[spectre] [CAS] Talk: EZTV: A Case Study in Misunderstanding by Michael J. Masucci, 21 May 2025

[Paul Brown]

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The Computer Arts Society 2025 programme continues

EZTV: A Case Study in Misunderstanding

Speaker: Michael J. Masucci; Moderator: Sean Clark
18:00 BST, Wednesday, 21 May 2025
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This event is via Zoom only.  Booking link below.

The process of remembrance involves many factors which mitigate and may deteriorate the accuracy and authenticity of a given subject. The complex, diverse, and oft-times contradictory of EZTV is an example of how the recent past may be forgotten or misrepresented, even with the best of intentions. Not to be confused with the better-known and illegal BitTorrent of the same name, EZTV began in 1979 in West Hollywood, California, initially as a way that independent artists could produce and present their own DIY no-budget analogue video productions. Within its first years it quickly expanded it base to welcome both computer artists and experimenters in telepresence and online exhibition. Artists such as David Em, Paul Brown, Victor Acevedo and many others, often in collaboration with LA ACM SIGGRAPH, found EZTV to be a place to exhibit, discuss and meet. Curator/historian Patric Prince co-created CyberSpace Gallery there as an early on-going exhibition space dedicated to digital art.

Michael J. Masucci is an award-winning American artist, specializing in new media practices, including video, digital, sound and performance. He is a founding member of the seminal Los Angeles-based art group EZTV (www.eztvmuseum.com <http://www.eztvmuseum.com/>) and its CyberSpace Gallery, among the world’s first galleries dedicated to digital art, which the Victoria & Albert Museum states “literally put digital art on the map.” He recently co-created DNA Festival Santa Monica (dnafestivalsm.com <http://dnafestivalsm.com/>) an annual series of events and exhibitions focused on digital and emergent technology arts. His work has been shown at the Getty, Kandinsky Library/Pompidou, REDCAT, SIGGRAPH, the ICA London & the AFI.

The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.

This event is via Zoom only and open to the public and is free but you must book your place here:  https://computerartssociety210525.eventbrite.co.uk/

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