Video to salvage TV Wasteland
The Globe and Mail, Sept. 10, 1982
This article discusses the programming and the tapes that will air at the Festival of Festivals Video Video. The article speaks with the programmer of the video portion of the festival, Marien Lewis, on how video art is percieved and recieved. According to the article, Ms. Lewis is trying to program the festival so that it "calms the hostile, convert the skeptical" and turns them on to video artwork.
ITEM 1982.040 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Tongues – Shirely Clarke
The looking glass – Juan Downey
American Male – John Arvanites
Sink or Swim – Paulette Phillips and Geoffrey Shea
Meta Mayan II – Edin Velez
Hatsu Yume – Bill Viola
Industrial Track – John Watt
Herbivores, carnivores – Tomiyo Sasaki
How many fingers. – Andy Patterson
Beneath the skin – Cecila Condit
Mass Memory – Susan Briton
Through the holes – Liz Vanderzaag
Leaving the twentieth century – Max Almy
The Loner – Tony Oursler
Gary Cowvein – Branda Miller and Jeff Isaak
La Bonne – Barbara Steinman
Perceptual Defence – Christa Schadt