the 1979 World Administrative Radio Conference at which frequencies were allocated for various uses of the spectrum by broadcast and other technologies. The series included a Slow Scan feed from Geneva, Switzerland as well as live studio interviews with telecommunications experts. Of the WARC report programs, Rachel Wetzler has written that they "were fundamentally concerned with the intermingling of governmental, corporate, and military interests that determined and regulated access to information on a global scale." The show continued uninterruptedly on Manhattan Cable's access channel but changed its name to Communications Update and diversified its focus to include experimental programs by artists and filmmakers, including satire and comedy. Films Beginning in 1978 with Souk El Arba, Béar has made a number of films in formats ranging from Super 8 to 35mm. They include the shorts Oued Nefifik: A Foreign Movie (1982), a post-colonial comedy of manners, Lost Oasis, Earthglow and the feature film Force of Circumstance (1989), a political intrigue set in Casablanca and Washington DC, starring Boris Major, Eric Mitchell, Jessica Stutchbury and Tom Wright. Her films and videos have been exhibited at the Festival of the Other Avant-Garde, the São Paulo Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, "American Independents", Berlinale, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK and the Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, Long Island. Select filmography Five Video Pioneers (1977) Send/Receive (1977) Jackie Winsor: Work in Progress (1975–1978) Towards a New World Information Order (1979) Satellite TV: Birth of an Industry (1980) Polisario: Liberation of the Western Sahara (1981) Lost Oasis (1982) Oued Nefifik: A Foreign Movie (1982) Earthglow (1983) "Force of Circumstance" (1989) Homeward Bound (1988) Spring Lake (2013) BOMB magazine In 1981, along with Betsy Sussler, Sarah Charlesworth, Glenn O'Brien, and McClard, Béar co-founded Bomb. The first edition, which was published in May 1981, featured artwork by Sarah Charlesworth on the cover. The title of the publication was both a reference to British Vorticism and their publication, Blast, and to the fact that the founders believed that the magazine would "bomb" and fail after only a few editions. Publications Béar has written both fiction and non-fiction. In the late 80s and early 90s her first-person short stories set in Hawaii, Jamaica and downtown New York were published in Between C and D and [http://bombsite.com Bomb Magazine"]. As a freelance reporter, her features, interviews and filmmaker profiles have appeared