Douglas Davis

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All Circuits On: Remembering Douglas Davis and Paul Ryan
Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:30 pm

Anthology Film Archives and EAI once again fired up the occasional series All Circuits On to pay homage to recently departed media artists and theorists Douglas Davis and Paul Ryan, both of whom were major figures in the Marshall McLuhan-influenced dawn of video and personal television that All Circuits On was created to celebrate.
 
ALL CIRCUITS ON. Program #1: Video 101: Touch Your Television
Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York City

Thursday, May 24, 2007, 8:00 pm

This was the first program in ALL CIRCUITS ON, a series produced in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives. Exploring both institutions' archives, the series presents rarely-screened works from the early days of video art. The first program looked at early artists' experiments with television. Works in the program examined at how television and video work, presented new ways of critiquing the medium, and proposed new uses for the technology. Viewers learned how video can be used as a tool, for the freeing of information and the creation of a healthy media ecology.
 
EAI AT ROOFTOP FILMS
Automotive High School (AHS) 50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

July 29th, 2005, 8:30 pm

EAI and Rooftop Films collaborated on a screening of works involving direct television intervention. Rooftop films is a community-oriented film festival whose mission is to "bring the underground outdoors."