REWIND

The University has been awarded £1/2m by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) to create a unique cultural resource dedicated to the preservation of work from the first two decades of video - one of the biggest research grants awarded by the funding body this year.

REWIND, led by Professor Stephen Partridge at DJCAD, will establish an archive, major exhibition and publication to enable the public and academics to access archives of 1970s and 1980s film. The investigation will trace the evolution of electronic media art in the UK and preserve some of the country's most significant pieces of work. The project will be carried out over four years.

Professor Partridge said, "Much early video work is in poor technical condition, many works (particularly multi-screen and installation work) are lost. Very few installation works have survived intact. Some technologies intrinsic to the nature of the works are now obsolete, for example, reel-to-reel videotape decks used in tape-delay installations."

Still from Professor Partridge's work from the show 'Monitor', 1975. The work was recently shown at Tate Britain.