{"id":5690,"title":"At Arm\u0027s Length: (Taking a Good Hard Look at) Artists\u0027 Video","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/arms-length-taking-good-hard-look-artists-video","version":"34935a562d2bfd7928c32cd776a61a72262ce6ce714ebba1c05ba2df0862ca1e","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:04.446507+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Editor","name":"Barbara Osborn"}],"authorKeys":["Osborn, Barbara"],"subjects":["Texts by Author"],"metadata":[{"label":"Publisher","value":"New York State Council on the Arts","url":null},{"label":"Place","value":"New York, NY","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC2474","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022At Arm\u0027s Length: (Taking a Good Hard Look at) Artists\u0027 Video.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/arms-length-taking-good-hard-look-artists-video.","publication":"At Arm\u0027s Length: (Taking a Good Hard Look at) Artists\u0027 Video. New York State Council on the Arts. 1990.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/5690.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC2474","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"},{"label":"At Arm\u0027s Length: (Taking a Good Hard Look at) Artists\u0027 Video","url":"https://cdn.experimentaltvcenter.org/vhp/sites/default/files/history/pdf/armslength_2474_master.pdf","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":934},{"name":"abstract","source":"recorded publication abstract","generated":false,"characters":417},{"name":"archive_summary","source":"existing ETC archive summaries: ETC2474","generated":false,"characters":417}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"At Arm\u0027s Length: (Taking a Good Hard Look at) Artists\u0027 Video (PDF) Includes \u0022Coming to Terms with the Frightful Parent: Video Art and Television\u0022- John Wyver. \u0022Light Years: An Eyewitness Report\u0022 - Leslie Fuller. \u0022Political Video in the United States: A Statement for the 1990s\u0022 - John Downing. \u0022The Power of the Purse: Public Funding and the Aesthetics of Video\u0022 - Jon Burris. \u0022Jon Burris\u0027s essay, \u0022The Power of the Purse: Public Funding and the Aesthetics of Video\u0022 is long out of print but worth tracking down....It is an excellent overview of the peculiar conditions in the culture, in public funding, in technology, and at a handful of key foundations that encouraged the independent media arts to emerge in the late 1960s.\u0022 - From Deep Focus: A Report on the Future of Independent Media, Andrew Blau. NAMAC: San Francisco, 2005. Thanks to Barbara Osbourn and Jon Burris for their assistance and permission to reproduce this text.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":934,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}