9/24/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Nancy Buchanan
Nancy Buchanan is a conceptual artist working in many forms, including videos, installations, drawings, and mixed media work. Continue reading
Nancy Buchanan is a conceptual artist working in many forms, including videos, installations, drawings, and mixed media work. Continue reading
The documentary TRANSSEXUALS features a look at the transgender community in New York in 1971. Continue reading
Laurie Little is a Chicago-based filmmaker, artist, and educator. Continue reading
Skip Blumberg is an activist and video artist whose work has been shown widely on TV, the web, media art centers, and museums. Continue reading
Eleanor Boyer is a Chicago-based videomaker who has worked in video activism since the 1970s, beginning with her work on the Women’s Video Project at the Loop YWCA. Continue reading
Ira Schneider is a video artist living in Berlin, who was part of the Raindance Corporation and the co-editor of Video Art: An Anthology. Continue reading
“The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri. Continue reading
“The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri. Continue reading