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National Video Festival

Date
1981

National Video Festival: The State of the Art at The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. Organized by The American Film Institute.

Retrospective of Media Bus, Inc/Lanesville TV; TVTV; DCTV; Ant Farm; Optic Nerve; Videopolis; University Community Video; Global Village; NOVAC; The Kitchen; Long Beach Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; University Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; WNET/TV Lab. June 3-7, 1981.

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National Video Festival: The State of the Art was presented at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, June 3–7, 1981; it was organized by The American Film Institute. The program presented a retrospective of Media Bus, Inc/Lanesville TV; TVTV; DCTV; Ant Farm; Optic Nerve; Videopolis; University Community Video; Global Village; NOVAC; The Kitchen; Long Beach Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; University Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; and WNET/TV Lab.

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