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Selected Video Art Collections

Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-1980, 8 vols. by [produced by Video Data Bank, in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix and Bay Area Video Coalition ; producer, Kate Horsfield Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight-program package on the history of experimental and independent video curated by Christine Hill was available only on VHS tape. The DVD launch brings this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers.
Call Number: VT 3095 cat. 24 DVD
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, 11 vols. by producers, New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Bick Productions Features eleven of the most important artists worldwide working in film, video, and digital imagery today. Each DVD features the artist's newly commissioned project; an in-depth interview with the artist; an image library of the artist's previous work; and biographical material.
Call Number: VT 2616 cat. 24 DVD (In Library Use Only)
Fluxfilm Anthology Dating from the sixties (1962-1970) and compiled by George Maciunas (37 out of 41), founder of Fluxus, the fluxfilm anthology is a document consisting of 41 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. Elements of ephemeral environments, these films, some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops, were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde.
Call Number: VT 4826 cat. 24 DVD

Recommended Books on Video Art

Video Art by Michael Rush Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-sized buildings or video projections take over the walls of an entire city block.
Call Number: N6494.V53 R87 2007
A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function by Chris Meigh-Andrews Video Art is a critical introduction and guide to artists' video in both Europe and North America. It covers the period from the early 1960s -- when video art first appeared as a distinctive medium -- into the 1990s, when digital technology merged video's distinctive practice with that of independent film-making and photography.
Call Number: N6494.V53 M43 2006
Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art by Gabrielle Jennings (Editor); Kate Mondloch (Foreword by) Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film.
Call Number: N6494.V53 A246 2015
Moving Image (Documents of Contemporary Art) by Omar Kholeif Anthology of critical writings on the moving image.
Call Number: N72.M6 M68 2015
Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach by Helen Westgeest Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art and of the visual mediations we encounter in daily life.
Call Number: N6494.V53 W47 2016
California Video: Artists and Histories by Glenn Phillips (Editor); Meg Cranston (Editor); Rita Gonzalez; Kathy Rae Huffman (Contribution by); Robert R. Riley (Contribution by); Steve Seid; Bruce Yonemoto Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, "California Video" presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California.
Call Number: N6512.5.V53 C35 2008
Video Art: An Anthology by Ira Schneider; Beryl Korot
Call Number: PN1992.8.V5 V5

"Early anthology of video art."
Rewind : Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States, 1968-1980 by Chris Hill, editor ; Kate Horsfield and Maria Troy, collaborating editors
Call Number: N6494.V53 R495
Illuminating Video by Doug Hall; Sally Jo Fifer; David Ross (Foreword by); David Bolt (Preface by) In association with the Bay Area Video Coalition An insightful evaluation of this art form since its early beginnings, examining its theoretical, aesthetic, & social implications.
Call Number: N6494.V53 I4 1990
The Arts for Television by Kathy Rae Huffman; Dorine Mignot; Rosetta Brooks; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: NX180.T44 A78 1987
Video : A Retrospective : Long Beach Museum of Art, 1974-1984 by Kathy Rae Huffman ; managing editors, Connie Fitzsimons and Kira Perov Groundbreaking exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art.
Call Number: PN1992.8.V5 H83 1984
Artists' Video: An International Guide by Lori Zippay (Editor) This multicultural and international survey of artists' videotapes reflects the extraordinary richness and diversity of independent media art production from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Call Number: REF N6494.V53 A78 1991
Feedback: the Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews by Kate Horsfield (Editor); Lucas Hilderbrand (Editor) Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement, the Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The collections include seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960s and continuing to the present.
Call Number: Emerson Main Stacks N6494.V53 F42 2006

Recommended Books on Video Installation

Installation and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes Since the 1960s, artists have systematically explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled environments of galleries and museums, drawing on multiple antecedents in cinema, television and the visual arts. This volume traces this lineage through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, film history, and the ferment of countercultural film and video practices in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Call Number: N72.M6 E44 2015
Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art by Kate Mondloch Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums.
Call Number: E-book
Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot by Melissa Chiu (Editor); Michelle Yun; Asia Society Staff (Other Primary Creator) This new, fully illustrated catalog on the celebrated progenitor of video art, Nam June Paik (1932-2006), brings together a host of scholars, artists and Paik's own collaborators to illuminate the work of this innovative artist.
Call Number: N7369.P35 A4 2014
Walid Raad by Walid Raad (Contribution by); Stuart Comer; Eva Respini; Finbar Barry Flood (Contribution by) Lebanese artist Walid Raad is an influential voice in art from the Middle East. Published for his first comprehensive exhibition in the US, this catalogue surveys three decades of Raad's practice in photography, video and performance.
Call Number: N7276.8.R33 A4 2015

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Recommended Video Art Links

Ars Electronic Archive
Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art
DCTV
Deep Dish TV
The Early Video Project
Electronic Arts Intermix
ETC—Video History Project
Experimental Television Center
Flicker
Marcel Multimedia Research Centres
Media Art Net
Paper Tiger TV
Radical Software
Rhizome
Ubuweb
Video Data Bank
Video Preservation Website
Video Synthesizers Info
Woody and Steina Vasulka

Journal Articles

Holland Cotter, "Video Art Thinks Big: That's Showbiz." The New York Times (Jan 6, 2008): AR1(L)
Sean Cubitt, “Grayscale Video and the Shift to Color,” Art Journal (Fall 2006)
Jean Gagnon, “‘A demo tape on how to play video on the violin,’” Art Journal (Fall 2006)
Mark Godrey, "Pierre Huyghe's Double Spactacle," Grey Room (Summer 2008), 38-61
John G. Hanhardt, “From Screen to Gallery: Cinema, Video, and Installation Art Practices,” American Art(Summer 2008)
Virginia Heffernan, "Pixels at an Exhibition." The New York Times Magazine (May 18, 2008): 20(L).
David Joselit, "Inside the light cube: Pierre Huyghe's Sreamside Day Follies and the Rise of Video Projection," Artforum (March 2004): 154-159.
David Joselit, "Navigating the New Territory: Art, Avatars, and the Contemporary Mediascape," Artforum(Summer 2005): 276-279.
Rosalind Krauss, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism," October (Spring 1976)
Christine Ross, “The Temporalities of Video: Extendedness Revisited,” Art Journal (Fall 2006)
Yvonne Spielmann, “Video: From Technology to Medium,” Art Journal (Fall 2006)
[“Video Art” issue], Studio International 191:981 (May–June 1976)
Anne Wagner, "Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence," October (Winter 2000)

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