Item is a video recording of the tele-performance Explaining Pictures to Dead Air by Clive Robertson. The performance was a live cablecast specifically created for the Fifth Network/Cinquiéme Réseau conference held in Toronto, Ontario from September 7-10, 1978. The title is a reference to a performance piece How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare presented by the German artist Joseph Beuys on November 26, 1965 at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. Robertson's performance was written specifically for the Fifth Network conference and asked the question: Would network news be any different if it was read by Joseph Beuys? The performance ends with a pre-recorded conversation between Robertson and Beuys on the topic of artists using television.
Item consists of a video recording by Roger Lewis entitled "A Portrait of Survival". This video is a collage portraiture of survivors of AIDS, Cancer, and Child Abuse. Due to the nature of some of the participant's conditions, all of their names are withheld to protect their anonymity within the video.
Item consists of a video by Douglas Waterman. An insert in the U-matic tape box describes the video as follows:
"A static electrical charge is generated by shuffling my clothed feet over an insulator, and by postponing contact with elements having characteristics which would operate as outlets for the charges being generated. The stored charge emits an electrical fields that draws the particles (ashes) toward it. A proportion of the charge from my hand jumps to the particles as the particles rise to and contact my hand. The particles have received an overcharge which opposes it to its source, so is driven back to its resting place. Dispersal time for the particles' energy is (approx. 10 sec.) allowing it to be activated again, initiating another cycle as the particles slowly spread out."
Items consists of two video works created by Tom Sherman : "TVideo" (1980) and "East on the 401", which was formerly titled "You can't watch television and drive a care at the same time" (1978). "TVideo" is a video performance where Tom Sherman discusses a fictional end to his career. The work was created in 1980 and was produced in Toronto, set in Montreal, and shot in Syracuse, New York. The work was originally created for broadcast on "Television by Artists", produced by John Watt and the Fine Arts Broadcast Service. "East on the 401" depicts driving on a highway from the driver's perspective, creating a trance-like quality.
Items consists of two video works created by Tom Sherman : "TVideo" (1980) and "East on the 401", which was formerly titled "You can't watch television and drive a care at the same time" (1978). "TVideo" is a video performance where Tom Sherman discusses a fictional end to his career. The work was created in 1980 and was produced in Toronto, set in Montreal, and shot in Syracuse, New York. The work was originally created for broadcast on "Television by Artists", produced by John Watt and the Fine Arts Broadcast Service. "East on the 401" depicts driving on a highway from the driver's perspective, creating a trance-like quality.
Item consists of four video works part of Videos are of Tele-video : Four Halifax artists : To Russia with love by Madelaine Palko (15 min., 45 sec.), Commercial by Andrea Birkets (3 min., 16 sec.), Information morning by David Short (6 min., 53 sec.) and Embodiments of mind 2 by Edward Slopek. Tele-video was screened by Centre for Art Tapes in 1981.
Item consists of four video works part of Videos are of Tele-video : Four Halifax artists : To Russia with love by Madelaine Palko (15 min., 45 sec.), Commercial by Andrea Birkets (3 min., 16 sec.), Information morning by David Short (6 min., 53 sec.) and Embodiments of mind 2 by Edward Slopek. Tele-video was screened by Centre for Art Tapes in 1981.
Item is a video created by Barry Burley in 1979. The video looks at the problems of the people of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979.
Item consists of two video works created by Edward Slopek in 1978 : Part 2 Coevolution Esse Est Percpi (28 min., 28 sec.), Part 3 Revolution (33 min., 20 sec.). The work reconstructs a psychological suspense drama. Video was produced in England.
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 Betacam SP videocassette created by Theodore Wan as part of installation at the Victoria General Hospital called Sculpture: Calling attention to a space. It was edited from Operating room scrub by Dalhousie University surgery department.
Item is a video work of a filmed performance by Theodore Wan called Operating room scrub, an installation by Victoria General Hospital called Sculpture: Calling attention to a space. It was edited from Operating room scrub by Dalhousie University surgery department. Case also contains postcard for installation as well as a note about the installation.
Item is a Betacam SP videocassette that contains two video works created by Dan Graham in 1976 : Past future split attention (17 min., 25 sec.) and Performer / audience / sequence (45 min. 11 sec.). The first work was performed in London's Lisson Gallery in March 1972. The performance is a project of restructuring space and time, where two people are in the same space, and while one predicts the other person's behaviour, the other recalls the other person's past behaviour. The second work was performed at Artist's Space, New York in January 1976. In this performance, Graham stands in front of a mirror, facing the audience, and tells the audience his movements and their meanings. Videocassette was dubbed from a U-matic sub-master to Betacam SP by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Centre for Art Tapes screened the work in 1979.
Item consists of three video works created by John Orentlicher and Tom Sherman created between 1978 and 1979. The video works are a series titled The black and white tapes and include : 2 + 1 +1, Because it's my image - Watching the leatherman, and She and she. Videos were screened by Centre for Art Tapes in 1980. The Centre for Art Tapes described the videos as the following: 2 + 1 + 1: a nude woman lies on a bed, stroking a dog that lies beside her. Voiceover is a description of sexual imagery repeated several times, first by a man, then a woman, then together. Because it's My Image - Watching the Leatherman: a black man gets dressed up in his leather gear, S &M Style. We hear him describing his garments, but the main audio is a voice that talks about television, voyeurism. She and She: a woman strips, gets into some kind of odd metal breastplate and codpiece, she skips the metal pieces. During this segment, a female voice talks about sharing space, the audience trusting the character and vice versa.
Item is a video performance where Tom Sherman discusses a fictional end to his career. The work was created in 1980 and was produced in Toronto, set in Montreal, and shot in Syracuse, New York. The work was originally created for broadcast on "Television by Artists", produced by John Watt and the Fine Arts Broadcast Service.
Item is a video work created by Edward Slopek in 1980. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work along with Trotz and videos by by Penny Brown. The video explores the correlation between the speed of neural wave patterns in the human brain and the repetitive qualities found in video signals.
Item is a video work about the labour struggle of South Shore fishermen and fish plant workers in Nova Scotia. The work is produced by Tom Burger and Bill McKiggan and screened at Centre for Art Tapes. Video was published by Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative.
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 consists of a compilation of video works featuring: "Untitled" by T. Young (7 min., 30 sec.), "The Trap" by D. Patterson (5 min., 40 sec.), "Pools of Time" by I. McKinnon (4 min., 50 sec.), "Das Booth" by C. Clark (14 min.), "Identity in Isolation" by B. Bailey (26 min.).
Item consists of a video recording of the "The Idea of the North" exhibition. The exhibition has been described as: "The Idea of North is a three-[art exhibition of contemporary art from Canada, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden that addresses the concept of the locality of sound. It is the result of a collaboration between curators in Canada (Rhonda Corvese), Iceland (Solveig Alda Halldorsdottir and Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir), and Norway (Yngvild Faeroy and Sossa Jorgensen). This collaborative curatorial process has brought together three diverse groups of artists in three distinct exhibitions in Norway, Iceland, and Canada, and each exhibition has included installations and sound art works from these countries in different configurations."
Item is a compact disc (CD-ROM) of exhibition material between CFAT and Eyelevel Gallery from October 16, 2010 - November 27, 2010; CFAT Electronics Residents 2009-2009, 2009-2010.
