The New Television: A Public/Private Art: Preface

Fred Barzyk, Douglas Davis, Gerald O?Grady, Willard Van Dyke

1977

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The New Television: A Public/Private Art

In this two-page introduction to the publication The New Television: A Public/Private Art, the organizers discuss the Open Circuits conference, which they describe as fulfilling a "need both for an occasion and a catalyst," and which functioned as "a provocation, not a pacifier." They also discuss the changes in video art that took place between the 1974 conference and the publication of this book, three years later. They point out the ?mercurial pace of activity since 1974? and state that by 1977, there were ?video collections and exhibitions in almost all the major museums of contemporary art in Europe and the United States.? They conclude that ?Video is no longer the province of a few pioneers; it is becoming as common as pencil or paint.?