Month: November 2013

Closed Circuit Video Installation

A substantial body of published PhD research into international artists use of close-circuit television (CCTV) in video installations in the 1960s and 1970s. Available in the left column is a downloadable PDF from the 1000 pages of the sections describing work made in Britain and Australia.
Original in German: Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen : Ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst mit Bausteinen eines Künstlerlexikons. Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 3-8325-0600-4
© 2004-2005 bei dem Autor und Verlag. Slavko Kacunko, Düsseldorf http://www.slavkokacunko.de Logos Verlag, Berlin http://www.logos-verlag.de

2005
Slavko Kacunko

Art Demands a New Breed of Programmer

1996
Mike Leggett

The article written for the Sydney Morning Herald on the 23rd April 1996 centers on the work of Gideon May. As a commercial programmer based in Holland, he was attending the new media conference organised by the Australian Film Commission, having worked extensively with artists, including Sydney-based artist Bill Seaman. The article – top left – refers to several artists, the Burning the Interface exhibition at the MCA and ZKM Centre in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Outside the Grounds of Obscenity and Inside the Grounds of Hyde Park

1975
3 days

A closed-circuit video (CCTV) performance installation (May 16th – 18th) commissioned for The Video Show at the Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park, London, May 1975. A prepared videotape of 42-minutes duration, recording the scene through the gallery windows, is progressively edited following a predetermined schema, with inserts of the same scene recorded at later periods in the performance. (Catalogue page, audience notes and documentation photos top left. An analysis of the final tape is currently in progress to determine how the installation performance developed over the three days.)