Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...systematic and deeply imagined vision of a world as strangely alternate as Lewis Carroll's in Through the Looking Glass. If you dig into the swelling body of criticism about Barney, knowing references repeat themselves, from Joseph Beuys, the late German master of performance art and social spectacles, to video pioneer Vito Acconci to the powerful minimalist sculptor Richard Serra--each of whom dramatically reshaped the artistic landscape. Barney follows, doing what all visionary artists do: he creates a parallel universe that reflects something wholly novel about our own, though through a far narrower lens. His obsession...
...Mexico elementary school. These machines, which record the unique features of each human hand, were used to ensure that children were picked up from school only by an authorized person. In 1996 Sandia mounted its first major overhaul at the high school in Belen, N.M. Using a combination of video cameras, drug-testing kits, metal detectors, mobile Breathalyzers, ID badges and antigraffiti sealants, Sandia engineered a 90% drop in vandalism and theft, a 98% decrease in campus intruders, 95% fewer car break-ins and 75% fewer fights...
...just the Finns' phones we fancy. The Swedes use theirs to pay utility bills. The French use them to check flight schedules, reserve hotel rooms and scan the traffic along Le Peripherique. This month marks the birth of the mobile video phone. Where? Japan...
Many MTV viewers probably don't know their Puccini from their Plutarch, but as the cable network's video music awards, with Chris Rock as host, will be held at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House on Sept. 9, several artists were invited to get with the venue. JANET JACKSON reigns as Cleopatra from Handel's Giulio Cesare, OZZY OSBOURNE plays the sad clown from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and teen queen BRITNEY SPEARS blooms as Violetta from Verdi's La Traviata. Photographer Mark Seliger says the opera music played during the shoots was tolerated to varying degrees. "It didn...
...weeknight) on Sept. 27. "I can't honestly say there will be huge differences" between Headliners and existing shows, concedes executive producer Tim Uehlinger. "It's taking what Biography does so well and Behind the Music does so well another step forward." But he hopes to use NBC's video archives to turn around episodes quickly in response to news events, in addition to a regular lineup of more time-consuming, in-depth newsmaker and entertainer profiles...