Videoscape
Toronto Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 1974
The exhibition catalogue Videoscape was produced to accompany the first major survey of video art in Canada, held at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 1974, and curated by Peggy Gale. The catalogue contains a forward written by William C. Forsey, the Director of Education at the AGO, an introduction by Marty Dunn, and includes the essays "a new medium" by Peggy Gale, and "echoes from Videospace" by Garry Neil Kennedy, which give an overview of the exhibition, and discuss the trends and tropes in video art in Canada during the medium's early years.
The catalogue contains an extensive overview of Canadian video artists from across the country, as well as a few international artists significant to the development of the medium in the 1970s. In addition to a list of tapes screened during the exhibition, the catalogue provides information about each artist and their work. The catalogue also includes a bibliography listing readings and books written on video art from 1970 to 1974.
ITEM 1974.037 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Fill – David Askevold
Concert Cover – David Askevold
It's No Use Crying – David Askevold
My Recall of an Imprint from a Hypothetical Jungle – David Askevold
Halifax Notions – David Askevold
David Askevold
Learning about Cars and Chocolates – Dana W. Atchley
Instant Death – Jill Bellos
Created while Dr. Brute and I were at my home in Crested Buttle – Charles Binamé
Confessions – Robert Bowers
Mirror Meditations – Jean-Pierre Boyer
Réaction 26 – Eric Cameron
Orang-utang/Tree/Stone – Eric Cameron
Kiss/Contact/Mother – Collin Campbell
Le Chant magnetique – Doug Carbert
L'Amertube – Paul Casselman
Contact Piece: A Nude Model (Donna) – Yves Chaput
Insertion (an excerpt) – Barbara Cochrane
Janus – Stephen Cruise
California Myth/Reality – Don Druick
Love-Life – Marty Dunn
This is an Edit/This is Real – Ed Fitzgerald
Correspondence – General Idea (Ron Gabe, Jorge Saia, Michael Tims)
Art Star – Gerry Gilbert and Carol Itter
This is the way I really am – Goddamatch (Max M. Anderson, Bob Wilcox, Bruce Green, Gordon Reed, Robert Montgomery)
Sackville I'm Yours - An Interview with Art Star – Michael Goldberg
Hallway – Mousse Guernon
Photography '73 – Timothy A. Hanson
Video/Face/Space – Noel Harding
Video/Lengths – Michael Hayden
Video/Lullaby – Pat Kelly's Students
Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait Bon Dieu – Les Levine
Dance, Three Movements – Douglas MacLean
Turn – Richard Martin
Track – Terrence McGlade
Putting Through a Bullet – Ann McMillan
Id – Winston G. McNamee
Ox – Graham Metson
Spanish Tragedy – Robert Morris
Genesis – Cameron Morrison
You are the Message – Ian Murray
Color Video – Nam June Paik
Leaf/Ladder/Scale – Bruce Parsons
Light On Video – John Pope
Double Mirror Video – Al Razutis
Arts Stars in Hollywood - The Decca Dance – Alex Salter
Birthday – Richard Serra
Seconds – Percy Simmons
Killer Whales and Friends – Jeffrey Spalding
Childbirth – Lisa Steele
Libidante – David Tipe
Untitled – Brad Townsend
Three Pieces For Circuits – Visus Foundation
Wave – Vortex Intermedia
The Casual FI-flourish in the Font – Doug Waterman
Soan-Gaspé – John Watt
13 Spatial Definitions – William Wegman
The Greatest Hits of Les Levine – Jane Wright
Squa-circ – Walter Wright
Metamorphose – Jon Young
Sons Intérieurs
Frivolous
Waterfalls
Good Evening, Gentlemen
In Touch
Third Person Singular
Upon the Nature of Death
Exchange
Studies 21 and 22
Keeping on Top of the Top Song
Global Grove
Things Seen to The Left and Right
Ear to The Line
Fingers Oranga
Kohoutek
Software
Aurora
Vortex
98.3 KHz (Bridge at Electrical Storm)
Waveform
Reverse
Jump
Sweet Licks
Television Delivers People
Heartbeat
Scanning Lines
The Intention of This Tape...
Ross Street Tapes,Lisa with Egg,Sleep/Dream Vigil,Juggling
Felt-Room,Field-Sound,Tipe Tape #2
Screaming,Sharlene
Clouds
Suspension,Entropiscape
Shuffle
Split -Perceptual Process of Vision: Part 1,Choice-Perceptual Process of Vision: Part II,Peepers,Hypothetical Fornication, I'm a Killer
Dog Microphone/Dog Cape
Seascapes, Coloured Water
Synthesizer, Recent Works
Cup