Artpark 1977. The Program in Visual Arts

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  Electron Movers was a Providence video collective formed at RISD in the early 1970s by Robert and Dorothy Jungels, Dennis Hlynsky, Laurie McDonald and the author; RISD hosted workshops by Brice Howard and the Vasulkas and had acquired basic video gear in 1970. Incorporated in 1974 as Electron Movers, Research in the Electronic Arts Inc., they occupied a 2,500 sq ft loft, received an RI State Arts Council fellowship (Hlynsky) and an NEA fellowship (author), and pooled tools including a six-level George Brown mixer, Templeton colorizers, a Buchla synthesizer, editing gear, cameras and monitors. The group produced the interactive Video Maze (1974–76), staged dance/video installations and community workshops, and dissolved around 1978 with members continuing in documentary, production and institutional media roles.

• The Electron Movers: Research in the Electronic Arts, Inc Groups

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• Alan Powell People

  Alan Powell is a video artist who works collaboratively with Connie Coleman; he was an original member of the Electron Movers and has been active in the video art scene since its early days. He resides in Bucks County, PA, and is Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University and Director of the Undergraduate Production Sequence in Film/Media Arts; his works have been shown at The Kitchen, The Alternative Museum, The Museum of Moving Image, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Long Beach Museum and the Musee d'Arte Moderne in Paris, and have been broadcast on Swiss and Danish television as well as The Learning Channel and PBS in the United States.

• Connie Coleman and Alan Powell People

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  Site-specific installation Video Trail by Robert Jungels, Alan Powell and Laurie McDonald (members of Electron Movers) was presented at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. The catalog reports six 23" monitors were buried along the Ames Theater trail with only the screens exposed; they displayed close-ups of a tunnel spider and web, ripening berries, the sky through silhouettes of leaves, and people walking viewed from above.