Electric Eyes brochure detailing prominent video artists of the eighties, their work and video screenings in Vienna, 22 – 25 November 1989, London Video Access and Film and Video Umbrella Touring Programme. Includes the work ‘Electron’.pdf here

Electric Eyes – screening times for featured videos in Vienna, 22 – 25 November 1989, London Video Access and Film and Video Umbrella Touring Programme. Includes the work ‘Electron’.pdf here

“The work [‘Television Circle’] consisted of a circle (about 20 feet in diameter) of seven identical large-screen televisions, housed in steel boxes with weather and vandal-proofed ‘Lexan’ (a material used to produce riot shields for the police) screens displaying images form a single VHS source. The source tape (late distributed in as a single screen tape entitled ‘Electron’) was an edited video and sound montage depicting electrical energy, industrial power, electrical networks, including details of insects trapped in amber (referencing the origins of the word ‘electron’, derived from the ancient Greek word for amber), the electric ring of a domestic cooker, presented as a kind of contemporary mandela of light and power, the houses of parliament at Westminster, juxtaposed with suburban domesticity. In Goddard’s own words the tape was a collage of ‘images of mythology and technology – a physical and mental landscape and connections and interplay between the outer world and the inner realm”.

Judith Goddard (1990) ‘Electron – Television Circle, 1987, Chrissie Iles (ed.) Signs of the Times, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, p.35.
Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video. Berg, 2006.