The Legart Archive
Real Time (Sydney) #71: “Introducing the computer and its various applications to the arts scene was bootstrapped with the hosting of TISEA (Third International Symposium of Electronic Art) in Sydney in 1992 — listed in the Timeline context section of the book — and the author Darren Tofts picks up creative developments from around then until 2005.”
Radical Light – alternative film and video in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-2000. Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid (eds) for Leonardo journal
ARTICLE in LEONARDO 45(1):70-71 · JANUARY 2012 “Some seventy contributors: curators, critics, managers, artists and filmmakers themselves, are wrangled into a compendium that more than adequately describes the scene. As an artist filmmaker myself who screened work in North America during a tour in the mid-1970s, the vigour of activity in San Francisco left vivid memories. “
LEONARDO, Vol. 43, No. 5 (2010) “As an academic with the University of Amsterdam and Curator with the Dutch Film Museum the author brings a wealth of knowledge both theoretical and practical. Consolidated under the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in 1938, the field is a site of rivalries, jealousies and disagreements which the author negotiates by laying out the principle approaches taken by the archivist and the technician.”
LEONARDO NOV 2009 “Camouflage technology emerges as the reader works through the book, picking out detail from the background of seemingly endless anecdotal biography entertainingly presented, though of curiosity value to any but the serious researcher.”
“There is plenty to be done in the new areas of digital art distribution, primarily with CD-ROM and the World Wide Web.” The prophetic article for Photofile No 45, published by the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, examines innovative approaches taken by David Blair to “image-processed narrative” using internet browsers, at a very early stage of the internet’s development into an artistic and public medium.
