Gerry Schum

After a few misspellings of the name I finally found tons of information on the late artist Gerry Schum. (except for the wiki page, that was in Dutch or something). Schum's work was interesting for me to look at along the lines of 'film still's'. For any of you who might not know his work his aim was to use TV as a direct artistic medium, wanted the broadcasts to be works of art instead of art documentaries or reports etc. For that reason, he refused to comply with the requests for commentated broadcasts put to him by the TV stations after the initial transmission: 'During all the 38 minutes of the Land Art show there is no word spoken. No explanation. I think an art object realised in regard of the medium TV does not need a spoken explanation.' This conviction was one reason his hopes of establishing the broadcast on a permanent basis were not to be fulfilled.

I found that information at this link: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/die-fernsehgalerie/

During the time of making the piece 'Land Art', Schum collaborated with other artists such as Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson and , some of whom  continued to work with T.V. or video even after Schum's death.