Hi Sarah
I don't know whether either of these are helpful - and I don't have time to think it through properly :) - but there was a rather splendid project by Christy Gast in 2008 inwhich I had a couple of pieces where she programmed artist video on a tiny community TVstation in the Utah desert for a year -interesting
echo of what was possible on Beeb2 & channel4 some while back...
http://www.kzmu.org/moabvideoproject/moab/about.html
If you'd like Christy's contact details mail me.
The other thing is there's some reflections by me ( not many and it's tangential to the main subject) on this topic in a review article in the ( I'm sure it's about to appear) new MIRAJ journal:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=207/
OH -and it's just occured to me - also I've been very disappointed with presentations
of artists film/video on the net which take the form of "channels" or
"broadcasts" - reminds me of the horrible hubris which afflicted the earliest days of videoblogging with people's "shows" which attracted all of three viewers and a dog for their first three days...
I would say this, of course, but the curated video platform Doron Golan and I have been nurturing since 2005
DVblog.org
seems to me to be a good way of "broadcasting" work - no tricks or stunts,
works archived on our server as QTs which some researcher will thank us
for one day ( probably after we're both dead), brief but I hope helpful contexting and all organised ( and paid for, I might add) by two video artists active in the trade as it were...
cheers
michael
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From: Sarah Cook <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:20 AM
Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] quick piece of research regarding artist's television
Hello CRUMB list
as you are all eminently smart about art and technology and the history of art I have a request.
There is a forthcoming publication from the Finnish Institute in London about artists' works and community television and I'm informally working with Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie to help them recontextualise their project TV Swansong. We'd like to gather some thoughts related to this project's place in history from you all, before the end of next week.
At the time (2002, a decade ago) TV Swansong was billed as:
"a cross-media art project which commissioned 8 new works reflecting on the current state of flux in television with idiosyncratic responses to its past, present and future." http://www.swansong.tv/
Some of you might remember the exhibition I cocurated with Kathy Rae Huffman on a similar topic - http://www.broadcastyourself.net/ - for AV Festival in 2008, which included TV Swansong's archive. A question we asked with Broadcast Yourself was how did we get here, to this moment of many online platforms for dissemination of broadcast work (the end of television?) - and what initiatives did artists take before this point.
So we are wondering the same thing again now: how do works which deal with the 'current state' of technology age?
How are works which were once live supposed to be exist within the history of art and technology in archived form?
Is television dead? Is artist's television dead? Was TV Swansong ever considered as community television, or indeed television at all (as it was webcast)?
Can artists continue to contribute in their work to discussions around community television and if so, how?
As this is an informal chat we welcome any and all responses, which, with your permission, we'd like to quote in the dialogues we hope to be included in the publication.
You can email back offlist if you like.
We've got til the end of next week... and we'll launch some regular monthly discussions on CRUMB after that.
Thanks all,
Sarah
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