At Arm's Length: (Taking a Good Hard Look at) Artists' Video

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that despite supporting the production of Incidence of Catastrophe more than two years ago,Channel 4 has still not screened the tape.)Each of these works by Wegman, Sanborn and Perillo, Viola and Hill offers a wayforward for moving images to explore and express new ideas in new ways. Each wasproduced with a strand of the varied and disparate institution that television has become.Each is screened on television, as well as being shown extensively elsewhere. Each engageswith television's forms, while at the same time offering alternatives. Each offers an implicitcritique of the generally impoverished languages of the medium, but constructively so.Each of the works suggest that video art can see beyond the traditional attitude of rebelliontowards a once-frightful parent, and so achieve a new relationship with television that bothparent and offspring, together with the rest of us, will find enriching.ReferencesAntin, David. "Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium" in John G. Hanhardt, ed.,Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, New York: Peregrine Smith Books (1986).Baudrillard, Jean. "Requiem for the Media" trans. by Charles Levin in Hanhardt, ed., VideoCulture: A Critical Investigation, New York: Peregrine Smith Books (1986).22
Brecht, Bertolt. "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication" trans. by John Willett, inHanhardt, ed., Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, New York: Peregrine Smith Books(1986).Coulihan, Mick. "Orthodoxy, Revisionism, and Guerilla Warfare in Mass CommunicationsResearch", CCCS mimeo, University of Birmingham, quoted in Morley (1980).Davis, Douglas. "The End of Video: White Vapor" in Gregory Battock, ed., New ArtistsVideo: A Critical Anthology, New York: E.P. Dutton (1978).Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, "Constituents of a Theory of the Media" trans. by StuartHood, in Hanhardt, ed., Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, New York: Peregrine SmithBooks (1986).Hanhardt, John G. (1984). "Video Art: Expanded Forms—Notes Towards a History" in TheLuminous Image, exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.Huffman, Kathy (1983) The Second Link : Video Viewpoints in the 1980s, Banff, Canada:Walter Phillips Gallery.Lovejoy, Margot (1989) Postmodern Currents, Ann Arbor and London: UMI ResearchPress. -23
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