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Jaime Davidovich (Directing)

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D.O.B: 1936-09-29

D.O.D: 2018-08-27

Jaime Davidovich was a conceptual, video and installation artist, as well as a pioneering activist for the potential of artist-run, local cable television programming. Davidovich was a founding member of Cable SoHo (1976) and president of the Artists' Television Network (1978). His own cable access show, a weekly variety program called The Live! Show, aired on Manhattan Cable Television from 1979 until 1984. In the guise of his alter-ego, Dr. Videovich, Davidovich hosted the show, which featured performances by and interviews with art world personalities, live phone-ins, and a home-shopping segment from which he sold his collection of TV-related kitsch. Jaime Davidovich was born in Argentina in 1936 and moved to New York in 1963. He was educated at the National College of Buenos Aires; the University of Uruguay, and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Davidovich is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships,...