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• Distribution at Galleries, Museums, and Media Centers Collections

  Survey of videotape distribution through U.S. museums, gallery dealers and media centers; contributors include curators and distributors at Whitney, Everson, Berkeley University Art Museum, MoMA, Castelli/Sonnabend, Electronic Arts Intermix, Global Village, The Kitchen and Synapse. Museums package traveling video shows and charge artist fees; distributors and media centers lease or sell tapes to institutions. Betamax/VHS, cable and broadcast are discussed as emerging markets; notable projects include the Whitney's Introduction to Video for the AFA catalog, Everson's Video Anthology, Global Village's Giving Birth and Synapse's planned paid distribution beginning January 1979.

• Video: A Catalogue of the Artists' Videotapes Chronology

  Video: A Catalogue of the Artists' Videotapes published by Distribution Service of Electronic Arts Intermix. Texts by Lori Zippay, Robert Beck, Nicola Smith, Marita Sturken. Tapes available for distribution with descriptions, videographies, bibliography.

• Beyond Video: Media Alliance Directory I Bibliography

  Beyond Video: The Media Alliance Directory I traces the development of video art from the Sony portapak's U.S. arrival circa 1965 through the 1980s; it records early practitioners, guerrilla collectives and nonprofit centers including Young Filmakers/Video Arts (1968) and Global Village (1969). By 1972 at least nine New York organizations supported subsidized production, training and post-production, and academic workshops expanded in the 1970s. AIVF (1974) and ATN (1976) organized around cable and publishing; Anthology Film Archives received tape‑preservation funding in 1983 to transfer late‑1960s–early‑1970s tapes to 3/4" cassettes, and the 1980s brought broader exhibition venues.

• Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium Preservation

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• New York State Council on the Arts Video Conference at the Whitney Museum Bibliography

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• "A Special Videotape Show" Chronology

  A Special Videotape Show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; part of the New American Filmmakers Series organized by David Bienstock. The program presented videotapes by Isaac Abrams, Shridhar Bapat, Stephen Beck, John Randolph Carter, Douglas Davis, Dimitri Devyatkiin, Ed Emshwiller, Richard Felciano, Carol Herzer, Joanne Kyger, Richard Lowenberg, Alwin Nikolais, Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman, Charles Phillips, Terry Riley, Eric Siegel, Skip Sweeney, Aldo Tambellini, Steina and Woody Vasulka, WGBH-TV and Robert Zagone.