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E-BLAST: Blackwomen Video Art

Cinema Remixed and Reloaded 

SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF FINE ART 

PRESENTS 

A

 GROUNDBREAKING   EXHIBITION   OF   VIDEO  ART 

BY    BLACKWOMEN    ARTISTS  1970 to the PRESENT

<sup>Video art is currently the most pervasive genre of contemporary art and beginning September 14, through Saturday, December 8, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will feature the first-ever exhibition that explores this genre. Unlike the more conventional genres of painting and sculpture, video art emerged in the later half of the 20th century and has rapidly moved from the realm of cinema to visual arts genre. Like cinema, video art relies on the lapse of time, and the viewers’ willingness to allow the work to unfold from frame to frame.

While black women artists have been creating video art for more than 30 years as both experimental cinema and as visual art, most exhibitions featuring video art have not collectively or exclusively examined the contributions that black women make to this exciting field. “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970” is the first exhibition that provides a close examination of black women video artists.</sup>

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