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Gmail- Opening of "The Live! Show," an exhibition by Jamie Daviodovich (January 21, 2010)
1/15/10 10:48PM

Though a manic collage of playful ideas, The Live! Show also operated as a polemical artwork for its creator, Jamie Davidovich. Davidovich had a long-standing interest in television as a platform for artistic production and intervention; The Live! Show allowed him to explore the interest while engaging directly with the conditions of television culture itself. Davidovich- the show's host, editorialist, and chief ideologue-usually assumed the role of his favored character, "Dr. Videovich," inviting artists such as Laurie Anderson, Les Levine, and Robert Longo onto the show to perform and make work. He also took advantage of his airtime to do a little selling, inaugurating a segment called "The Video Shop," in which he hawked "Winky Dinky" sets, Dukes of Hazzard bed trays, and other objects he had made especially for sale on the show.

For this exhibition, episodes and excerpts from The Live! Show will be shown alongside archival material, printed matter, and original photographs documenting the show's run between 1979 and 1984.

About Jamie Daviodovich
Born in Argentina, Jamie Daviodovich has been living in New York since 1964. One of the first visual artists to work with video, he began to use the medium for his 1972 installation at the Akron Art Institute. In 1976, he and a group of other artists created Cable SoHo, an organization dedicated to producing and showing new artistic works on cable television. In 1977, he became president of the organization (changing its name to Artist Television Network), and started creating his own programs for cable. Inspired by Cabaret Voltaire and the pioneering work of Ernie Kovacs, in 1979 he started "The Live! Show," which was shown weekly on Manhattan Cable Television (currently Time Warner Cable) until 1984. Currently working on a "delete" project addressing the over-saturation of information in the globalized art world, Daviodovich's work is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Musco Reina Sofia (Madrid), and the Museo de Arte Moderno (Bueno Aires). In 2010, a major retrospective of Davidovich's work is planned at Artium in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

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