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Video as Art

Date
1987

Video as Art exhibition at the Cortland Arts Counciil Gallery. March 1-27, 1987. Guest Curator, Sherry Miller Hocking.

Videotape screenings and presentations by Philip Mallory Jones (What Goes Around/Comes Around, Soldiers of a Recent and Forgotten War, Extra Rooms, The Trouble I've Seen); Peer Bode (Invented Eye #1, Camel with Window Memory; Synthetic Series, Blindfields, Animal Migrations). Still image by Mary Ross and by Alan Powell and Connie Coleman. Video installation and presentation by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo (Momument).

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Exhibition Video as Art at the Cortland Arts Counciil Gallery ran March 1-27, 1987; guest curator was Sherry Miller Hocking. Videotape screenings and presentations featured Philip Mallory Jones (What Goes Around/Comes Around; Soldiers of a Recent and Forgotten War; Extra Rooms; The Trouble I've Seen) and Peer Bode (Invented Eye #1; Camel with Window Memory; Synthetic Series; Blindfields; Animal Migrations); still images were by Mary Ross, Alan Powell and Connie Coleman; video installation and presentation were by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo (Momument).

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