Sign of the Times, group exhibition,

Sign of the Times, curated by Chrissie Iles, offered a unique overview of a decade of moving image work by two generations of British film and video artists. The exhibition, which toured to Europe through the British Council, is the first of many important shows that took place at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford during the 1990s. Iles presented the exhibition in two parts and each piece was configured either as a single room installation or placed in relationship to other works in a large open space. Her emphasis was therefore on the manifestation of video as an experiential interface, rather than as a medium isolated from context, as its purists at the time would maintain. Marie-Anne McQua