Self-Portrait
Plot: Access to video technology had largely been limited to corporate-run TV studios until the Sony Portapak, a battery-powered video tape recorder that could be carried by one person, was popularized in the early 1970s. This device also allowed artists to see what they were recording in real time and to immediately play it back, prompting investigations of technology’s increasingly fluid relationship to the body, language, and time itself
Release Date:
Wednesday, October 27 1971
54 years ago
54 years ago
Shigeko Kubota