XFR COLLECTIVE ZINE RELEASE PARTY
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6 – 12PM TO 7PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

XFR Collective is throwing a party to celebrate the release of our new zine Total Recall: A Robot’s Guide to Preserving Your Digital Born Media! From 12-5pm we’ll be transferring your home VHS and MiniDV tapes, talking about the magnetic media crisis, and selling XFR Collective swag. Tape transfer is available on a first-come, first-serve basis!

At 5 PM we’ll be screening an audio visual charcuterie board of bizarre clips from All Color News and Potato Wolf, peeled off, mashed up and served to you hot and fresh. (This event is $5.)

In the late 70s and early 80s cable access television was gaining a wider audience in New York City and the artists of Collaborative Projects (Colab) were all over it! All Color News (1977-1978) was the first Manhattan Cable TV show from Colab. Artists would bring segments to the studio which were mixed live, sometimes with live voiceover and comments from call in viewers. Potato Wolf, sort of like a sketch comedy show for C.H.U.D.s, was produced from 1979 to 1986. With loose scripts, biting sarcasm, and D.I.Y. sets made mostly of painted cardboard and other random junk, Potato Wolf will show you why you’ve never had one day of fun in your whole life.