PROGRAM 1: INTERMEDIA
NOV 24 – DEC 1
PROGRAM 1: INTERMEDIA [2020 ARCHIVE]
INTERMEDIA: Descriptions & Video Stills
Due to licensing restrictions, videos are no longer available for viewing.
Visite au Japon
Michael GOLDBERG
Canada, 1971, B&W, 6 min
Shot in 1971 and later distributed as part of a Video Inn sampler tape, Visite au Japon captures walls of televisions in Tokyo’s Akihabara district and peeks behind the scenes of a television period drama production, placing the historical in dialogue with the futuristic.
Image of Image Seeing / 映像の映像 /
Eizō no eizō
Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI, Saburo MURAOKA, and Keiji UEMATSU
Japan, 1973, B&W, 11 min
A collaborative performance, Image of Image–Seeing investigates the meaning of television watching. This work was created for television broadcast on the Nippon Broadcasting Corporation’s program “Hyōgo no jikan” (Hyōgo Time). [EAI]
Video Inn Feedback
Video Inn
Canada, 1974, B&W, 12 min
In the unauthored Video Inn Feedback, members of Video Inn explore the cosmic, seemingly limitless potentials of a camera and a monitor, pushing legible images into abstract plays of light and shape.
Computer Movie No. 2 /
CTG (Computer Technique Group)
Japan, 1969, B&W, 8 min
An early landmark of computer art–one produced in advance of video editing software–for Computer Movie No. 2 members of CTG used 16mm film in order to animate still images designed using the IBM 1130 Computer and IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit.
Tokyo Kid Brothers in Rehearsal
Michael GOLDBERG
Canada, 1972, B&W, 25 min (5 min excerpt. 20:05-25:00)
First presented at the 1972 exhibition Video Communication: DO-IT-YOURSELF KIT at Sony’s Ginza showroom, Tokyo Kid Brothers in Rehearsal captures a pantomime performance for and with the camera by a member of the musical troupe Tokyo Kid Brothers.
