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Video/TV: Humor/Comedy

Date
1982

Video/TV: Humor/Comedy, a touring video exhibition of Media Study/Buffalo, curated by John Minkowsky and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Catalog essay by John Minkowsky. Extensive catalog introductions for each of the themes, and notes about each artist in the collection.

Program developed from Minkowsky's design of a course in Video Comedy for Center for Media Study in 1981 and for the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982. The exhibition was divided into topics: Musical/Comedy (Pier Marton, Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, Greme Whifler and Renaldo and the Loaf, Twinart, Julis Heyward, Ernest Gusella, Kenn Beckman and Blue Gene Tyranny, Laurie Anderson and Davidson Gigliotti, Tony Oursler, Michael Smith, Dale Hoyt, The Kipper Kids. Video Pioneers (Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Ant Farm/TR Uthco.

Parody: Cultural TV Station (Alan Lande, Tony Mascatello, Tom Adair and Ken Robbins, Peter Brownscombe, General Idea, Laurie McDonald, Jeff Strate, William Wegman, Howard Fried, Jules Backus and Skip Blumberg, Ferris Butler. Likely Stories (Mitchell Kriegman, Tony Oursler, Willie Walker). The Magic Box (Alan Lande, Willie Walker, Michael Smith and Mark Fischer, Mitchell Kriegman, Brad Stensberg, Ed Tannenbaum, James Hartel, Willie Walker and TR Uthco).

Short Takes, One-Liners and Talking Heads (Tim Maul and Davidson Gigliotti, Teddy Dibble, Peter Keenan, Louie Grenier, Davidson Gigliotti, Michael Smith and Mark Fischer, Tim Maul, Dan Boord). Docucomedy (Dale Hoyt, Alan Lande, Bob and Bob, Doug Hall, Ilene Segalove). Epilogue/Bonus (The Kipper Kids). Distributors of works in the series were also listed and included, aside from the individual artists, General Idea, Electronic Arts Intermix, Art Metropole, Castelli-Sonnabend Tapes and Films.

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Video/TV: Humor/Comedy was a touring video exhibition organized by Media Study/Buffalo, curated by John Minkowsky and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; a catalog essay by Minkowsky and extensive thematic introductions and artist notes accompanied the exhibition. The program derived from Minkowsky's design of a Video Comedy course for the Center for Media Study in 1981 and for the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982; the exhibition was divided into thematic sections and listed contributing artists for each. Distributors of works in the series included General Idea, Electronic Arts Intermix, Art Metropole and Castelli-Sonnabend Tapes and Films.

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