Item is a video work created by Edward Slopek in 1978, titled Black Box on Being: Excerpts from Chapter 11 of the Confessions of St. Augustine. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979. Audio is reading of text by St. Augustine’s philosophy and the visual is of nails being pounded.
Item is a video work created by Edward Slopek in 1978, titled Black Box on Being: Excerpts from Chapter 11 of the Confessions of St. Augustine. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979. Audio is reading of text by St. Augustine’s philosophy and the visual is of nails being pounded.
Item consists of a video recording by Aube Giroux entitled "Beyond Pyramids". The video is a documentary film that investigates the environmental and cultural impacts Egypt's tourism industry.
Item consists of video works created by various artists between 1980 and 1986. Videos include: Embodiments of the mind 2 by Edward Slopek (3 min., 11 sec.); Wall to Wall by Eric Cameron (11 min.); Cheyene a romance by Liz MacDougall and Andy Dowden (3 min., 55 sec.); A car the road and a camera, by Daniel Lander (2 min., 6 sec.); Beautiful Beasts by Kathy Tanney (5 min., 6 sec.).
Item is a video work created by Kathy Tanney in 1983. Video is of a conversation between male and female characters, over visuals of Christ and E.T. Snippets of music, character talking about her mother, Marianne Faithfull over romance comics and someone beating an animal doll.
Item is a poster for a screening of 8 videotapes from North America, held on March 18, 1986, at the National Film Board Theatre. This event was part of the Audio by Artists festival in 1986. The artists that participated in this event were: David Askevold, Francois Girard, Ihor Holubizky, Michael Klein, Christian Marclay, Ileana Montalvo, Bruce Robb and Mark Veriaboff.
Item consists of a video recording by Tonya Mais of the Audio by Artists Festival. The recording includes "I’m so Sorry", "Pure Vert", and "Half Human".
Item consists of a promotional tape for Atlantic Tours. Makes you completely forget about the smelly exhaust filled atmosphere of buses. The narrator, a young handsome escort, assures you that your tour will be worry-free, informative and most significantly, full of fun. The tape is comprised of footage from one scenic and one shopping excursion and includes quaint impersonations by the narrator, as well as live footage and interviews with seniors.
Item consists of a video recording by Natalie Bookchin entitled "Artist Presentation". The video is a documentation of artist’s presentation on her work utilizing the internet.
Item is a video work created by Edward Slopek in 1983. The video is of a close-up of a speaking mouth, repeating a short philosophical blurb by Sir Alistair Hardy. Each time the speaker repeats, he seems to drop bits of words, making the passage of text more and more disjointed and garbled. In the end, it no longer has the appearance of spoken English. This is accompanied by an irritating single-note, high-pitched drone, which further alienates the viewer.
Item consists of a video recording by Robert Hersey that is describee as: "Through interviews Arthur develops a rather externalized portrait of a senior high school student of the same name."
Item consists of a video recording entitled "Animated Anomalies", which is about a showcase of animated media from artists engaged in anomalies of content and form, concentrating on grotesque, fringe sexuality, ribald humour, and the unconventional.
Items consist of video recordings by Jim MacSwain's "Amoeba Culture" (3:30), Bryan Maycock's "W.I.P." (1:30), Felicity Redgrave's "In Search of the Sacred" (3:10), Andrew Terris' "Glasswork: Video Segment" (1:40), Ricardo Scipio's "Untitled" (9:10), and Ken Mayfield's "Next Song of Day" (1 min.).
Item consists of a video recording by Aaron Schmidt entitled "Altercate". The video's contents have been described as: "Two men wearing furry shorts and false beards wrestle eachother to show domnance in the manner of primitive animals."
Item consists of a video by Valerie LeBlanc. The tape is a personal recount of the director’s decision to give up one art form, that of glass blowing, to move on to something new. Shot in simple style that combines still images with a visual performance/ demonstration and a layered soundtrack. Its title, "Alchemy" references the term's use to describe the medieval science of chemistry that allows one to transform something special. It also is considered to be a lost art.
