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Video Becomes Us

Season 1 2018

  • 2018-10-08T13:00:00Z on ABC (AU)
  • 10m
  • 50m (5 episodes)
  • Australia
From the video art pioneers of the 1970s experimenting with Sony Portapaks to the current generation of artists exploring VR technology, Australian artists have long embraced video's radical potential.

5 episodes

Series Premiere

2018-10-08T13:00:00Z

1x01 Cinema

Series Premiere

1x01 Cinema

  • 2018-10-08T13:00:00Z10m

Reko Rennie, Soda_Jerk and Amos Gebhardt mine cinematic history to frame new representations of race, gender and cultural identity.

2018-10-08T13:00:00Z

1x02 Music Video

1x02 Music Video

  • 2018-10-08T13:00:00Z10m

The 1980s saw the rise of the music video and a new generation of MTV obsessed artists. We explore the influence of the music video on Australian video art through the work of The Kingpins, Sue Dodd and Darren Sylvester.

2018-10-08T13:00:00Z

1x03 The Internet

1x03 The Internet

  • 2018-10-08T13:00:00Z10m

We now live as much online as we do offline. We are part human, mostly smartphone. Artists Xanthe Dobbie, Joe Hamilton and Club Ate work at the interface of art and the internet.

2018-10-08T13:00:00Z

1x04 Documentary

1x04 Documentary

  • 2018-10-08T13:00:00Z10m

Often what is left out of frame is as significant as what is told. Vernon Ah Kee, James Nguyen and Susan Norrie use the documentary mode to critique sociopolitical realities.

2018-10-08T13:00:00Z

1x05 Performance

1x05 Performance

  • 2018-10-08T13:00:00Z10m

Video was made popular in the 70s as a wave of social movements swept the world. Fifty years on, Caroline Garcia, Dr Christian Thompson and Angela Tiatia unite the personal and political through performing for the camera.

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