Tech-knowledge [videorecording] / by Nancy Buchanan. [1984]

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Tech-knowledge [videorecording] / by Nancy Buchanan. [1984]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123502388

Utilizing video as well as archival footage of typically midwestern subjects, from family and automated farms to breweries to hatcheries, then subjecting each section of the videotape to image-processing, Buchanan highlights technological inventions that provide cost effective processes by removing human involvement from many elements of labor. The piece poses a philosophical question of the role of the individual in society.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. archival master.1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. copy master.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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Buchanan, Nancy, 1946-

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Nancy Buchanan (b. Nancy Page Ridenour, Aug. 30, 1946, Boston, MA) is an artist best known for her work in installation, performance, and video art. She played a central role in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Her father was physicist Louis Ridenour. Buchanan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. at the University of California, Irvine and studied with Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, David Hockney, and Robert Irwin. Buchanan has made videos and performances that combine the personal and t...