Video History Project

History Home

original site designed by Sherry Miller Hocking, Mona Jimenez, and Dave Jones
site redesign, programming and database translations by Matthew Schlanger
and Sherry Miller Hocking

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"History Home." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/history-home.

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Last modified 15 September 2026

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    Conceived and directed by Sherry Miller Hocking, the Video History Project has operated since 1994 as a collaborative effort; acknowledgements include Ralph Hocking and William Joseph Hocking. Kathy High and Mona Jimenez collaborated with Hocking on the book The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued (Intellect Press, 2014); Matthew Schlanger redesigned the site in Drupal and migrated the databases while David Jones assembled the original vhp web database. Listed funders and partners include the Andy Warhol Foundation, Daniel Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Everson Museum and Visual Studies Workshop; Visual Studies Workshop Summer Institute participants worked 1992–1998 on A Natural History of Video Art. Contact [email protected].

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