The oft-times contradictory story of EZTV is an example of how the recent past may be forgotten or misrepresented.
Speaker
Michael J. Masucci
Agenda
6:00pm - Welcome and introduction by Sean Clark
6:10pm - Michael J. Masucci
7:00pm - Discussion, followed by questions and answers
Synopsis
The process of remembrance involves many factors which mitigate and may deteriorate the accuracy and authenticity of a given subject. The complex, diverse, and oft-times contradictory story of EZTV is an example of how the recent past may be forgotten or misrepresented, even with the best of intentions.
Not to be confused with the better-known and illegal BitTorrent of the same name, EZTV began in 1979 in West Hollywood, California, initially as a way that independent artists could produce and present their own DIY no-budget analogue video productions. Within its first years it quickly expanded it base to welcome both computer artists and experimenters in telepresence and online exhibition.
Artists such as David Em, Paul Brown, Victor Acevedo and many others, often in collaboration with LA ACM SIGGRAPH, found EZTV to be a place to exhibit, discuss and meet. Curator/historian Patric Prince co-created CyberSpace Gallery there as an early on-going exhibition space dedicated to digital art.
About the speaker
Michael J. Masucci is an award-winning American artist, specializing in new media practices, including video, digital, sound and performance.
He is a founding member of the seminal Los Angeles-based art group EZTV (www.eztvmuseum.com) and its CyberSpace Gallery, among the world’s first galleries dedicated to digital art, which the Victoria & Albert Museum states “literally put digital art on the map”.
He recently co-created DNA Festival Santa Monica (dnafestivalsm.com) an annual series of events and exhibitions focused on digital and emergent technology arts. His work has been shown at the Getty, Kandinsky Library/Pompidou, REDCAT, SIGGRAPH, the ICA London & the AFI.
Image Credit: "MInd's Eye: 2020" still image from video documentation of live evening-length multimedia dance & projection performance.
Digital & Video Projections and Scenic Design: Michael J. Masucci; Choreographer: Zina Bethune; Dance Company: Bethune Theatredanse; Pepperdine University, 1988
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