the image appears inscribed onto the screen. In the interactive installation a camera registers the live passage of time through a translucent polaroid shutter. Periodically the shutter lifts – triggered by participants’ movements – and images are fixed and inscribed.’ David Hall, 1974

Licence contract for 3 works to art/tapes/22, Florence, Italy, 1975. pdf here

Galleria Del Cavallino, San Marco 1977 Catalogue. pdf here

‘Videotapes by British Artists – Galleria del cavallino, san marco 1725 venezia’, a programme of videotapes and installations, 1977. Includes information on the work ‘Vidicon Inscriptions’.pdf here

Catalogue for ‘Video Art 78’, an international festival of video art, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry. Includes information on ‘Vidicon Inscriptions’.pdf here