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THE LATIN AMERICA FORUM 
Syracuse International Film & Video Festival 2005

PEDRO CUPERMAN, Moderator.
JAIME DAVIDOVICH, Video Artist

Pedro Cuperman: Jaime Davidovich, from Argentina, is one of the fathers of video art and a major figure in mixed media and installation art. His work is in museum collections throughout the world. Last year the New York [[crossed-out]] Library [[crossed-out]] University purchased his archives and videotapes. His most renowned works include The Gap and Evita, A Video Scrapbook (1982). His more recent work confronts the homogeneity of globalization. Please welcome Jaime. 

Jaime Davidovich: First of all, I should say that I was in the first generation of artists working with video but I'm not the father of video art. The father of video art, [[crossed-out]] the self proclaimed father of video art, [[crossed-out]] and this is corroborated by numerous critics and curators, is Nam June Paik. But the fact is that the father of video and television art, who wrote a manifesto as early as 1951, was another Argentinean who became one of the leading artists of the later part of the 20th century: Lucio Fontana. It often happens when you look at the history of video art, that Lucio Fontana tends to be forgotten, but he has [[crossedout]] haas [[crossed-out]] in fact the first one to do that and was able to show work on Italian television. So that's a very important thing. 

I probably will say that I was one of the uncles of video art. There are many uncles. So we have a lot of members of the video art family that at one point