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

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Research concerned an art-historical investigation into artistic strategies for self-presentation using broadcast media, including television and the web. The Video Vortex publication was the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video, widely cited and reviewed. The exhibition was a major international touring show co-curated with Kathy Rae Huffman for AV Festival 2008: Broadcast, seen at two venues: Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle and Cornerhouse, Manchester. Initiated by Audio Visual Arts North East in collaboration with Cornerhouse, Hatton Gallery and CRUMB, and with funding from Arts Council England touring programme, Broadcast Yourself is the first visual arts touring project to be undertaken by the newly formed company. As a centrepiece of AV Festival 08, the exhibition explored the Festival theme of ‘broadcast’ through important contemporary and historical works, as well as taking these ideas and debates further by engaging

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