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8th Annual Avant Garde Festival

Date
1971

8th Annual Avant Garde Festival at the 69th Infantry Regiment Armory. Organized by Charlotte Moorman. November 19.

Experimental Television Center exhibition "The Living Room", with continuous videotape screening. Included were premieres of the Paik/Abe and Siegel synthesizers, Video Ferris Wheel, by Shirley Clarke, Video Kinetic Environment, by the Vasulkas, and videotapes by Douglas Davis, Ken Dominick, Ralph Hocking, Tambellini, and the Videofreex. The Avant Garde Festival was a project of Electronic Arts Intermix.

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8th Annual Avant Garde Festival took place at the 69th Infantry Regiment Armory on November 19; it was organized by Charlotte Moorman. The Experimental Television Center presented an exhibition titled The Living Room with continuous videotape screening; the event included premieres of the Paik/Abe and Siegel synthesizers, Shirley Clarke's Video Ferris Wheel, the Vasulkas' Video Kinetic Environment, and videotapes by Douglas Davis, Ken Dominick, Ralph Hocking, Tambellini, and the Videofreex. The Avant Garde Festival was a project of Electronic Arts Intermix.

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