Night Flight - The Video Artist Season 1
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Uploaded by dean358 on Nov 25, 2009
"Night Flight - The Video Artist" In the 1980s the big three broadcast networks commanded most of the TV viewers in the USA. Those brand new cable network thingies would, of course, never compete with the real networks. (OK, bad call. Maybe not as bad as Decca not signing the Beatles, but still a bad call :-) The cable networks lack of money and viewers gave birth to programming that was a huge departure from what the networks were airing from MTV to a show called Night Flight, which showed up Friday and Saturday nights on the brand new USA Cable Network.
Curated by Stuart Shapiro, a NYC hipster with a PhD from Stanford, Night Flight played mad cool segments about art and culture and the 1980s downtown scene, including: New Wave Theater, Love That Bob (Church of the Sub-Genius) and The Video Artist - A segment covering artists working in the then-new world of video and computer graphics.
This episode from the first season of the Video Artist (1983?) featured Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and myself discussing two of our pieces, Tempest and Voyage. In addition to the on camera interviews, the show played both pieces in their entirety. You can find both of them posted on the Dean358 channel for your viewing pleasure. Looking at this interview today its kinda embarrassing, but hey--at least Im not holding a keyboard-playing cat :-)
P.S. For those of you that had the privilege of piloting linear editing systems you may remember SC/H phase: check out the H Shifts in the opening title sequence. LOL Like the punch line from my fav joke: Dont give me sub carrier, give me 358!!
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hey in the opening there is a clip of a guy with the words not here under his chin i think that is from a music video I've been trying to remember could you tell me what that's from or who the band is thanks Kim
grimisstacks 1 year ago
@grimisstacks: I believe that's Eric Bogosian. At the time he was a downtown NYC performance artist, so it may not be a music video. BUT, it's been a zillion years since I made that opening (and I don't like to admit to it, given al the H shifts in the edits :-)
dean358 1 year ago