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- Title
Unfamiliarity and difference: The challenges of supporting arts activity in a new medium.
- Authors
Knight, Julia
- Abstract
Video technology had a relatively brief lifespan, but like digital it was once a new media technology. This article revisits the newness of video in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explore the challenges it posed for supporting and promoting video art in Britain - including developing and funding a video infrastructure, creating an identity for video art and sustaining a video specific identity in the face of technological and social change. Aspects of this history resonate with the more recent history of digital technology and the article concludes that video can be understood as digital's forerunner.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ART history; VIDEO art; 20TH century video art; VHS (Video format); VIDEO recording; DIGITAL technology; HISTORY
- Publication
Moving Image Review & Art Journal, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1/2, p38
- ISSN
2045-6298
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/miraj.6.1-2.38_1