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New Urban Lanscapes

MICA TV

1988 00:23:00 United StatesEnglishColor4:3Video
Tags:
Artist Portraits, Installation

Description

In 1988 the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan asked artists and architects to produce installations that centered on “the rapid development of the modern city and its enormous impact on how people live and work” for the New Urban Landscapes exhibition. MICA-TV produced profiles of the artists whose work was featured in the show, including Vito Acconci, Dennis Adams and Andrea Blum, Joel Otterson, Kawamata, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jon Kessler, Jean Nouvel, Stephen Willats, Martha Schwartz, and Haim Steinbach.

MICA-TV was the collaborative effort between Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen, who began making video portraits of contemporary artists in 1980. Unlike most film or video programs about art and artists, MICA-TV develops a unique video equivalent of the artist’s work—an approach stemming from the belief that a viewer can learn more about the artist’s work by seeing his ideas directly visualized in another medium. Klonarides is also an artist and curator; Owen owns and operates a film and television production company in New York City