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From the Academy to the Avant Garde

Date
1981

From the Academy to the Avant Garde, a traveling exhibition produced by Visual Studies Workshop, 1981. Curator Richard Simmons. Catalog introduction Arthur Tsuchiya. Exhibition at VSW December 2-16, 1981 and at the Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia January 22-February 8, 1982.

Videotapes in order of viewing Howard Fried (Making a Paid Political Announcement), Davidson Gigliotti (Difficult Music), Juan Downey (Through the Looking Glass), Tony Labat (Challenge: P.O.V.), Frank Gillette (Symptomatic Syntax), Les Levine (Visions from the God World, (Part 1)).

Summary

From the Academy to the Avant Garde was a traveling exhibition produced by Visual Studies Workshop in 1981; it was curated by Richard Simmons with a catalog introduction by Arthur Tsuchiya. The exhibition was shown at Visual Studies Workshop December 2-16, 1981 and at the Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia January 22-February 8, 1982. Videotapes were presented in the following order: Howard Fried (Making a Paid Political Announcement); Davidson Gigliotti (Difficult Music); Juan Downey (Through the Looking Glass); Tony Labat (Challenge: P.O.V.); Frank Gillette (Symptomatic Syntax); Les Levine (Visions from the God World, (Part 1)).

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"From the Academy to the Avant Garde." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/academy-avant-garde-0.

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