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- Title
- Video void: 1990s
- Author(s)
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Tofts, Darren
- Abstract
- In his book Mutant Media (2007) John Conomos discusses the possibility of a reclusive narrative, a narrative yet to be written. That narrative, of local video art in Australia, remains as elusive today as it was in 1994, when Nicholas Zurbrugg asked a similar question. Zurbrugg was writing on the cusp of the emerging paradigm of interactive media art, Conomos at a time when the fervour of new media had all but disappeared. Perhaps somewhere between these two poles of anticipation and longing we may find some answers to a persistent question, but also to the question of why we keep asking it in the first place: why is the history of Australian video art as yet unwritten?
- Publication type
- Seminar, speech or other presentation
- Source
- Paper presented at Video Void: Australian Video Art 1970s, 1980s & 1990s as part of the 2010 CCP Lecture Series, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 17 November 2010
- Publication year
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
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Australia;
History;
Video art
- Publisher
- Centre for Contemporary Photography
- Publisher URL
- http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series.php
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010.
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