TVTV, ‘Adland’ (1974)
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David Hall
David Hall, ‘Tap piece’ from TV Interruptions (1971)
This is one of ten ‘TV Interruptions’ broadcast on Scottish Television unannounced and without credit in 1971.
Thomson & Craighead
‘Television Fan’ by Thomson & Craighead.
The fan blows onto VHS rustling leaves and every minute or so, a rhythmic cycle of flash frame images appear, taken from an old catalogue selling film washers. The fleeting glimpses of a woman presenting a wardrobe’s worth of machinery are reminiscent of a spangled magician’s assistant.
Jonathan Minard
‘Archive’ (2013) by Jonathan Minard
A documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.
Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
Stan Douglas
‘Monodramas’ (1987-1991) by Stan Douglas.
Douglass ‘Monodramas’, ten 30- to 60-second videos from 1991, conceived as interventions into commercial television, interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992.
Pierre Huyghe
‘Les Grands Ensembles’, by Pierre Huyghe
This video shows the reconstruction of an urban landscape in the late 1970s. In constant twilight, two towers converse in a strange code through the light from their windows, produced by the winking of television monitors.
Sorry about the quality, but be sure to watch through the end of the video.
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