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Technonationalism and Telematic Art in Canada: Vera Frenkel’s String Games (1974) Cover

Technonationalism and Telematic Art in Canada: Vera Frenkel’s String Games (1974)

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|Aug 2025

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Figure 1

Vera Frenkel, documentation of String Games inside the Montreal Bell Canada Conference TV studio, 1974. Vera Frenkel fonds, Queen’s University Archives (Kingston, ON).

Figure 2

Vera Frenkel, String Games rehearsal documentation, 1974 Toronto. Vera Frenkel fonds, Queen’s University Archives (Kingston, ON).

Figure 3

Vera Frenkel, documentation of String Games inside the Montreal Bell Canada Conference TV studio, 1974. Vera Frenkel fonds, Queen’s University Archives (Kingston, ON).

Figure 4

Vera Frenkel, String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video (Montreal–Toronto, 1974), 1974 installation at Espace 5, Montreal. Vera Frenkel fonds, Queen’s University Archives (Kingston, ON).

Figure 5

Newspaper advertisement for the Trans-Canada Skyway, The Ottawa Citizen, July 5, 1958, page 76.

Figures 6 and 7

Expo 67 Postcard, 1963. Pavillon du téléphone / Telephone Pavilion. Montréal : Compagnie canadienne de l’Exposition universelle de 1967; Olympic Ceremonies Postage Stamp, 1976. Peter Swan and Raymond Bellemare for Canada Post.

Figure 8

Vera Frenkel, documentation of String Games inside the Toronto Bell Canada Conference TV studio, 1974. Vera Frenkel fonds, Queen’s University Archives (Kingston, ON).

Figure 9

Newspaper advertisement for Bell Canada Conference TV, The Montreal Gazette, April 3, 1979, page 35.

Figure 10

Diagram of Bell Canada Studio, Montreal, from R. W. Hough and R. Panko, Teleconferencing Systems: A State-of-the-Art Survey and Preliminary Analysis (Menlo Park, California: Stanford Research Institute, 1977), 9.

Figure 11

Vera Frenkel, documentation of String Games inside the Montreal Bell Canada Conference TV studio, 1974. Vera Frenkel fonds, Queen’s University Archives (Kingston, ON).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.363 | Journal eISSN: 2213-0969
Language: English
Page range: 81 - 96
Published on: Aug 7, 2025
Published by: Sound & Vision
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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