[ September 11th, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]  
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Participation, Steina (Iceland/USA) and Woody Vasulka (Czechoslovakia/Iceland/USA), 1972, 63 min., 1/2” open reel video shown on DVD

Participation is an assemblage of short videos shot with an early Portapak that documents the wildly creative downtown New York art and music scene in the late 1960s and early 70s.

 
 
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The [...]

[ September 18th, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]  

Distant Activities, 1972, 4:45 min., 1/2” open reel video shown on DVD

Video feedback was a very powerful image source in the early 70s. In Distant Activities not one but two cameras were pointed at the monitor simultaneously, one creating the pattern, the other the ripple effect inside the pattern. [...]

[ September 25th, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]  
Studies for Brotherhood, Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1980s and 90s, video documentation of narrative experiments shown on DVD

Brotherhood – 6 Media Constructions, Woody Vasulka, 1990s and ongoing, video documentation of narrative experiments shown on DVD

“While the central theme of Brotherhood revolves around the dilemma of male identity, it [...]