Frame by Frame (1988), low band U-matic, PAL, 8:55mins
Video: Jason Gee, Brad Miller; Music: Garry Bradbury
Rhythmic, cut-up, “scratch” style video edited to similarly cut-up, sampled music. Composited from black and white and colourised images of found/appropriated footage and 3D constructed imagery mixed and keyed in multiple overlay.
A wide ranging anti-capitalist, anti-American explosion covering the technology of militarism, mass media communications, computerisation, AIDS, torture and the American exploitative attitude to its own people and the world in general. [SJ]
Shown at:
1988:
88 on the Water, Pier 2 & 3 Walsh Bay, Sydney.
Super 8 & Video 8 Festival, Artspace, Sydney.
Cut and Tuck, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.
Sirens, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.
VideoDome, The Gunnery
1989:
Montbelliard Video Festival, Montbelliard, France.
Festival of Performing Arts, Dunedin, Scotland.
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
Cultures, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA.
Australian Perspecta, Curated by Gary Warner, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1990:
The First Australian Electronic Media Arts Conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Video from Australia, Stadtgarten, Koln, Germany
1991:
Australian Video Festival, Sydney.
Electric Image, Video Positive, New Tate Gallery, UK.
