Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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YOUR A I the console of a futuristic space video game. Five enemy ships blink at you malevolently. You have 15 ships: if they get zapped you're out. You out number your opponent, but each of the enemy ships has five missiles. You naturally fuel threatened...
When U.T. decided to initiate its executive instruction project, it encountered resistance from some of the highly paid managers. But after Chairman Harry Gray issued a video-taped message saying that the training was a good idea, defenses crumbled. So far, about 310 U.T. officials have graduated from the course. Early company estimates of use have proved optimistic: less than 20% of executives employ their PC daily on the job; about the same number turn to it occasionally; only one manager said he did not want to use the computer...
...PERHAPS because of the ICA's somewhat mottled past, that the efforts of Ross this year to establish performance/installation art and video art displays have made such a splash in Boston art circles. Originally a video artist himself. Ross knows such well-known performance artists as Laurie Anderson. He has brought a totally different kind of background to his job at the ICA, and this first year has been one of new directions for the museum...
...David Ross is bringing more of the theatrical to the ICA, more performance art, the whole video situation. I expect the ICA will be at the forefront among purveyors of video art in this country. You'll be able to say you saw it at the ICA," says Peter Sellars '80, who along with graphic artist Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, and dancer Bonnie Zimmering '81, recently mounted the highly-acclaimed "Sudden Difficulties," a performance art installation...
...David Ross is not committed solely to performance and video art. "Art moves in all ways at all times," Ross says. "Art is not a single projection progression, that's a fallacy expounded by people who believe in dialectic progression in art. There is no single monolithic avant-garde. If there's a cutting edge in art, it's like a round razor--it cuts in all directions at once." Besides its spectacular "Art and Dance" performance series, and the popular series of video screenings, the ICA this year has offered several exhibitions of purely visual, stationary works...