- 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.
- Video- Technical Glossary Bibliography
Video- Technical Glossary. Packet includes a glossary of technical terminology for video and a waveform monitor with information on page four.
- American Film and Video: Whitney Biennial Bibliography
Essay by John Hanhardt, Models of Interaction: Film and Video in a New Media Age. Mentions: ETC, Vasulka, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Video Bus.
- Why Don't They Tell Stories Like They Used To? Bibliography
Survey tracing the development, structures, and critical reception of video art from the late 1960s through the early 1980s; locates influences in the visual arts, literature, film, Dada and Surrealism, Fluxus and John Cage, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century theories of perception. Discusses practitioners and works including Nam June Paik (Global Groove, Paik-Abe synthesizer, TV sculptures), Bill Viola (Hatsu Yume), Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, and Juan Downey; notes institutions and events such as the 1974 Open Circuits Conference at MoMA, WNET broadcasts, the Experimental Television Center, and the Whitney Museum.
- Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews Bibliography
The first printed catalog of the Video Data Bank's complete holdings, Feedback offers readers essays on the history of media arts, the Video Data Bank, video activism, experimental performance art, and the On Art and Artists Collection. It includes 325 frame grabs and stills from some of the collect…
- Introduction Preservation
Sherry Miller Hocking's February 2002 introduction surveys efforts to preserve independent videotape and electronic media from the 1960s to 2002; it documents institutions and initiatives including the NEA and AFI, F/TAAC/AMIA, MoMA's 1991 symposium, Playback 1996, BAVC's remastering facility (1995), IMAP (1999), TechArcheology (2000), Preserving the Immaterial (2001) and the Looking Back/Looking Forward symposium (May 31–June 1, 2002). It identifies technical and organizational problems—videotape deterioration, obsolete equipment, dispersed collections and lack of a union catalog—and lists recommended actions such as compatible cataloging, remastering research and facilities, public and educational programs, and broader funding and coalitions.