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 Symposium Bibliography

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

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.

Video Processing Facility at National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco (c 1972) Tools

At the National Center for Experiments in Television (KQED-TV, San Francisco; c. 1972) Lawrence W. Templeton designed and built a flexible video Mixer to replace conventional two-bus switchers, using patch cords and experimental plug-in modules. The Mixer incorporated keyers, colorizers, a color modulator, an edge generator, feedback delay lines, a multi-keyer and six distribution amplifiers, and accepted inputs from two Sony DXC-2000A B/W cameras, a Sony DXC-5000 color camera and a Beck Direct Video Synthesizer. Circuit engineer Richard Stephens built a handheld remote control switcher; control was also demonstrated via Buchla Electric Music Box control voltages.

Video Programs at Alfred University: 1977-present (1998) Groups

Alfred University's College of Ceramics offers a BFA in Photography (1970) directed by Edward Stanton, with five courses serving 160 students and photographic facilities; the Art Department also offers video and 16mm/super-8 media courses and screens experimental films using cameras and special-effects equipment. A SUNY survey (John Minkowsky, 1977) summarizes four Multi-Media/Media Survey courses emphasizing production, historical/theoretical criticism and new-media exploration. Harland Snodgrass founded the Vegetable Soup Kitchen; the Institute for Electronic Arts, established 1997 and co-directed by Peer Bode, Joseph Scheer and Jessie Shefrin, supports electronic imaging studios and workshops and received a $40,000 SUNY grant in 1996 to install a video server linking four SUNY units.

Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History with Deirdre Boyle, Barbara London, Paul Ryan and Perry Teasdale Bibliography

Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History with Deirdre Boyle, Barbara London, Paul Ryan and Perry Teasdale. Video History: Making Connections, a conference organized by the Experimental Television Center, at Syracuse University.Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video HistoryVideofreex, Radical S…

Video Selection Bibliography

Rental catalog from Videographe. French and English.

Video Services Profile Bibliography

Video Skulptur: retrospectiv und aktuell 1963-1989 Bibliography

in German; texts by John Handhardt, Wulf Herzogenrath, Edith Decker

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).

Video Synthesis 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…

Video Synthesis Studio Background Information- Technical Capabilities: Sandin Image Processor and Peripheral Equipment Useful in Supporting the Image Processor Bibliography

Film/Video Arts Video Synthesis Studio Background Information- Technical Capabilities: Daniel Sandin Image Processor and Peripheral Equipment Useful in Supporting the Image Processor edited by Jon Burris. System Description Includes 6 Input Modules, 8 Adder Multipliers, 9 Mini-Adder Multipliers, 3 A…

Video Tape Survival: The Cleaning, Time Base Correcting and Reformatting of Deteriorating Video Tape for Real to Reel: Artists' Video 1970-72 Preservation

Sharon Grace, artist and Director of the Video Documentation and Archiving Program at the San Francisco Art Institute, organized Real to Reel, Artists' Video 1970-72 presenting 1/2" open-reel work funded by the California Arts Council and San Francisco Art Institute. Grace collected tapes, borrowed playback decks and obtained subsidized use of a Harris 690 time base corrector from BAVC for reformatting. She reported environmental and mechanical causes of tape deterioration, cleaning methods, storage guidance (70 °F and 50% RH) and life-expectancy estimates (about five to ten years for 1/2" reels).

Video Tapes. In German and English. Kolnischer Kunstverein Bibliography

KolnischerKunstverein_519.pdf Ken Dominick; Ralph Hocking; Stephan Kolpan; Woody Vasulka; Stenia Vasulka; Videofreex; William Viola; Walter Wright

Video Technology and Practice Bibliography

Video Texts: 1983 Bibliography

Screenings at AFA 1974-1983

Video Texts: 1983 Bibliography

Bob Harris, Video Curator. Texts by John Hanhardt, Buky Schwartz, Robert Haller. Interviews with Buky Schwartz, Al Robbins, Steina. Video Screenings at Anthology Fil Archives 1974-1983.

Video Visions: A Medium Discovers Itself Bibliography

Influences on video art; early pioneers; mentions of ETC, SAM Downsville Community TV and other upstate groups

Video- Second Big Year: Home Video Hardware and Software Annual Buyer's Guide Bibliography

Illustrated Black and White Catalog of Video Products for sale in 1979. Includes: Videocasette Recorders, Video Cameras, Videodisc Systems, Video Games, Home Computers, Color Televisions, Large-Screen Televisions, Video Accesories, Software Directory. Cover Video Art by Phillip Perlman and Mike Sull…

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.

Video-Generated Photographs: Creating Still Images of the Imagination Bibliography

Mary Ross; Larry Gartel; Peggy Kay; Norman Pollack

Video-Music: New Correlations Bibliography

Video-Music: New Correlations Video works by Sara Hornbacher, Reynold Weidenaar, Shalom Gorewitz, Rii Kanzaki, The Lubies. ETC.

Video-Still Photography: Frozen Moments in Time Bibliography

Video still photography