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Jaime Davidovich
American, born Argentina. 1936–2016
1975
A ten-minute black-and-white standard-definition video in which Jaime Davidovich collapses the mechanics of television—scan lines, shadow, and sound—into a concise, poetic study of image and place.
A dark profile at left meets bands of flickering, watery horizontal scan lines that give the picture a tactile, low-resolution shimmer, as if an urban memory is being re-played through an aging TV.
Made during the early years of video art, this work treats broadcast technology as both medium and theme, helping to open television and cable as experimental platforms for artists and expanding how moving image could be used conceptually.
Medium
Standard-definition video (black and white, sound)
Dimensions
10:12 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the Jaime Davidovich Foundation
Accession
255.2024
Palette
Exhibitions
