Anne-Marie Duguet
(Paris, 1947- )
Trained in the sociology of art, writer and critic Anne-Marie
Duguet has taught theater and sociology of television at the
University of Paris 1, where she is now assistant professor in
the Arts Department and directs the Center for Research on Film
and Audiovisual Arts. She also teaches the aesthetics of
electronic and computer images. After creating a video workshop
in 1973, she began specializing in video in the late 1970s and
was a member of the editorial board of Vidéoglyphes
from 1979 to 1981. In 1981 she published one of the first books
in France dealing with video as a means of expression, Vidéo,
la mémoire au poing, which dealt with alternative social
practices, conditions of access to production in France, the use
of the medium as a critique of television, and the involvement of
women in video. Duguet has observed a wide range of social,
political, and artistic styles in video. In 1991 she organized an
exhibition on the work of Jean-Christophe Averty, the French
pioneer of special effects for television, and in 1993, a
retrospective of the work of video artist Thierry Kuntzel.