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Creative Artists Public Service Program

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1983

CAPS exhibition at Downtown Community TV Center. May 10, 1983.

Excerpt by Jim Hoberman (The Village Voice, May 8, 1983): "CAPS Winners: Both 1984 CAPS fellows, Abby Luby and Barbara Rosenthal are radically different video artists. Luby uses computer graphics and processed images to make "electronic tapestries"; Rosenthal documents victims of cancer and concentration camps. The program is a benefit for famine relief in East Africa. May 10, Downtown Community TV Center."

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"Creative Artists Public Service Program." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/creative-artists-public-service-program-3.

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CAPS exhibition at Downtown Community TV Center on May 10, 1983; record includes an excerpt by Jim Hoberman published in The Village Voice on May 8, 1983. The excerpt identifies 1984 CAPS fellows Abby Luby and Barbara Rosenthal; Luby uses computer graphics and processed images to make electronic tapestries, while Rosenthal documents victims of cancer and concentration camps. The program was presented as a benefit for famine relief in East Africa.

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