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title: "Copy, overwrite, copy again"
date: 2018-05-15
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:08:32+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-09T08:44:55Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/basquiat-and-vhs-context-en/"
description: "Anyone who rented a movie after 1976 would have done so on VHS. However, the video tape’s history goes back much further, and is closely connected to the development of television, to video art and to political media guerillas after 1968."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Header_BASQUIAT_BARBICAN_-_CLIP_13.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Copy, overwrite, copy again