- Video Art Review Chronology
Anthology Film Archives presented a series of 18 programs titled Video Art Review in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix; program notes accompanied the series. Contributors listed include Nam June Paik, DCTV, Ed Emschwiller, WGBH, Peter Campus, NCET, John Reilly and Stefan Moore, TVTV, Ant Farm, Woody Vasulkas, Steina Vasulka, Skip Blumberg, Skip Sweeney and Richard Foreman.
- Video Art: An Anthology Bibliography
Statements by 73 artists regarding video work edited by publishers of Radical Software. Upstate artists included Ralph Hocking, VBill Viola, Woody Vasulka, Walter Wright. Texts by David Antin, Stephen Beck, Frank Gillette, John Handhardt, Bruce Kurtz, David Ross (The Personal Attitude), Willoughby S…
- Anthology Film Archives Chronology
Anthology Film Archives initiated a video preservation project in 1983 with pilot funding from the New York State Council on the Arts; the project aimed to identify and locate independent video-makers in the United States, borrow and rerecord video works endangered by age or format obsolescence, and preserve the re-recordings under specified temperature/humidity conditions. As of August 1983 work was underway in all three areas; the next issue of Video Texts will present a report on the project's first year.
- Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation: A Progress Report on Initiatives within the Media Arts Field by Media Alliance Preservation
Media Alliance (founded 1979) is a New York State advocacy and service organization for independent media arts that led a 1991 national video survey and symposium with NYSCA, supported Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation (1993), and applied to NEH for a cooperative catalog of over 8,000 titles across twelve New York institutions. The report documents Playback 1996 organized with BAVC (March 29–30, 1996) at the Museum of Modem Art with Getty and Andy Warhol Foundation funding, NAMID/FileMakerPro cataloging pilots producing over 1,800 records, and BAVC remastering and cleaning services for obsolete formats. Jim Hubbard authored the report and created Anthology Film Archives' first computer catalog under NAMID and a Jerome Foundation grant.
- Anthology Film Archives Chronology
Anthology Film Archives presented exhibitions in Spring 1986; one program, TechnoBop III, was curated by Sara Hornbacher and included works by Peer Bode, Tony Conrad, Jane Veeder, Alida Walsh and Maureen Nappi. Other evenings at the Archives featured works by Jody LaFond, Chris Hill, Brian Springer, Julie Zando and Armin Heurich.
- Video Spaces: Eight Installations Bibliography
Survey essay tracing video art from the mid-1960s Portapak to international installations of the early 1990s; discusses technological shifts (half-inch open-reel tape, Paik-Abe image processor, 3/4-inch videocassette) and early exhibitions at MoMA (1968), Howard Wise Gallery (1969), ICA Philadelphia (1975), Centre Pompidou (1990), and Documenta IX (1992). Presents eight environmental video projects and artists with dates and works: Judith Barry/Brad Miskell Ha®dCell (1994), Stan Douglas Evening (1994), Teiji Furuhashi Lovers (1994), Gary Hill Inasmuch as It Is Always Already Taking Place (1990), Chris Marker Silent Movie (1994–95), Marcel Odenbach Make a Fist in the Pocket (1994), Tony Oursler System for Dramatic Feedback (1994), and Bill Viola Slowly Turning Narrative (1992).