HfG x ZKM Discourse Series „thinking inside out“ ZKM Medialounge Thu, May 8, 2025 / 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm CET

Artists’ Television in the 80s: A Critique of Mass Media

In the joint lecture series "thinking inside out" by ZKM and HfG, we invite international guests from the fields of philosophy, literature, and art to an open exchange with university members, ZKM staff and the people of Karlsruhe.

This talk by Kathy Rae Huffman is a discussion about artists’ cable television productions at the Long Beach Museum of Art in the 80s, and rare archival material from the LBMA Video Archives, courtesy of the Getty Research Institute (GRI), Los Angeles. The GRI has held the Long Beach Museum’s video collection of 5000 videotapes since 2006. Between 1974-1999, the Long Beach Museum of Art provided unprecedented exhibition, production, and post-production services to artists. LBMA Video was a mecca for media artists in the 1980s and 1990s.

Kathy Rae Huffman is an independent curator who currently resides in Southern California. She was chief curator at LBMA from 1979 - 1984 and was executive producer of the Museum’s cable TV series “Shared Realities” (1983-84), recently shown in the galleries of LBMA.