Moore, Alan

Not on the Shelf: Accounting for New York City Artists' Organizations' Bibliography

Alan Moore, an ex-artist turned scholar, describes his work in and with archives and notes that his personal archive includes a video distribution business. His dissertation traces politicized artists' organizations from the Art Workers Coalition through Art & Language, Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, Collaborative Projects, Political Art Documentation (PADD) and Group Material, spanning roughly 1969 to 1984. He discusses archival mortality, obsolete magnetic-media preservation and digital promises; he recounts a Syracuse experimental-video conference involving Ardele Lister and Ralph Hocking (Experimental TV Center) and references installations by Michael Smith and Josh White that invoke obsolete technologies.

Peter Campus, Andy Mann, Ira Schneider, Tom Marioni at the Everson Museum of Art Bibliography