Blue for You was a video collaboration between the artist Anne Bean and Dov Eylath from 1981. They used various video techniques including chroma-key to illustrate the psychological tension between two people.

“Anne Bean covers up her face with a blue paint. Because the one camera doesn’t pick up blue, her features disappear bit by bit as she applies the colour. ‘Through’ her we see Eylath’s face appear, becoming ever more dominant. The dialogue is a complete agreement with this struggle between two identities.”

This is an edit of the version that appeared in Patrick D. Martin and Dov Eylath’s video fanzine Vidzine II (1984). I’ve included it to give some context to video art arena that Patrick had been experimenting before setting the Roboshow in motion.

As the animator and commercials director Bob Lawrie recalls in an interview on this site, galleries at the time generally did not regard video as ART if it had synchronised sound, and definitely not if it was LOUD music and flash frames. At the same time, pop promos in this era did not have as their mantra a concept that music and image should be married for altruistic and hypnotic subliminal effect with no performers, unless they were actors. This was the space that Patrick and Dov were experimented in with their TV Fetish collaboration, which was the forerunner to the Roboshow.