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• Media Burn

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  Excerpt from a video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. Under the credits there is video of the burning television sets and participants throwing TV’s at the fire.

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  [The 90’s raw: Checkerboard Lounge, Van Gogh auction]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. The first half of the tape is from the Checkerboard Lounge on February 28, 1991. Angio relaxes and talks to patrons in the famous blues club Checkerboard Lounge on Chicago’s South Side. The exposure is pretty bad so faces don’t register well. The second half is tape of Van Gogh auction on March 10, 1991. Joe Angio goes to an auction house in Chicago where a recently discovered Vincent Van Gogh painting is being sold. Artist Tony Fitzpatrick accompanies him, interviews people attending the show and does some commentary of his own. “This isn’t about art, it’s about money. It seems like money can buy culture.” The painting sells for $1,300,000.

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  Image Union, episode 0503

  Image Union

  Compilation episode of Image Union featuring the work of Mike Tracy, Jay Miracle, and Davidson Gigliotti. Tracy’s “Backabout” is a film shown in reverse for comedic effect; Miracle’s “Any Family” is a documentary about a family who raises circus animals; and Gigliotti’s “Risk” is a performance piece.

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  [The 90’s raw: Money Man monument]

  Chicago, THE 90's, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. No sound for the first 19 minutes. A satirical piece conceived by Doug Michels featuring a mock meeting of fundraisers for the Money Man Monument, a skeleton in a suit placed in a plastic tube of money on Washington D.C.’s Mall–“a permanent tribute to green power and the American Way.” This tape has multiple takes of the actors performing.

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  Image Union, episode 0504

  Image Union

  Compilation episode of Imgae Union featuring the work of artists Paul Snajdr, Davidson Gigliotti, and Robert Millman. The latter two artists produced surreal art pieces for the episode.

• Declarations Of Independents, episode 109

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  0:00 KTCA

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  Image Union, episode 0210

  Ant Farm, Chicago, Image Union

  Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “Defense for Atomic Attack” by Allen Ross of Chicago Filmmakers, clips from “Media Burn” by Ant Farm, and “The Pope’s Visit” by Joseph McGarry.

• [Georgia O’Keefe]

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  0:00 Intro