That far away look [videorecording] / Tony Conrad. [1988]

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That far away look [videorecording] / Tony Conrad. [1988]

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"American video artist Tony Conrad argues persuasively (if somewhat tongue in cheek) in his videotape That far away look (1988) that the Japanese have been engaged in a process of obsessively transforming the three dimensional into the more manageable two dimensional for centuries. The largest pre-modern project, he argues, was to make flat rice fields in a mountainous terrain. The most recent project has been to turn everything flat so that it (the world) can be addressed - and controlled - through the screen of the monitor"--Peter Callas, "Some liminal aspects of the technology trade," 1990.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...

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