Weigand, Ingrid

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.

Report on the Everson Museum Video Conference. April 11 and 18, 1974 Collections