'Search' in Broadcast Yourself: Artists interventions into television and strategies for self-broadcasting from the 1970s to today

Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs / Matt Watkins); Shaina Anand; Ian Breakwell; Chris Burden; Stan Douglas; Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz; Alistair Gentry; Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Adriene Jenik; Doug Hall, Chip Lord and Jody Procter; Joanie 4 Jackie (Miranda July et al.); Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup; TV swansong (curated by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie); Bill Viola; Van Gogh TV; 56KTV Bastard Channel (curated by Reinhard Storz / xcult.org)

'Search' was a project made for Television. It consisted of twenty ten second sequences transmitted during the commercial breaks. It was broadcast on Tyne Tees Television between June 21st and July 4th as part of the Tyne International Festival 1993.

On Monday May 17th 1993 at 1pm in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup took a synchronised walk in two separate locations in the city centre. This event was recorded on the 16-camera surveillance system recently installed throughout the commercial centre of the city by Northumbria Police and the City Council in partnership with local businesses.

The systems' radial vision recorded 16 separate views of the city in any one second, 24 hours a day.

This international group exhibition, co-curated by Sarah Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman, includes a selection of TV, video installation and web-based works which demonstrate how artists have successfully challenged the dominant culture of television since the 1960s. The exhibition includes artists who have taken TV technology and turned it into a performance space, a cultural forum, and an interactive media platform, as well as projects which document how artists are now using the Internet to broadcast themselves.

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