The Very First Artist to Display at MOCA
With the help of Ken Yas, whom I met through David Jove, and Robert Roll, a fixture on New Wave Theatre whom I introduced to David, I managed to borrow a camera and make a ten-minute home video called Contemporary Extemporary, which won first place in Video Review Magazine's contest for the best home video ever, the prize being a state of the art RCA home entertainment system (that turned out to be a prototype of a new system they never released to the public, making repairs impossible, but cool nevertheless.), plus an all-expenses paid trip to New York City to accept the award. The judges were Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, Jeffrey Lyons, Neal gabler, David Hajdu, and Glenn Kenney. The accompanying article by Ron Goldberg read... Although the judges agreed on the overall quality of the entries, picking specific winners took a little doing. However, after several lively rounds of debate and discussion, a clear victor was chosen for the Grand Prize. It was Mich...