Because there are so many videotape, film, environmental and performance projects involved in the biennial, many with audible components, the purely aural works are embraced in the whole lively and variously gesticulating mass.
"Generation Loss," a new exhibit that I've co-curated with Winston Atkins, Preservation Officer, presents just a few of the many videotape formats introduced during the 20th century and collected in Duke University Libraries, as well as the signs of their deterioration and the factors that contribute to their loss.
Steeped in the literature of James Joyce, the music of Beethoven and the Latin classics learned during his Jesuit education, Mr. Gillette's many early videotapes ("Hark! Hork!," "Rituals for a Still Life," "Quidditas") are charged with the life of the mind.
Most of the conversations between the informant and his targets were recorded, and many were videotaped.
Officers confronted the group and distributed plastic handcuffs, but then accompanied them downtown, with many officers videotaping and photographing demonstrators.
We allowed Mr. Merrow and his team to spend many hours videotaping our school as well as interviewing me on camera.
For many, the videotape of the King beating was overdue vindication, proof at last that they had been telling the truth when they accused LAPD officers of brutality, especially in their treatment of black male suspects.
Many of the videotapes the store sends out are very difficult to replace, and he sometimes finds it nerve-racking sending those videos out to unknown customers.
Now for the first time many of these videotapes, dating from the late 1980's through the mid-90's, have been collected in a program of screenings at the Guggenheim Museum, titled "Fever in the Archive: AIDS Activist Videotapes from the Royal S. Marks Collection".
