Saturday, Feb 22, please join us for a book launch and conversation on the publication “The New Television: Video After Television”. The conversation will be between Ed Halter, Joshua Gen Solondz, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Rebecca Cleman.

The event will also be livestreamed on @artbookps1!

Followed by Q&A

Order copies at artbookstores.com.

The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some of which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims.

This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives.

Time: 4:00-6:00 pm EST

Free!

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