INTERMEDIA: An Illustrated Chronology, 1972-1973

        1972

        January to December 1972: Intermedia LIP (Local Initiatives Program) grant. Twelve people hired under
        Image Bank, Pacific Rim Consciousness and other projects.

        Isle of Avalon Ritual Theatre Group performs at the Art Gallery of Ontario (included david uu, Gregg Simpson
        and Ingrid uu). The periodical Lodgisticks begins publishing, edited by david uu.

        March:event, Four Dimensional Mirror, Intermedia Video Band at the Burnaby Art Gallery, included Ed Varney,
        Tom Osborne, Sharon McDonald, Judy Copithorne and Don Druick.

        1973

        Summer: Art Pool/Pool D'Art OFY grant.

        Official activities of the Intermedia Society ceased. 

         Intermedia Press, located at Beach Avenue and Hornby St. (continues today as a commercial printer at a
        different location ).

        Intermedia press produced such books as Saturated Scenes  by Gregg Simpson, the Book of Days by
        Henry Rappaport, and Human Nature by Ed Varney.

         A note to academic researchers:

         Today there is an almost desperate attempt to link the careers of UBC photo-based conceptualists such as
         Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace and Christos Dikekakos and their latter day progeny, to Intermedia and the Sound Gallery.

         Although Wallace was somewhat sympathetic to the artists of Intermedia and also showed his collages at the
         Mandan Ghetto, the artists of this group were never part of Intermedia and their activities in no way were the logical
         outgrowth of the multi-media ferment of Vancouver in the 1960's.

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