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The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
ALLAN VIZENTS – ASLEEP AND AWAKE (1983)
 
Structural PremiseFour video tapes will play back from separate decks into separate monitors …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
Dominik Barbier The Red Shield (1987)Curated by Brian Langer
Introduction …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
SCRATCH VIDEO INSTALLATION DIRECT FROM BRITAINCurator: Brian Langer
Artists:George BarberDuvet BrothersJohn Scarlett DavisKim FlitcroftSandra GoldacherSteve HawleyJeffrey HintonJohn MayburyGeorge SnowTom SteygerGorilla Tapes
It is difficult to say who originated the term but obviously there are analogies between the scratch music of New York and the emerging visual style of a group of English video makers …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
TAPES FROM EUROPEA Programme of Video Creation: Curated by Brian Langer
In Europe, with the increase and development of Video Festivals in the mid 80’s and the desire among many video artists to find a wider audience for their work, has come renewed interest in Video An exhibition and distribution, by producers, broadcasters and the “new” and rare theorists of this new art form …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
Terrorising the Code – Recent U.S …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
VIDEO FROM JAPAN
The Absence of Reflection: Video, Lunacy and Post-culture Japan.Alfred Birnbaum, Peter Callas (Curators)
“The moon is the oldest television.“1 Autumn is traditionally moon-viewing time in Japan …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987
Video from South-East AsiaThroughout South East Asia video is emerging as a vital tool, both as a means of democratic communication between people, particularly in countries where forms of expression are limited due to political constraints, and as a means of authentic communication of events and concerns of Asian communities to people in industrialised countries, such as Australia.
Lack of equipment and resources, however, means that video production is still limited to a few key groups …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM – Introduction
VOICE AND MEMORY
[Author unknown1]
The relationship between the video maker and the video viewer is potentially quite distinct from that between readers and writers in other time based media and also separate from the modes of address prevalent in other art forms …

The Australian Video Festival, 1987.
DENNIS DEL FAVERO AND FILEF – LINES OF FIRE
Geoffrey Batchen
State terrorism is an issue which many artists might consider to be too hot to handle …

Australian Video Festival Commercials (1987), 2 × 00:30 mins, Sydney.
CVI imagery used as call for entries for the Australian Video Festival …

You don’t tend to find too many women working in high technology …