Critical Writing Index

The Grammar of the Video Image

by Eric Cameron

Arts Magazine, Dec. 1974, v. 49, no. 4, pp. 48-51

Eric Cameron discusses the video work of faculty and student artists from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971. Explorative and diverse, this group of artists create a didactic language of academic video art, focusing on theoretical speculation, all the while breaking new ground in video.

ITEM 1974.021 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

13 Spatial Definitions – Patrick Kelly

Strip Up – Patrick Kelly

Catch – Patrick Kelly

Video Birthday Party of John Cage – Shigeko Kubota

Video Tracing – Brian McNevin

133 Days in Halifax – Harold Pearse

Smile – Albert McNamara

Front and Back – Richards Jarden

Length 4 – Gerald Ferguson

Inhale Exhale – Douglas Waterman

Step – Wallace Brannen