Anu Sahota, Network Service | 2011 (1950 – 1980) | Multi-Channel Installation and Projection | Canada
Network Service explores the ways in which a public service role for television has historically been bred through cultural programming. Rooted in the temporal rhythms and spatial dimensions of broadcasting, the installation consists of program titles and station identifications from CBC Television British Columbia (CBUT-TV) used throughout the late 1970s and 80s. The still colour slides-inserted between units of programming in the days before more technologically advanced video systems-are markers of the internal organization of programming flows. Supplementing the installation are transfers of glass slides from CBUT-TV in the 1950s, a montage of locally-produced television shows from 1985, and mail order recordings of radio documentaries aired on Radio Canada International, the shortwave service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Installations are open to the public Friday June 24, Saturday June 25, Sunday June 26 from 12-5pm
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TRANSCRIPTION LISTENING LOUNGE: RCI Radio Documentaries
Cocktails and mail-order recordings of radio documentaries aired on Radio Canada International, the shortwave service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Excerpts of “Transcription” recordings will include: The Government Store (1983), Stories of the Indian and Eskimo, (date unknown), and Literature Canadiense Contemporánea (1984).
Saturday June 25 5-7pm
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Anu Sahota is an advocate of public broadcasting and a student of media history. Since receiving a Master’s degree from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in 2006, she has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada. Anu is a longtime volunteer at the Pacific Cinémathèque and is the programmer of the Day for Night film series at The Waldorf Hotel. She lives and works in Vancouver.
Anu would like to thank Colin Preston and Christine Hagemoen at the CBC Archives.
