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Media Arts, 1990, v. 2, no. 5 and 6, pp. 1-14
A complete issue of Media Arts issue 5 and 6 Vol., 2.
Editor's note: "At the last NAMAC Conference the media arts community grappled with the related but distinct subjects of teaching media arts and the use of media arts as educational tools. In this issue of MEDIA ARTS Robert Haller, a founder, long-standing Board member and seasoned veteran of NAMAC Conferences, offered his observation on the proceedings in Rochester. Accompanying his commentary are Laurien Alexandre's keynote address and the texts of two well-recieved presentations by panelists Coco Fusco and Christine Tamblyn..."
Articles include:
"Rochester Conference - Commentary" by Robert Haller,
"Giving Voice to the Silenced" by Laurien Alexandre,
"Does Culture Make a Difference in Media Education" by Coco Fusco,
"Video Criticism: Paradigms and Parasites" by Christine Tamblyn.
The issue also includes an artist interview with Dara Birnbaum by Robert Beck, as well as a commentary section on video art by Steve Soid.
ITEM 1990.068 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium – David Antin
Marshal McLuhan
Jean Baudrillard
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
The Work of the Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
Robert Beck
Dara Birnbaum
Steve Soid
Nam June Paik
Tony Conrad
Jan-Christopher Horak
Frantz Fanon
I...Rigoberto Menchu – Jamaica Kincaid
Rigoberto Menchu
The Closing of the American Mind – Ernesto Cardenal
The Black Woman from Brazil – Alan Bloom
Lilith Video Collection of Brazil – Silvana Afram
Lysustrata – Silvana Afram
100 Years of Solitude
Black Boy – Gabriel Marquez
Thias – Richard Wright
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
The Yellow Girl – James Watson and Mellvile Webber
Epic – James Waston and Mellvile Webber
The Fall of The House of Usher – Pablo Neruda
The Yellow Girl – Jan-Christopher Horak
Video Art: OId Wine, New Bottles – James Watson and Melville Webber
The Withering Away of the State of The Art – Alan Kaprow
The Radio As An Apparatus of Communication – Hollis Frampton
He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life – Bertolt Brecht
Jonas Mekas
Feeding the Baby – Raimund Abraham
Louis and August Lumiere
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alexander Hammid
Hollis Frampton
The American Narrative Film - Its Roots and Its Flowers – Bruce Elder
Andrew Sarris
Chambers – Peter Kubelka
Signature – Maya Deren
French Film Theory and Criticism – Maya Deren
Richard Abel
Sheila Di Vola Bergman
Ralph Mckay
Fred Camper
Scott MacDonald
Loretta Czernis
Scott Nygren
Faust – Marilyn Jull
Water and Power – Stan Brakhag
Ballet Macanique – Pat O'Niell
Entr'acte – Bill Moritz
Lichtspiel No. 1 – Bill Moritz
Ruttmann
Oskar Gramann
Jaoa Luiz Vieira
Artur Omar
Skylight – Rose Lowder
Chris Welsby
Magellan – Jack Chambers
Canon: Talking to the Streets – Hollis Frampton
Lesson Plans: To Keep Revolution Alive – Dara Birnbaum
(A) Drift of Politics – Dara Birnbaum
Laverne and Shirley – Dara Birnbaum
The Pop-Pop-Video – Dara Birnbaum
Kojak/Wang – Dara Birnbaum
Wonder Woman – Dara Birnbaum
Damnation of Faust – Dara Birnbaum
Evocation – Dara Birnbaum
Will-O-the-Whisp – Dara Birnbaum
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Plans – Dara Birnbaum
PM Magazine/Acid Rock – Dara Birnbaum
Fire! – Dara Birnbaum
Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry – Dara Birnbaum
Charming Landscape – Dara Birnbaum
Found a Cure – Dara Birnbaum
Ashford and Simpson
John Zieman
Robert Longo
Jack Goldstein
Ted Turner
John Maybey
Rich Fiest
Global Groove – Rhys Chatam
Fish Flies on Sky – Nam June Paik
TV Garden – Nam June Paik
A Man's Woman – Nam June Paik
Vault – Laura Kipnis
Clinic – Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
Dale Hoyt
Kaatje Cusse
Eric Siegel
Dan Sandin
Stephen Beck
Red Tapes – Bill Etra
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like – Vito Acconci
Bill Viola