Underground Networks: Artists' Television in New York City

New York City’s downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s is synonymous with underground film, video, and performance art. Many of the artists who would come to define this period also dabbled in the then-new technology of public access cable television, as host, producer, guest, or studio audience member. Drawing on archival research and personal interviews, this book—the first full-length study of this vibrant body of work—explores how poets, painters, and filmmakers produced talk shows and s...