Critical Writing Index

First-generation video

by Carole Corbeil

The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1986

A review of the Vintage Video exhibition, which focuses on a number of pieces by Canadian video artists from the early 1970's who use the camera as a kind of mirror in order to get physical with their subjects.

ITEM 1986.007 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Insertion (an excerpt) – Eric Cameron

Janus – Colin Campbell

A Very Personal Story – Lisa Steele

My recall of an Imprint form a Hypothetical Jungle – David Askevold

Kiss – Robert Bowers

Happy Birthday – Gerry Gilbert and Carole Itter

Birth's child – Noel Harding

Scan/Gaspé – Michael Hayden

Box Concert – Suzy Lake

Shuffle – Doug Waterman

Peepers – John Watt

Sand Pile – Tom Burrows

Dance Soap – Marien Lewis

Earthworks in Harmony – Paul Wong