In her studio, Caydance was aware that tomorrow's syllabus called for an introductory lecture to Bay Area exhibitions, which students would visit and report on the following week. Yes, this afternoon there was time to visit two exhibitions, but no current exhibitions were applicable to her class. The usual response to syllabus problems was to show a movie, but when no movies applicable to artists books came to mind, she remembered Joan Jonas' artist's video I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) in which, with video and super 8 film, Jonas cut together spoken words from her journal, scenes from her city-based studio, and scenes from a sojourn in Nova Scotia: two white dogs, blue grass music, dancing in a white dress; "the other night when I was sleeping. I dreamed". This video was only 24 minutes long.

But, then there were Chris Burden's inappropriate response to being jilted in Big Wrench; Burden holding a huge wrench with "True Story" emblazoned on it in neon green, while behind him loomed a 16,000-pound 1952 Ford tractor-trailer; Max Almy's satiric, perfectly high tech created marketing promotion "we've got to have the Perfect Leader"; Dara Birnbaum's equally iconic Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman; Chip Lord's plastic dolls and model cars Easy Living beach adventure. Students would share take-home copies; she would bring a selection of videos to class. Hopefully, Griff was not expecting an evening of hurryup spread offense game film.

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