Artist Statement
Mediaselect programme
1976, 15′, b/w
The work is consisted of three pieces of “This is A Camera”, “This is A Monitor”, and “To See The Frame”. This is the first of the trilogy of video semiology which analyzes in detail the dialectic of words and images in video (The other two pieces are “Observer / Observed”, 1975 and “Observer / Observed / Observed”, 1976). The work articulates camera, monitor, and frame respectively, which are the basic component of video. Awarded at Thomas Edison Film/Video Festival, USA, and New York Short Film Festival, USA etc.
1975 Museum of Modern Art, New York. Anthology Film Archives, New York.
1976 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Collective for Living Cinema, New York. U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
1977 Center Gorges Pompidou, Paris. Apple Gallery, New York. Institute of Contemporary Art Center, Antwerp.
1978 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Vehicle Gallery, Montreal. Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh.
1979 Austrian Film Museum, Vienna. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Media Art Center, Buffalo.
1980 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles. Honolulu Art Museum, Honolulu.
- Takahiko Iimura (b. 1937) is a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and fine artist. He is considered one of the pioneers of experimental and independent filmmaking in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iimura_Takahiko