Great distances make Canada a country where communication technologies are important. It was in Canada that the telephone was invented. The first radio broadcast of voice and music was made by a Canadian, Reginald Fessenden, and the first civil communications satellite was a Canadian project. Video was first used by artists in Canada in the early 1970s, inspired by the media theories of Marshall McLuhan. Since then a strong video culture has grown, with artist-run production centres across the country supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and local governments. The tapes in this selection are supplied by three distributors of artists’ videotapes, Videographe in Montreal, V/tape in Toronto, and Video Out in Vancouver. The program begins with three recent works by senior artists, and concludes with works by younger and emerging artists working mostly in Vancouver.
artists
Works
- In the Skin of Becoming SwanAlvin Erasga Tolentino, 1999
- It's Not Pretty Being EasyDuke and Battersby, 2000
- Matinee IdolHo Tam, 2000
- Variations on a Polypropylene WrapperJoel Taylor, Tricia Middleton, 2001
- Forced Being ForcedKim Dawn, 2001
- En Deçá du réelManon Labrecque, 1997
- Au revoirMark Curry, 2000
- A Can of PopMeesoo Lee, 2000
- A Good PhilosophyMeesoo Lee, 2000
- HistoryMeesoo Lee, 2000
- My SuicideMeesoo Lee, 2000
- RevolutionMeesoo Lee, 2000
- Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" StatementThirza Cuthand, 2000
- Episode 8: Avamuktalik (Fish Swimming Back and Forth)Zacharias Kunuk, 1995
Curator's text
Great distances make Canada a country where communication technologies are important. It was in Canada that the telephone was invented. The first radio broadcast of voice and music was made by a Canadian, Reginald Fessenden, and the first civil communications satellite was a Canadian project. Video was first used by artists in Canada in the early 1970’s, inspired by the media theories of Marshall McLuhan. Since then a strong video culture has grown, with artist-run production centres across the country supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and local governments. The tapes in this selection are supplied by three distributors of artists’ videotapes, Videographe in Montreal, V/tape in Toronto, and Video Out in Vancouver. The program begins with three recent works by senior artists, and concludes with works by younger and emerging artists working mostly in Vancouver.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, "13º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil": de 19 de setembro de 2001 a 23 de setembro de 2001, p. 165, São Paulo, SP, 2001.