1988
Modern Image Makers Association
The first screening made in Australia having arrived as a new migrant. See also Australia Tour 1981.
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Avant-Garde Cinema
1976
Rocky Mountain Film Center
A highly respected cinemateque that used the planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado. The season included George Landow, Peter Gidal, Carmen Vigil and myself in person with other screenings of work by Stan Brackage and others.
The London Filmmakers Co-op (A History)
1979
Mike Leggett
The catalogue (edited by Rod Stoneman) listed films funded during the 1970s by the BFI. Though I had never been funded through them, the editor had recently worked with me on a chapter, Film Related Practice and the Avant-garde, about my recent work for SCREEN journal, another BFI publication. We had also, with others, formed a sub-committee of the Co-op to produce a paper for the 1978 AGM proposing changes to aspects of its Distribution operation. The article was based on this paper and was not well received by a faction within the LFMC Committee.
The Recollection
1975
Hugh Stoddard (cur)
The Recollection was the title of an exhibition curated by the Arts Officer, Hugh Stoddard, from South West Arts of artists’ work from across a range of media. The show used a calendar format as a catalogue, (though there were no essays included), the January page image being based on post-production notes made during the editing of Window, the third part of the film series Sheepman & the Sheared, a film shot throughout a 12 month period.
Perspectives on British Avant-Garde Film
1977
David Curtis (Ed)
The exhibition and screening program at the Hayward Gallery, London in March and April, was sponsored by the Artists’ Film Committee of the Arts Council of Greta Britain. The Sheepman & the Sheared series was included, along with a working drawing from the film Erota/Afini. An essay by Deke Dusinberre provides a critical response to the series.
1973 Festival of Avant-garde Film, National Film Theatre, London
1973
David Curtis, et al
The two-week event, the 2nd international gathering in London, featured some 150 filmmakers; single and double screen projection and the new kid on the block, VIDEO! My contribution was the premiere of the film, Erota/Afini with specially prepared piano interlude, the exhibition of the poster print Video and Video/Film and a video installation based on the videotape ‘Laugh’; two monitors were placed back to back each facing an audience in full view of one other.
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Rewind: Artists’ Video in the 70s and 80s – the Formative Years
2006
Sean Cubit and Stephen Partridge
British Artists’ Video in the 70s and 80s – Rewind: the Formative Years. The exhibition followed a significant research and archiving project, funded by the Humanties Research Council of GB.
A Digital Crisis
1998c
Mike Leggett
An article about the adoption of digital tools and their adaptation in the making of traditional artforms. Reference is made to the Virtual Cermaics (1993), the CyberCeramics websites and the work of K. Inoue and Robin Best. (NB I have mislaid where an exactly when this appeared – TBC)
Update: Support for Australian Media Arts
ARTLINK Issue 21:3 | September 2001: “Through a process of active lobbying by various people around the country in the mid-eighties, the funding and institutional support for art and technology practice in Australia began to materialise. Some key figures in this push were Stephanie Britton, Louise Dauth and Gary Warner who saw the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) come into existence. The progress of the Australian new media arts scene is here documented from these early years and the various initiatives and supportive programs and events through to what is now the fundamental arts and cultural practice of the twentieth century. Artists Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark and Mari Velonaki are featured.”
2001
Julieanne Pierce