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Article: Visionary video: the Archive and the National Center for Experiments in Television.
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- July 1, 2009
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"[T]he work cannot fail to express the Force which underlies it all."
--Stephen Beck (1)
In "Outside the Archive: The World in Fragments," Lucy Reynolds demonstrates how in the found footage work of Bruce Conner, Morgan Fisher, Peter Tscherkassky, and others, the film frame becomes, in essence, an archive: "a manifestation not only of [the history of] cinema, but of the fractured rhythms of the industry and the incoherent images of history itself." (2) Similarly, Hal Foster, in his illuminating study of contemporary archival art, sees the archival artist as someone who "seek[s] to make historical information, often lost or displaced, physically present." The ...