Critical Writing Index

Back To School In Rochester

by Douglas Edwards, Robert Haller and Laurien Alexandre

Media Arts, 1990, v. 2, no. 5 and 6, pp. 1-14

A complete issue of Media Arts issue 5 and 6 Vol., 2.

Editor's note: "At the last NAMAC Conference the media arts community grappled with the related but distinct subjects of teaching media arts and the use of media arts as educational tools. In this issue of MEDIA ARTS Robert Haller, a founder, long-standing Board member and seasoned veteran of NAMAC Conferences, offered his observation on the proceedings in Rochester. Accompanying his commentary are Laurien Alexandre's keynote address and the texts of two well-recieved presentations by panelists Coco Fusco and Christine Tamblyn..."

Articles include:

"Rochester Conference - Commentary" by Robert Haller,

"Giving Voice to the Silenced" by Laurien Alexandre,

"Does Culture Make a Difference in Media Education" by Coco Fusco,

"Video Criticism: Paradigms and Parasites" by Christine Tamblyn.

The issue also includes an artist interview with Dara Birnbaum by Robert Beck, as well as a commentary section on video art by Steve Soid.

ITEM 1990.068 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium – David Antin

Marshal McLuhan

Jean Baudrillard

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

The Work of the Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin

Robert Beck

Dara Birnbaum

Steve Soid

Nam June Paik

Tony Conrad

Jan-Christopher Horak

Frantz Fanon

I...Rigoberto Menchu – Jamaica Kincaid

Rigoberto Menchu

The Closing of the American Mind – Ernesto Cardenal

The Black Woman from Brazil – Alan Bloom

Lilith Video Collection of Brazil – Silvana Afram

Lysustrata – Silvana Afram

100 Years of Solitude

Black Boy – Gabriel Marquez

Thias – Richard Wright

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

The Yellow Girl – James Watson and Mellvile Webber

Epic – James Waston and Mellvile Webber

The Fall of The House of Usher – Pablo Neruda

The Yellow Girl – Jan-Christopher Horak

Video Art: OId Wine, New Bottles – James Watson and Melville Webber

The Withering Away of the State of The Art – Alan Kaprow

The Radio As An Apparatus of Communication – Hollis Frampton

He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life – Bertolt Brecht

Jonas Mekas

Feeding the Baby – Raimund Abraham

Louis and August Lumiere

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alexander Hammid

Hollis Frampton

The American Narrative Film - Its Roots and Its Flowers – Bruce Elder

Andrew Sarris

Chambers – Peter Kubelka

Signature – Maya Deren

French Film Theory and Criticism – Maya Deren

Richard Abel

Sheila Di Vola Bergman

Ralph Mckay

Fred Camper

Scott MacDonald

Loretta Czernis

Scott Nygren

Faust – Marilyn Jull

Water and Power – Stan Brakhag

Ballet Macanique – Pat O'Niell

Entr'acte – Bill Moritz

Lichtspiel No. 1 – Bill Moritz

Ruttmann

Oskar Gramann

Jaoa Luiz Vieira

Artur Omar

Skylight – Rose Lowder

Chris Welsby

Magellan – Jack Chambers

Canon: Talking to the Streets – Hollis Frampton

Lesson Plans: To Keep Revolution Alive – Dara Birnbaum

(A) Drift of Politics – Dara Birnbaum

Laverne and Shirley – Dara Birnbaum

The Pop-Pop-Video – Dara Birnbaum

Kojak/Wang – Dara Birnbaum

Wonder Woman – Dara Birnbaum

Damnation of Faust – Dara Birnbaum

Evocation – Dara Birnbaum

Will-O-the-Whisp – Dara Birnbaum

Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Plans – Dara Birnbaum

PM Magazine/Acid Rock – Dara Birnbaum

Fire! – Dara Birnbaum

Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry – Dara Birnbaum

Charming Landscape – Dara Birnbaum

Found a Cure – Dara Birnbaum

Ashford and Simpson

John Zieman

Robert Longo

Jack Goldstein

Ted Turner

John Maybey

Rich Fiest

Global Groove – Rhys Chatam

Fish Flies on Sky – Nam June Paik

TV Garden – Nam June Paik

A Man's Woman – Nam June Paik

Vault – Laura Kipnis

Clinic – Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

Dale Hoyt

Kaatje Cusse

Eric Siegel

Dan Sandin

Stephen Beck

Red Tapes – Bill Etra

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like – Vito Acconci

Bill Viola