Fests and events, 1/8.

“For the last ten years New York City’s Art in General has been host to an annual Video Marathon – a weekend-long intensive look at the state of video art,” writes Caitlin Jones for Rhizome. Highlights of this 10th Anniversary Edition include Ed Halter’s lecture on “the utopian hopes and mundane realities of public access television, the question of ‘fan-dom’ and subjectivity, underground VHS bootlegging as proto-file-sharing, criticism of art and comedy, and the challenge of defining the term ‘artist,’ and in particular, ‘video artist,’” using Jeff Krulik’s Heavy Metal Parking Lot as the initial point of reference.

“Fests and events, 1/8,” GreenCine Daily, January 8, 2008.