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Video Journey Through Utopia

Author
Paul Ryan
Publication
Afterimage
Publisher
Visual Studies Workshop
Date
November 1999
Place
Rochester, New York
Volume
27
Issue
3
ETC archive
ETC2470

Abstract

The founder of the Raindance video collective, artist Frank Gillette, in a public statement in 1991, distinguished between the Fluxus current and the utopian current in video history.https://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_3_27/ai_58470196
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Paul Ryan. Video Journey Through Utopia. Afterimage. Visual Studies Workshop. November 1999.

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The founder of the Raindance video collective, artist Frank Gillette, in a public statement in 1991, distinguished between the Fluxus current and the utopian current in video history. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_3_27/ai_58470196

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