Items consist of 2 videocassettes with two separate recordings, "Cheyenne" (1986) by Liz MacDougall, Andy Dowden and "Self-Hypnosis" (1985) by Doug Porter
Item is a video work created by Kou Nakajima in 1984. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work as part of the Ottawa International Festival of Video Art exhibition series. Footage processed by Aniputer is of Kou Nakajima workshop.
Item is a video created by Dean Johnstone as part of a Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Project. Lighting by David Wigmore and Effects: B. McCarvell Performers include: Buell, Cole, Cousins, Genge, Johnstone, McCarvell, McInnis, Mclean, Parslow, Picard, Pidgeon, Semple, Steward, Wigmore.
Item consists of a video recording by Ron Gerold. The original video description by the Centre for Art Tapes state: "Three woman are posed in shadow against a photographer’s backdrop. When the photographer and his client leave the studio, the women step off the stage and “come to life”. The photographer, having forgotten is book, returns unexpectedly and the women quickly jump back onto the stage to resume their motionless stances. He sense something and approaches one of the woman who again, “comes to life”. They fall in love."
Item is a video work created by Dawna Proudman, Rozanne LePine, Tradewinds Film Co-op (Ottawa) in 1982. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work as part of International Women's Week programming in 1982. The video documents the production of a play which is a socially conscious study of black immigrant women working in domestic situations. The director and producer teach these non-actors how to emote, react, etc. There are also brief clips of the actual play.
Item consists of three different video works: Artist Touch, U Can Rail, and Art Kik Power. Popular Projects is a non-profit society dedicated to using theatre and performance for social change. Structured as advertisements, Commercial Culture uses satire to expose the dire effects of increased state intervention on the arts. Commercial Culture was produced for a National Forum on Canadian Culture.
Item consists of three video works : Artist Touch; U Can Rail; and Art Kik Power. Popular Projects is a non-profit society dedicated to using theatre and performance for social change. Structured as advertisements, Commercial Culture uses satire to expose the dire effects of increased state intervention on the arts. Commercial Culture was produced for a National Forum on Canadian Culture.
Item consists of three video works : Artist Touch; U Can Rail; and Art Kik Power. Popular Projects is a non-profit society dedicated to using theatre and performance for social change. Structured as advertisements, Commercial Culture uses satire to expose the dire effects of increased state intervention on the arts. Commercial Culture was produced for a National Forum on Canadian Culture.
Item consists of a compilation tape with multiple video recordings by Bobby Nock. The tape features: "Introduction", "Red Bush in Waycobah", "Red Paint in Waycobah", "Blue Bush in Waycobah" and "Poverty P.S.A.".
Item consists of a video recording by Amber Phelps Bondaroff entitled "Cricetus Explorporator". The video is about a hamster in a wheel explains his invention, the “cricetus exploraporator,” and its implications for the future
Item is a video work by Mark Verabioff in 1985. Video was part of the Life like it: Some Halifax video screening. Video was produced by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Item is a second generation copy, copy number 2. Crossing the 49th is a narrative fantasy dealing with the notion that the total population of Canada could be swapped with the entire American gay population. The tape uses several methods to address this fantasy: blue American and red Canadian lips share ideas; keyed text in the guise of airport codes and clauses float across the screen; sections of slow-moving, bleached-out shots help create a dreamy effect that runs the entire length of the tape.
Item consists of a video compilation portfolio by Mark Berabioff with four individual works, including "Crossing the 49th." Crossing the 49th is a narrative fantasy dealing with the notion that the total population of Canada could be swapped with the entire American gay population. The tape uses several methods to address this fantasy: blue American and red Canadian lips share ideas; keyed text in the guise of airport codes and clauses float across the screen; sections of slow-moving, bleached-out shots help create a dreamy effect that runs the entire length of the tape.
Items consist of a video recording by Stepka Ammon entitled "Cultural Perception and Culture Clash: a Look from Germany". The video is of a Centre for Art Tapes visiting forgeign artist Stepka Ammon who presented a screening of several German video artists in 2006.
Item consists of a video recording compilation by Daniel Olsen featuring: "Printer’s Devil" (3 min., 7 sec.), "I, Daniel, Say “Mama”’ (4 min., 24 sec.), and "Forty-Eight and Half" (48 min., 30 sec.).
Item consists of two video recordings, one by Chris Mulligan entitled "Danse carree" which is described as "a delightful musical animation merging computer imaging with photographic collage." The other video recording is by Sea Level Communications and Bob Zimmerman entitled "Bond security systems".
Item consists of a video recording entitled "Decoding the Undertow" by Colin MacKenzie. The video is a rough edit of the documentary making of a dance piece.
Items consists of a video recording by Claire Hodge entitled "Decoupage". The video features 12 looping video segments, each a cut derived from a sequence of Fracois Truffaut’s film, “Shoot the Piano Player”, which are played simultaneously.
Item is a video work created by Dean Brousseau in 1984. Dinner is an experimental documentary using a universal family event as its focus.Framed in snap-shot style, the video seems to arbitrarily “crop off” the participants, saving anonymity. This tape allows the viewer to concentrate on details of inpromptu etiquette and casual conversation around the dinner table, until, in the end, as with any family event, the camera is brought out to take pictures. On the cue “okay, smile!” the photographs taken are tossed one by one into the video frame, revealing at last the dinner participants in fuzzy Polaroids.
Item consists of a video recording entitled "Distant Voices" by Barbara Badessi. In "Distant Voices", Badessi she links her contemporary experiences as an immigrant with the historic influx of immigrants arriving at Pier 21 in Halifax between 1928 and 1971. Badessi herself emigrated to Canada from her native Italy in 1985.
Item consists of a video recording by Chantal Tardiff entitled "Documentation Part 1". The video was produced as a part of the CFAT Electronics Residency 2009.
Item consists of a video recording by Doug Porter showing works created from 1990 to 1998. The tape features: "Time has to Image" (8 min., 40 sec.), "I’d Like to Move On, If I Could Please" (5 min., 8 sec.), "Walkers" (23 min., 6 sec.) and "Run Into Peace" (14 min., 29 sec.).
Item consists of a video recordings by Doug Porter of works created from 1990 to 1998. The tape features: "Losing Sleep" (14 min.) and "A Disturbance of Shadows" (25 min.).
Item is a video of performance recorded by Centre for Art Tapes of Clifton Joseph member of the group Dub Poets, backed by members of Halifax thriving reggae and rasta community.