Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Episode: 402
Date: 1988-01-01
Subject: Opera
Copyright Holder: WGBH Educational Foundation; Janice Tanaka; Peter Rose

Clip Description
This episode of "New Television" features "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: A Video Opera" by Janice Tanaka and "Digital Speech " by Peter Rose.

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, The: A Video Opera "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: A Video Opera" is a five-act video work incorporating video pieces accompanied by opera, and computer-graphic interludes accompanied by electronic music. Copyright: Janice Tanaka

Digital Speech "Digital Speech" is a a video piece in which the artist illustrates the pitfalls of language by telling a true story of a trip in Turkey. Copyright: Peter Rose.

Program Description
This episode of "New Television" features "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: A Video Opera" by Janice Tanaka and "Digital Speech " by Peter Rose.

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, The: A Video Opera "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: A Video Opera" is a five-act video work incorporating video pieces accompanied by opera, and computer-graphic interludes accompanied by electronic music. Copyright: Janice Tanaka

Digital Speech "Digital Speech" is a a video piece in which the artist illustrates the pitfalls of language by telling a true story of a trip in Turkey. Copyright: Peter Rose.

Series Description
The New Television Workshop originated at WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974 to support the creation and development of experimental video art. This experimental programming included dance, drama, music, performance and visual arts on video and film. As early as 1968, WGBH was committed to the development of video art through residency programs, with artists such as Nam June Paik, and the "Rockefeller Artists-in-Television" project. Many of these early works (pre-1974) were broadcast both locally and nationally.

As an umbrella for arts related programming, the Workshop included "Artist's Showcase, " "Frames of Reference, " "Dance for Camera, " "Poetry Breaks," and "New Television," as well as acquired arts programming. Individual works were created for "Visions," a series produced by WNET (New York), and "Alive From Off Center," a series produced by KTCA (St. Paul - Minneapolis). The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was co-founded by the Workshop and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the 1980's, to commission works by video artists. In 1993 the Workshop ceased production at WGBH.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/New90.HTML