Overview

Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.

1. Paul Wong

   Director

2. Sharon Levett

   Director

3. Daryl Lacey

   Director

4. Randall Lyon

   Director

5. Gus Nelson

   Director

6. Sharon Grace

   Director

7. Peggy Cady

   Director

8. Bill Bartlett

   Director

9. Chas Leckie

   Director

10. Felix Partz

    Director

11. Jorge Zontal

    Director

12. Willoughby Sharp

    Director

13. Liza Bear

    Director

14. Robin Winters

    Director