THE 90's Tom Weinberg & Joel Cohen 55:30 - 1989-1992/2003

THE 90's was an eclectic camcorder videozine series of 52 one-hour shows, broadcast nationally on PBS from 1989 to 1992. In addition to being a variety show of video art styles, it focused on the sub-cultures and alternate cultures that are rarely seen on TV. It was produced by Tom Weinberg, Joel Cohen and more than 300 talented independent video makers, video artists and camcorder reporters.

This specially edited episode focuses on the role of video in our lives and features a variety of camcorder report styles. Twenty-eight short segments include: Philo T. Farnsworth (an inventor of television); President Lyndon Johnson's 1968 home video; Suzi Wehling's portrait of Broadside TV in Tennessee; Cherokee poet Charles Burrell; Blading Report: Chicago Streets; the astounding street dance group House-O-Matics; Phil Morton's Yellowstone News: Ice Fishing; Nancy Cain's Surf Report: Hare Krishna fest; a touching conversation with Erika Becker and her Dad Eddie Becker; Wired In: Dan Sandin; Todd Alcott: Television; an excerpt from Antonio Muntadas' Video Is Television?; Mule Diving Animal Rights Controversy; Your Tape Here: Boy with a Microphone by Bill Stamets; Microphone Technique by R. D. Rosen; Ben Hollis' Mystery Tour #1; Skip Blumberg's Personal Shopper; a Public Service Announcement by Laurie Anderson; Attack of the Flying Logos by Gregory MacNicol; Global TV: Video in the Villages by Vincent Carelli; Bungee Jump by Patrick Creadon and Randy Jaffe; and others.

Executive Producer Tom "Score" Weinberg and Producer Joel Cohen are TV and multimedia producers. Weinberg expedited many of the most important broadcast TV series and shows in video art history. He was a co-founder of TVTV, Fund for Innovative TV, and the Center for New TV; executive producer and co-editor of the spectacular performance art event Media Burn; and executive producer of many TV series including THE 90's, Image Union, It's A Living, Radio Faces, Weekend TV, Chicago Slices, and Wired In.

Host Kristin Lucas 8:00 - 1997

Lucas blends video game imagery and live action in an ironic story about computer dependency. The protagonist expresses her frustration to tech support, or is it a cyber-therapist? "Ever since the power outage that we had on Thursday I've been feeling outside of my self, kind of depressed... not only did the computer shut down but so did I." Kristin Lucas is an exciting new artist who makes videos, installations and performances that are anecdotal, mysterious and dramatic. They've been exhibited at festivals in Mexico City, Montreal, New York and San Francisco; the Whitney Museum Biennial, New York; the 7e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva, Switzerland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and at Dunedin Public Gallery, New Zealand.

Summer, or Grief Mary Lucier 7:30 - 1998

Mary Lucier's videotapes invite contemplation. She uses light to signify transcendence and evoke the sublime. In Summer, or Grief, she has composed a landscape where stillness, ordinary things, and summer's warmth itself seem to absorb grief, and to relax its grip on the heart. Lucier began working in video in the late 1970s after investigating photography, performance and sculpture. Her highly acclaimed multi-monitor installations and single channel tapes have been exhibited at the Capp Street Project, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum Biennial, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Artspace, Sydney; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Lucier was selected as "One of the ten artists to watch in the '90s" by ARTnews magazine.

Todd Alcott: Living in Flames Skip Blumberg 3:45 - 1992

Performance artist Todd Alcott assumes a character who rants about his frenzied life in the metropolis. "I can't do one thing at a time anymore; I have to do two things... It's like I have to be two and a half times myself just to keep up." Is it New York, or is it just him?

ConCreep Skip Blumberg 4:30 - 1995

On LoBro (lower Broadway) in the Soho (south of Houston) district of New York City, a camcorder reporter's chance encounter with a street performer, a virtuoso home-appliance-parts percussionist, is cut short by the NYC Police Department. Skip Blumberg has produced several hundred camcorder reports for THE 90s, Signal-to-Noise, Inside Space, National Geographic TV and as an independent producer.