Video Show: A Journey into Old New Media, BFI

Video Show: A Journey into Old New Media. The 1975 Serpentine Gallery Video Show provided a week long platform for the new media form, video, and showcased many different types of work, unusually mixing community video work with tapes and installations made by artists. Returning to the exhibition’s implicit questions about the potential of art and activism, social engagement and the significance of new technologies in relationship to the mass media, we will show newly digitised titles from the London Community Video Archive, with whom this screening is presented, plus other titles exhibited in 1975. We look forward to welcoming the video makers and original show participants for a discussion chaired by William Fowler as part of the event. Held at The British Film Institute BFI, Southbank.