Critical Writing Index

The Grammar of the Video Image

by Eric Cameron

Arts Magazine, Dec. 1974, v. 49, no. 4, pp. 48-51

Eric Cameron discusses the video work of faculty and student artists from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971. Explorative and diverse, this group of artists create a didactic language of academic video art, focusing on theoretical speculation, all the while breaking new ground in video.

ITEM 1974.021 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

13 Spatial DefinitionsPatrick Kelly

Strip UpPatrick Kelly

CatchPatrick Kelly

Video Birthday Party of John CageShigeko Kubota

Video TracingBrian McNevin

133 Days in HalifaxHarold Pearse

SmileAlbert McNamara

Front and BackRichards Jarden

Length 4Gerald Ferguson

Inhale ExhaleDouglas Waterman

StepWallace Brannen