Albie Thoms b. 1941

  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Curator
Thoms was a theatre director, film maker and curator. Founder of Ubu Films, editor of Ubu News, co-founder of the Ginger Meggs Memorial School of Art, participant in the Yellow House, director of artists' documentaries and exhibition curator. He was an important figure in the Sydney Filmmakers’ Co-operative.
Tags: Ubu Films, Yellow House
creator of
Underground Media
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Underground media result from – a community concern to disseminate information not being transmitted by established media: hence underground newspapers, underground movies, underground tv.
They all appeared in the sixties, first emanating from New York, but now exist in all advanced capitalist systems …

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creator of
The Videosphere
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http://scanlines.net/node/756

Few people complaining about the rotten tv on the box realise they can get out and make their own …

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creator of
Yellow TV - AKAI Ghost Poems
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Videotape
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Yellow TV
Martin Sharp established the Yellow House in the old Terry Clune Gallery at 59 MacLeay St, Potts Point …

 
contributor to
TVX (UK)
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video collective
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http://scanlines.net/node/754

TVX was a British video workshop and research group that formed around some video equipment loaned by the Beatles and early versions of the 1/2” Sony portapak …

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