"Video Art: What It Is" Panel

May 10, 1997 (1 PM) Cooperstown Art Association

Video Art & Music Festival Schedule 1997

This
is a .jpg file of the panel discussion held May 10, 1997.
BORDER=2> </center><P>The above picture is of
panelists, from right to left: William Laziza, Mary Ann
Kearns, and Kathleen Laziza. <H5><I>Photo by Frank
Rollins.</I></H5><P><H3><I>A
panel of artists, presenters and curators will discuss the
history of Abstract and Non-narrativevideo art and its
relationship with our culture. Individuals will address
specific issues. Questions will beentertained. The panel will
be videotaped for exhibition to a group of Arts Presenters
sponsoredthe New York State Council on the Arts on May 12,
1997. Excerpts will be broadcast on cable television.Open to
the public.</I></H3><P><H2
ALIGN=CENTER>PANELISTS</CENTER></H2><P><H4>BOB
DOYLE, <I>Ex-Program Director of the Visual Studies
Workshop in Rochester, NY,currentPhD. candidate in Media
Studies at Syracuse University, artist and curator. </I>
Bob will discuss thehistory of the Visual Studies Workshop's
video art collection as well as its initiatives in the
community.He will also talk about recent curatorial work with
the Everson Museum and Synapse video artcollections in
Syracuse. </H4><P><H4>MARY ANN KEARNS,
<I>Founder of the 911 Gallery, an internet digital art
gallery representingsome of the nation's most prominent
digital graphics artists. Her Master's thesis is on the workof
pioneer video artist Nam June Paik. She is organizing an
exhibition at the National Gallery of Art inWashington, DC
this summer.</I> Mary Ann will discuss the internet and
art and the future of artist'swork in this new virtual
domain.</H4> <P><H4>KATHLEEN LAZIZA,
<I>Dancer, choreographer, presenter and cable television
producer, she and WilliamLaziza exhibit video art at Promote
Art Works and have curated

KATHLEEN LAZIZA, dancer and co-director of Promote Art Works, will discuss how her dance career combines with her media activities and how her work has been affected by video performance.

WILLLIAM LAZIZA, Video artist and co-director of Promote Art Works. William will discuss his philosophy of abstract imaging as well as entertain questions relating to the broadcast of video art in cable television.

MARY ANN KEARNS, director of the 911gallery and video historian, will discuss the origins of video art and how the art world relates to it.

CAROL GOSS, WALTER WRIGHT and EUGENE MARTYNEC will be setting up their respective studios for the evening performance of "Live Blue Light" in the same space as the panel and so will be available to participate in the discussion.

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