POLLY GONE, 1988, still from 3 minute video

POLLY GONE, AUGUST 17 at 8:00 PM

When the EZTV Video Gallery first opened in the summer of 1983, founder John Dorr envisioned the space as presenting “an alternative vision of contemporary culture and reality, a vision in no way controlled by the mass media, lowest-common-denominator ethic.” This was accomplished through EZTV’s wildly varied programming, which featured everything from more traditional narrative video to live performance and cutting-edge video and computer art – and often works that incorporated multiple elements from all of the above.

This program is split into three sections: the first a survey of video and digital works from EZTV’s earliest years, the second a restaging of the moving-image portion of curator Patric Prince’s seminal “Art: 1990” computer art show at EZTV’s Cyberspace Gallery, and the third a survey of EZTV works from the 2000s and onwards.