- Various Articles Bibliography
Created by the Center for Understanding Media, Peter Haratonik and Kit Laybourne. Topics include discussion of important issues, things to do with kids, and examples of working video programs. "Video in a Theraputic Community", Bruce Cost, profiles uses of video at Holy Cross School, Rhinebeck, NY. …
- Introduction Preservation
Looking Back/Looking Forward is a symposium on electronic media preservation organized by the Experimental Television Center; it invited 58 artists, conservators, media arts staff and technical experts and is an activity of the Center’s Video History Project (begun 1994). The Video History Website (launched 2000) hosts nine interrelated databases with about 3,500 records and a Bibliography of over 1,000 entries. The Preservation area includes the commissioned papers Video Preservation and Reel to Real; Bay Area Video Coalition, with NEA funding, will produce a DVD due end of 2002.
- Video History: Making Connections - Seminars
Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History (October 16, 1998) was a day-long seminar introducing curators, critics, librarians, archivists, funders, artists and students to independent video in America (1965–1980); it offered screenings, lectures and discussions on video art, documentary tapes and topics such as portapaks, closed-circuit video, collectives and cable TV. Seminar leader Deirdre Boyle (The New School) presented alongside Barbara London (Curator of Video, MoMA), Paul Ryan (McLuhan fellow) and Parry Teasdale (Videofreex). A full-day Video Preservation session, co-sponsored and organized by Media Alliance and Mona Jimenez, gathered representatives to report on preservation initiatives and funding trends.
- Reports to the Field Preservation
Experimental Television Center convened Looking Back/Looking Forward on May 31–June 1, 2002 at Downtown Community Television Center in New York, bringing over 50 media arts professionals, conservators, technicians and artists to address physical preservation of independent electronic media, related tools and ephemera. Sessions led by BAVC, Artists Television Access, George Eastman House and MoMA examined remastering workflows (including 1/2” open reel), formats, selection strategies, economics, oral histories and web documentation; BAVC received NEA funding to produce a videotape preservation DVD. The Video History Project, launched 2000 and directed by Sherry Miller Hocking with major contribution from Mona Jimenez, maintains resource databases and commissioned papers including Video Preservation: The Basics.
- Preservation
Deirdre Boyle, historian and educator, testified at a 1996 hearing for the Report on the Study of American Television and Video, arguing that omission of video pioneers would render histories of American television and recent American social history incomplete and distorted. The page lists preservation resources: Video Preservation: The Basics by Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez, described as an introduction covering cleaning, storage, cataloging and copyright and including glossaries, a bibliography and links; Reel to Real: A Case Study of BAVC's Remastering Model by Luke Hones, edited by Hocking and Jimenez; Looking Back / Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation; and selected historical texts on preservation.
- Notes on Video as an Artistic Medium 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…