Luxonline Histories:1990-1999

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Advances in moving image technology and computers meant the video medium was more widely available as a cheap and convenient tool for artists, one which also enabled increasingly complex exhibition opportunities; from video walls at Video Positive in Liverpool to the multiple projections of artists such as Bill Viola and Gary Hill. The advent of lottery funding for the arts offered further opportunities for film and video artists and saw the construction of The Lux Centre, a purpose built home for the London Filmmakers' Co-operative and London Electronic Arts.

Written and researched by Marie Anne McQuay, a freelance writer and curator based in London and Liverpool, and formerly Head of Collaboration Programme at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).

David Hall’s installation, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II: Cultural Eclipse (1990)

KEY EVENTS: 1990-1999

	1990	Sign of the Times: A Decade of Video, Film and Slide-Tape Installations 1980-1990, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.

	1990	19:4:90 Television Interventions, Channel 4 TV, Produced by Anna Ridley and Jane Rigby.

	1990	The Late Show, BBC TV, one minute films and videotapes jointly commissioned by BBC 2 and the Arts Council

	1990	The Dazzling Image, artists videotapes and films on Channel 4 TV, produced by Jane Thornburn

	1990	Biennal of British Film and Video, ICA, London. Arts Council/British Council touring package

	1991	Video Positive festival, Liverpool

	1991	Video Art Plastique Festival, Herouville Saint-Clair, Caen, France

	1991	One Minute Television, The Late Show, BBC TV.

	1991	Not Necessarily, BBC TV Scotland. Commissioned work by Doug Aubrey, Lei Cox, Judith Goddard and Kate Meynell

	1992	New Visions International Festival of Film and Video, Glasgow

	1992	Dazzling Image II, Channel 4 TV. Second series produced by Jane Torburn

	1993	TV Interruptions 93, six works by David Hall, commissioned and broadcast internationally by MTV

	1993	Signes des Temps, British Video, film and slide-tape installations, 1980-1990, Centre d'art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris

	1993	Video Positive 93, Tate Gallery, Liverpool. Third Biennial of video and electronic media art

	1993	Unseen Images, major show of American video artist, Bill Viola, Whitechapel Gallery, London

	1993	The Late Show; 'The Happening History of Video Art', BBC2

	1993	In the Light of the Other, installations by American Video artist Gary Hill, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

	1994	V-Topia: Visions of a Virtual World, Glasgow, Liverpool & Birmingham

	1994	Halloween Society Film Events start in London

	1994	London Video Access becomes London Electronic Arts

	1996	Douglas Gordon is first artist to win Turner Prize with film and video work

	1996	Spellbound: Art into Film, Film Into Art exhibition Hayward Gallery

	1996	First Pandaemonium Festival, ICA

	1996	1st Volcano!!! Underground Film Festival

	1997	The LUX Centre opens, Hoxton Square, London. Incorporates London Electronic Arts and the London Film-makers' Co-op

	1998	International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Liverpool and Manchester

	1998	Underground America screenings, Barbican/Lux Centre

	1999	2nd Pandemonium Festival, The LUX Centre

	1999/2000	Sensation exhibition, Royal Academy forefronts the video work of British artists.