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WHAT?

On April 3rd, The Artists' Television Network (formerly known as Cable SoHo) began a thirteen-week series that offers the best of New York's avant-garde in dance, theatre, music and the visual arts. Funded by a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts, the show, entitled SoHo Television, is seen every Monday on Manhattan cable's Channel 10 at 9:00 P.M. Its stated goal is to "seek ways and means to experiment with cable television as an artistic medium, in terms of both work created for broadcast, and documentation of performances, exhibitions and meetings of interest to the widest viewing audience."

Speaking casually from his spacious loft on Wooster Street, SoHo Television's Executive Director, Jaime Davidovich had this to say: "What we are trying to do is give the avant-garde artist a first-class showcase and, at the same time, build an audience that will appreciate his or her work. In short, if you're into distant stuff that goes far beyond the limits we inevitably foist upon our imaginations, this is your kind of programming."

The series' first presentation, which aired April 3rd, was entitled "Artists' Propaganda II." It featured a collection of short video works by twenty-two artists. They varied in context and ran from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Artist Lucio Pozzi's hands were seen (wearing

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