We can see ourselves more than ever before. - John Logie Baird

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Artists’ interventions into television and strategies for self-broadcasting from the 1970s to today.

Doug Hall, Chip Lord, Jody Procter

Alistair Gentry

1. Bill Viola
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers, 1983
Broadcast television project
Videotape playback, color, stereo sound. Forty-four portraits, 30 seconds each, are broadcast in between television programs as unannounced inserts
Produced by WGBH-TV New Television Workshop, Boston
Photo: Kira Perov

2. Doug Hall, Chip Lord, Jody Procter
The Amarillo News Tapes, 1980
Photo: copyright the artists

3. Alistair Gentry
Nowhere Plains, 2005