It all started in 1986 with a weekend event entitled "Video as a Creative Medium." Yes, they had to explain it. Yes, video. Yes, creative. Until then video was pretty much confined to TV news, porn (pause! rewind!), crappy homemade wedding videos, MTV (cool!), and a few forward-thinking video artists like Nam June Paik and Bill Voila who had been experimenting with the "electronic medium" for years. Due to a grammatical presumption in 1987, the 1st Annual Dallas Video Festival was born. Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the electronic medium in Dallas with a blast from our electronic past.

In anticipation of the Dallas Video Festival 20th anniversary, Kettle Art presents some of the best work shown in the festival's first 19 years.

The classic footage will include: From 1987:

-MTV “Art Breaks”

-“Buzzbox” with Pee Wee Herman

From 1988:

-Selections from the 1988 Dallas Show, in which Dallas artists interpret the assassination of JFK, including:

Blessing by Rev. Bob

The Single Gun Theory by The Church of the Subgenius

Taste the Legend with Jackie Matrix by Mark Ridlin

Selection from Dallas at the Crossroads (with Walter Cronkite)

Selection from “Dick Talk” by X

And, from 1989:

-Selections from The Texas Show, including:

-Rev. Bob heals the Videotape by Farley Scott

-Susanville: The Epic ­ Part I by Susan Magilow and Susan Teegardin

-Exoskeleton by Dave Hynds

-Selections from DEVO: A Retrospective

Information from the gallery's site