Video by Artists: Experimental Media in Artes Visuales

This screening features Latin American artists working in video during the run of Artes Visuales, from 1973 to 1981, highlighting the avant garde tendencies the magazine sought to foreground.

From its first issue, Artes Visuales championed the popular arts in its pages, making space for vernacular photography and film to be appreciated alongside the traditional fine artforms of painting and sculpture. As video art rose to prominence in the 1970s with the accessibility of the Super 8 camera, the magazine documented the emergence of this experimental new media. Issue 17, from the spring of 1978, is devoted entirely to video art and places artists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe in conversation about the conceptual and practical capabilities of the moving image as medium.