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Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Episode: 305 (1993)
Date: 1990-01-01
Duration: 00:01:27
Subject: Travel
People: Acconci, Vito; Kobland, Ken; Sims, E. J.; Strahs, Jim
Copyright Holder: Ken Kobland and The Kitchen
Clip Description
Ken Kobland's "Foto-Roman" is an impressionistic travelogue through unidentified cities. Windows looking out onto streets below are a recurring image.
In this short segment, an unidentified man boils water on a small stove and looks out a window onto what looks like a Chinatown location.
Program Description
This episode of "New Television" features Ken Kobland's "Foto-Roman."
Ken Kobland's "Foto-Roman" is an impressionistic travelogue through unidentified cities. Footage is shot from many locations, including an airplane, a train, and a boat. Windows looking out onto streets below are a recurring image. Vito Acconci reads text from James Strah's novel "Queer and Alone," which is partly the tale of a traveler. Travel and still photography by Nancy Campbell appear in the work.
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/Foto-Roman338.HTML
