Synopses & Reviews
Italy was a vibrant center of video art production and experimentation throughout the 1970s and 1980s, attracting artists from all over the world and laying the foundation for video art as a concept in the global art and film communities. With vibrant illustrations, compelling interviews, and essays by leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights Italy's key place in the history of video as an art form.
About the Author
Laura Leuzzi is an art historian and curator whose research focuses on the relationship between words and image in visual art and new media. She was a research fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, REWINDitalia, based out of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.
Stephen Partridge is an artist, academic researcher, and pioneer of Early British video art. He is Professor of Media Art at the University of Dundee and co-editor (with Sean Cubitt) of Rewind: British Artists' Video in the 1970s and 1980s.
Table of Contents
Video recording in Bologna / Video-recording a Bologna, Renato Barilli
Memory of video: Italy in the Seventies / Memoria del video: Italia anni Settanta, Silvia Bordini
The Video Library - The Classification/La Videoteca - La Classificazione, Luciano GiaccariCentro Video Arte of Palazzo dei Diamanti / Il Centro Video Arte di Palazzo dei Diamanti, Lola Bonora
art/tapes/22. Conversation with Maria Gloria Bicocchi/art/tapes/22. Conversazione con Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Cosetta G. Saba and Mirco Infanti
Interview with Maria Gloria Bicocchi / Intervista a Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Stephen Partridge and Laura Leuzzi
The Video Season / La stagione del video, Paolo Cardazzo
Italian Reaction to Video / La reazione italiana al video, Simonetta Fadda
Symbols and Materials: Notes on Three Artists Working in Video in Venice in the 1970s / Simboli e materiali: alcune note su tre artisti che hanno lavorato col video a Venezia negli anni Settanta, Grahame Weinbren
Some notes on Luca Maria Patella's videotapes / Alcune note sui videotape di Luca Maria Patella, Laura Leuzzi
Authorship, collaborations and international contaminations - Videoperformance in Italy in the '70s / Autorialit