Work Type:screening
Date of work:1993
Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:futurism, fantasy,
Technique:curating
Collection:Video Postive Archive 1989 - 2000
Description:
A compilation of work from British and American women artists using technology to explore futuristic fantasy scenarios and lived experiences which challenge the assumption that advanced technologies perpetuate a male-only culture. Including recent works by British artists such as Kathleen Rogers, who in The Art of Losing Memory traces the relationship between low-tech lace-making and high-tech computerised imaging. American artists Sandra Tait and Gretschen Bender have produced Volatile Memory. Starring Cindy Sherman, this proto-type cyberpunk fiction has strong overtones of William Gibson's contemporary novel classic Neuromancer.


Involuntary Conversion 9 mins Jeanne Finley (USA) 1991
The Art of Losing Memory 9 mins Kathleen Rogers (UK) 1991
Un-fit 1 min Jo Pearson (UK) 1992
Sleep 8 mins Catherine Elwes (UK) 1984
Volatile Memory 12 mins Sandra Tait/Gretschen Bender (USA) 1989
The Houses that are Left 54 mins Shelly Silver (USA) 1989
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Source:"Video Positive 93", festival catalogue
Date of source:1993