ABORIGINAL PROGRAMMING The following transpired between Lester Bostock and Arinmarie Chandler as a lead in to the Aboriginal Television forum at the Festival. Lester Bostock is an executive of Koori Productions, an Aboriginal Film Unit. He has worked as a consultant and advisor across the board on Aboriginal issues.
The Australian Video Festival, 1987. SCRATCH VIDEO INSTALLATION DIRECT FROM BRITAINCurator: Brian Langer
1987 Australian Video Festival Co-ordinator: Sally Couacaud, Assistant Co-ordinator: Kate Goodnow
The sixth and last in the series of video festivals initiated and managed by the Electronic Media Arts (Australia) organisation.
The third Australian Video Festival was held at the Powerhouse Museum and included a program of video works from a wide range of local and international artists. The festival presented a retrospective of works by Bill Viola and a program of Scratch Video (cut-up style video collages) from the UK....
In 1985 the video scene in Sydney had reached a point where there were enough people making video works - whether art, documentary, video music or computer graphic - to begin to make it important and possible to have a collective show of recent works.
A travelling exhibition drawn from video works shown within the Australian Video Festival 1986. Project co-ordinator: Brian Langer Catalogue Design: Eddy Jokovich Introduction
[2nd AVF catalogue, p.84] VIDEO ART Simon Biggs - Le Desir (Prisoners)Addresses notions of difference (sexual, psychological) suspending distinctions through a poetic and associative approach to the media. Mark Boswell - How to Prevent Scurvy with LimesA social study shot in the inner suburbs of Melbourne.
