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Video History: Making Connections - Tool Developments/People & Machines. Video by Kristin Lucas Bibliography

Video History: Making Connections, a conference organized by the Experimental Television Center, at Syracuse University.Tool Developments/People & MachinesA round-table discussion among some of the early practitioners of video and artists using new interactive technology within installations and web…

Video in America in The New Television: A Public/Private Art Bibliography

Based on "Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television" organized by Fred Barzyk, Douglas Davis, Gerald O'Grady and Willard Van Dyke for the Museum of Modern Art. Categories include the aesthetics of television; support structure; the international setting; politics, philos…

1986 Video in the Park Festival Chronology

Video in the Park Festival. August 4-13, 1986. New York City. Curator was Carlota Schoolman, former curator of video at The Kitchen.

Video Installation 1983 Bibliography

Video Installation 1983: November 5 - December 2 Bibliography

Catalog of installations for Visual Studies Workshop, including works by Barbara Buckner, Tony Conrad, Doug Hall, Margia Kramer and Sill Stephens.

Video Installations Bibliography

Video is Being Invented Bibliography

Nam June Paik is presented as a seminal figure in the emergence of video art; he experimented with television in Germany and Japan, moved to New York in 1964, and with Shuya Abe developed the Video Synthesizer in 1970, producing works such as the T. V. Chair and the Television Bra. The text surveys artists working in video—Keith Sonnier, Linda Benglis, Joan Jonas, Nancy Holt, William Wegman, Michael Snow, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus and George Boiling—and documents practices using portable videotape recorders, live feedback, colorization and synthesized color, video environments, and independent video groups and cable/public-access distribution.

Video Issue Bibliography

Video Journey Through Utopia Bibliography

The founder of the Raindance video collective, artist Frank Gillette, in a public statement in 1991, distinguished between the Fluxus current and the utopian current in video history.https://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_3_27/ai_58470196

1975 "Video Maze" Chronology

'Video Maze' was an exhibition of closed-circuit electronic sculpture by Electron Movers at the Everson Museum of Art, September 26–October 22, 1975; curated by Richard Simmons. The press release described participatory pieces using the museumgoer, emphasizing learning processes and perceptual development while exploring intersections of media; the six-member group—Robert and Dorothy Jungels, Laurie McDonals, Alan Powell, Dennis Hlynsky and Ed Tannenbaum—pooled funds, equipment and responsibilities. The walk-through maze featured video-feedback monitors, a cubicle that superimposed a visitor on a drawing and a dunking-for-apples piece using a hydrophone; a review appeared in the Syracuse Herald American on October 19, 1975.

Video Mind, Earth Mind: Art, Communications and Ecology Bibliography

Forward for educators by John Giancola, forward for art world by Frank Gillette. Earthscore Foundation.

1979 Video Modular System Chronology

Bill Etra, Dan Sandin, Lee Felsenstein, Bill Hearn design Video Modular System

Video Modular System Tools

VMS Video Modular System Video Modular Systems, Berkeley, CA The VMS was designed by Bill Etra of Etra Technology Research Associates, Dan Sandin (University of Chicago, Circle Campus) and Lee Felsenstein, with assistance from Bill Hearn (Electronic Associates of Berkeley). The device could colorize…

Video Mudular Systems. System Features and Components Bibliography

Description of the Video Modular Systems VMS machine. Berkeley CA. System was profiled by Videography magazine in April 1979.

Video Obscura Bibliography

Video Performance Bibliography

Video Performance by Walter Wright with the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer. April 5, 1974. Poster Bibliography

Video Playback: Less is More, and Other Video Verities Bibliography

"While viewing the videotapes in this year?s Global Village Video and Television Documentary Festival, I renewed my Subscription to the "less is more" philosophy. Independent Video began by adhering to this aesthetic out of sheer necessity. With only half-inch black-and-white equipment and either no…

Video Politics: Early Feminist Projects Bibliography

Nancy Cain, Cara DeVito, Julie Gustafson, Optic Nerve

Video Preservation - The Basics Preservation

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Background and History Preservation Terms and Definitions: Publications, Resources and Links Video Terms Getting Started Preservation Planning and Management Preservation and Conservation Organizations - Profiles and Links Care and Handling of Tape Storage Guidelin…

1982 Video preservation and video crtiticism Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Media Program gives first grants for video preservation and video crtiticism

Video Preservation Symposium Bibliography

Conference packet with agenda and list of participants. June 13 -14, 1991 at the Museum of Modern Art.

1992 Video Preservation Task Force. Chronology

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture established a national Video Preservation Task Force.

Video Preservation: A Report from the Trenches Preservation

A Video Data Bank author reports on videotape preservation practice and supervised preservation of the Castelli-Sonnabend collection and the compilation of 65 titles for Surveying the First Decade; core procedures described include transfers among formats (1/2" open reel, 1" IVC, 3/4" U-matic, digital), cleaning, reference copies, two masters, cataloging and storage. He details technical problems (drop-out, skew, deck differences, TBC use) and aesthetic/legal dilemmas about edits and distribution; institutional activity by BAVC, Media Alliance and MoMA and funders such as the Andy Warhol Foundation and Getty Grant Program are noted. Events cited include Playback 1996 (SFMOMA, March 29–30) and Library of Congress hearings in March 1996 in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles; texts by Deirdre Boyle, Jim Hubbard and Jim Lindner are referenced.

Video Preservation: Securing the Future of the Past Preservation

Media Alliance launched a video preservation initiative in 1991 and, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts, convened a symposium at the Museum of Modern Art on June 14, 1991; over 60 participants from as far as San Francisco and Toronto attended and MoMA sponsored an evening screening organized by Barbara London and Sally Berger. Presenters included Elizabeth Scheines, Leanne Mella, Mark Schubin, David Shulman and Deborah Silverfine; topics covered collection assessment, cataloging (MARC and NAMID), conservation technology, cleaning methods, formats and remastering costs. Media Alliance surveyed over 200 people and solicited funding support from NYSCA, NEA, NAMAC, CCUMC, the Benton Foundation and BAVC; Deirdre Boyle authored the report and Mary Esbjornson served as Executive Director and Project Director of the Video Preservation Initiative.