Video

Host

Kristin Lucas

1997, 07:36 minutes, English

TAPECODE 530.02

A therapy session is directed by the system operator of a streetside multimedia kiosk. While the artist indulges in a virtual conversation about a troublesome relationship, the session is transformed into an amalgamation of daytime television and tabloid, where the camera becomes the eye of the media.
The artist plays the role of user and system operator. The system operator or candid computer 'host' is both on-line technician and /or 'host' of an on-line program which is broadcast over the world wide web.

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Critical Writing

Video Art: The First Fifty Years
by Barbara London. New York: Phaidon, 2020.
Interrupting the program...: descrambling TV through video
by Heidi May. Canadian Art, Summer 2001, v. 18, no. 2.
The resurging video, reclaimed and reoriented
by Roberta Smith. The New York Times, Feb. 21 Winter, 1997, v. 146, no. 50710.