Hands Across the Border

Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration With participation from Paul Wong Sharon Levett Daryl Lacey Video Inn VancouverRandall Lyon Gus Nelson Televista Projects Memphis Sharon Grace Video Free America Berkeley Art Museum UC Peggy Cady Bill Bartlett Chas Leckie Open Space Victoria Felix Partz Jorge Zontal Willoughby Sharp General Idea Toronto Liza Bear Robin Winters Center for New Art Activities NY et al Slowscan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds freeze it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal The machines could only be used between two points at a time At the receiving end the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor