Adelaide Mickel, "Video art from Portugal here", in The Daily Iowa, Wednesday, April 15, 1981, p.8.

"The Corroboree Gallery of New Concepts will sponsor the first American showing of new video art from Portugal tonight, as part of its continuing series of video art and performance events. J. M. Vasconcelos, a Portuguese architect currently studying urban planning at the UI, has spent more than a year organizing the performance, which evolved out of his desire to present a cross-section of Portuguese video art to a new foreign audience and to investigate the contrast between the artistic and documentary uses of video. Video art in Portugal is linked to that country´s troubled politics. Before 1974, when Portugal acquired a more liberal government, work with electronic equipment had been an economic impossibility for most artists. THE NEW socialist government created a National Video Center for artists interested in the medium, and it is not surprising that within this context video art has strong political ties. (...)"