Video art

Resource on video art

Works

Online platforms for video art

• UbuWeb: Film & Video, an online archive of the avant-garde. Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith, UbuWeb.
• Mediakunst.net, an online catalogue bringing together the media art collections of Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) and LIMA. Launched 2018, operated by LIMA. Contact: Gaby Wijers.
• Videokunstarkivet (The Video Art Archive, Norway) is a reference archive for video works produced in Norway or with a connection to Norway from the 1960s and up to today. The online platform records about 3,000 registered works by more than 660 artists and artist groups, of which more than half is available for online viewing (after free registration). Contact: Håvard Oppøyen.
• D'Est: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the former “East” and “West”, Apr 2018-Dec 2020. Curated by Xandra Popescu, Kathrin Becker, Jana Seehusen, Creative Association of Curators TOK (Anna Bitkina & Maria Veits), Inga Lāce, Miona Bogović, Suza Husse, Suzana Milevska, Eva Birkenstock, Ulrike Gerhardt, Naomi Hennig, Nataša Ilić, Jelena Vesić, Katja Kobolt, and Bettina Knaup.
• Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst Video Archive: 30 Artists in Focus

Archives and distributors

Links point to online catalogues.

• Filmform, Stockholm, est 1950. Dir. Anna-Karin Larsson.
• Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley/Cal., est 1966.
• Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, est 1967.
• Experimental Television Center (ETC), Owego/NY, 1969/1971-2011.
• Anthology Film Archives, New York, est 1970. Dir. John Mhiripiri.
• Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, est 1971.
• n.b.k. Video-Forum, Berlin, est 1971.
• Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, est c1971.
• Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Arcueil/FR, est 1971.
• Heure Exquise! Centre international pour les arts vidéo, Mons en Baroeul/FR, est 1975.
• Video Data Bank (VDB), Chicago, est 1976.
• Image Forum, Tokyo, est 1977.
• Hallwalls video collection, Buffalo/NY, since 1977.
• Montevideo, Amsterdam, est. 1978; from 1993 NIMk; since 2013 LIMA.
• Bildwechsel Video collection, Hamburg, est 1979
• Vtape, Toronto, est 1980.
• SCAN, Tokyo, est 1980.
• Video Out Distribution, Vancouver, est 1980.
• Light Cone, Paris, est 1982.
• 235 Media, Cologne, est 1982. Archive transferred to imai in 2006.
• Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, est 1983.
• Videonale, Bonn, est. 1984.
• MWF Video Club, New York, est. 1986.
• AV-arkki. Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, Helsinki, est 1989.
• sixpackfilm, Vienna, est 1990.
• Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels, est 1992.
• Re:Voir, Paris, est 1994.
• Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal, est 1997.
• Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst Video Archive, Aachen, est 1991. [1]
• LUX artists' moving image, London, est 2002.
• Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles, est 2003. Dir. Cindy Keefer.
• Hamaca, Barcelona, est 2005.
• imai – inter media art institute, Düsseldorf, est 2006 (archive transferred from 235 Media).
• Australian Video Art Archive (AVAA), est 2006.
• Videoarchiv NFA, Prague, est. 2020.
• Dinamo distribution network of artists' moving image organizations.

more

See also

• Circulating Video Library, ed. Barbara London, New York: MoMA, 1983, 52 pp.

Resources

• Emergence of Video Art in Europe (1960s–1980s): histories, theories, archives, research program, University Paris 8 (France) and ECAL (Switzerland), 2017-2025. Research team: Grégoire Quenault and François Bovier, with Ségolène Liautaud and Stéphanie Serra. Seminar series organised by INHA and BnF, Paris: 2016, 2017, 2018. [2]

• Video History Project, est. 1994 as a service of Experimental Television Center

• REWIND Artists' Video, est. 2004 by Stephen Partridge; based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (University of Dundee, Scotland).

• Video d’autore. Video arte e film d'artista in Italia, by SCIAMI.

• The Early Video Project by Davidson Gigliotti.

• Video as Urban Condition

• Video Circuits, a blog by Christopher King for and about electronic video artists.

• A Chronology of Events in the First Two Decades of British Video Art

• EWVA European Women’s Video Art of the 1970s and 1980s.

• History and archive of video art in Hungary 1972-2000, eds. Szilvia Seres, Miklós Peternák, C3, Budapest.

• Video Art in Latin America, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2014 ff. Research project.

Artists, groups, initiatives, events

with pages on the Monoskop wiki

• Vito Acconci
• Ant Farm
• April Meetings
• Apsolutno
• Arsenal
• Artterror (Milica Lapčević, Vladimir Šojat)
• Association of Video and Inter-Media Art
• John Baldessari
• Balázs Béla Studio
• BARLA
• BAVC Media
• Lynda Benglis
• Dunja Blažević
• Skip Blumberg
• Gábor Bódy
• Vera Bódy
• Barbara Borčić
• Luchezar Boyadjiev
• Deirdre Boyle
• Brigataes
• Klaus vom Bruch
• Wojciech Bruszewski
• Michał Brzeziński
• Andrea Callard
• CAYC
• Anetta Mona Chisa
• Mário Chromý
• Pavlína Fichta Čierna
• Cinenova
• Colab
• David Cort
• Călin Dan
• Anna Daučíková
• Douglas Davis
• Petko Dourmana
• Juan Downey
• Nuša and Srečo Dragan
• Juraj Dudáš
• Ľubomír Ďurček
• Ex Oriente Lux
• Valie Export
• VALIE EXPORT
• Richard Fajnor
• Ivan Faktor
• FAVIT
• Film Form Workshop
• Péter Forgács
• Hollis Frampton
• French-Baltic-Nordic Video and New Media Festival
• Ivan Ladislav Galeta
• Bulat Galeyev
• Roman Galovský
• Paul Garrin
• General Idea
• Frank Gillette
• Marran Gosov
• Marina Gržinić
• Izabella Gustowska
• David Hall
• DeeDee Halleck
• Gustav Hamos
• Inger Lise Hansen
• Vladimír Havrilla
• Geneviève Hervé
• Chris Hill
• Gary Hill
• Nancy Holt
• Peter Agat Huba
• Kathy Rae Huffman
• Infermental
• Insert - Retrospective of Croatian Video Art
• Les Insoumuses
• Sanja Iveković
• Marty St. James
• Tiia Johannson
• Joan Jonas
• Anu Juurak
• Kai Kaljo
• Raivo Kelomees
• Ando Keskküla
• Michal Kindernay
• Kinema Ikon
• Chris King
• Željko Kipke
• Ryszard Kluszczyński
• Vladimír Kordoš
• Beryl Korot
• Piotr Krajewski
• Tamara Krikorian
• Shigeko Kubota
• George Kuchar
• Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska
• Paweł Kwiek
• The Laboratory of Presentational Techniques
• Ly Lestberg
• Les Levine
• LI-MA
• Lithuanian Art 1989-1999. The Ten Years
• Lodz-Kaliska Group
• Barbara London
• Eckart Lottmann
• Manu Luksch
• Irene Lusztig
• Stuart Marshall
• Dalibor Martinis
• Dóra Maurer
• Martin Mazanec
• The Media Are With Us
• Media Culpa
• Medienoperative Berlin e.V.
• Peter Igor Meluzín
• Antoni Mikołajczyk
• Susan Milano
• Era Milivojević
• Robert Morris
• Michal Murin
• Deimantas Narkevicius
• Bruce Nauman
• Ilona Németh
• Netochka Nezvanova
• Miroslav Nicz
• Yoko Ono
• Oslo Screen Festival
• Ostranenie (forum)
• Nam June Paik
• Paper Tiger TV
• Yach Paszkiewicz
• Alexandru Patatics
• Radek Pilař
• Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists
• Pärnu International Film and Video Festival
• Rabotnik TV
• Radical Software
• Raindance Foundation
• Józef Robakowski
• Ellen J Røed
• Mirosław Rogala
• Peter Rónai
• Ulrike Rosenbach
• Martha Rosler
• Paul Ryan
• Ira Schneider
• Gerry Schum
• Richard Serra
• Delphine Seyrig
• Eric Siegel
• Liina Siib
• Petr Skala
• Krzysztof Skarbek
• ŠKUC
• Ivar Smedstad
• Keith Sonnier
• Hito Steyerl
• Mladen Stilinović
• Student Cultural Center Belgrade
• Sub Voce
• Superflex
• Aldo Tambellini
• Ivan Tatíček
• Team T
• Krassimir Terziev
• The Hidden Decade
• Raša Todosijević
• Biljana Tomić
• Milica Tomić
• Jaan Toomik
• Transmediale
• Goran Trbuljak
• Florin Tudor
• TV as a Creative Medium
• TV as a Creative Medium
• TVTV
• Twilight
• UbuWeb
• László Újvárossy
• Marco Vanoppen
• Steina and Woody Vasulka
• Mona Vătămanu
• Vector Hack
• Maria Vedder
• Video CD
• Video-Forum
• Videofreex
• Videomedeja
• Videonale
• Bill Viola
• Wolf Vostell
• Sorin Vreme
• Ryszard Waśko
• Peter Weibel
• Jeremy Welsh
• Teresa Wennberg
• Gaby Wijers
• Howard Wise Gallery
• Piotr Wyrzykowski
• Xfilm
• Yach-Film
• Dušan Zahoranský
• Jiří Žák
• Grzegorz Zgraja

Artists (cont.)

Peggy Ahwesh, Francis Alÿs, Atlas Group, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben Ner, Sadie Benning, Dara Birnbaum, Colin Campbell, Peter Campus, Aleesa Cohene, Phil Collins, Omer Fast, Fischli & Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Halflifers, Mike Kelley, Michael Klier, Sharon Lockhart, Deirdre Logue, Paul McCarthy, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Muntadas, Annabel Nicholson, Dennis Oppenheim, Charlemagne Palestine, Lis Rhodes, Christoph Schlingensief, John Smith, Lisa Steele, Surveillance Camera Players, Sam Taylor-Wood, Ryan Trecartin, Hannah Wilke, Artur Żmijewski, Isabel Pérez del Pulgar, Nestor Rodríguez, Lisi Prada, Luis Carlos Rodríguez, Mikel Otxoteko

Artists' writings, catalogues

Magazines

Radical Software magazine, 1970-74, Log, PDFs.

• Radical Software, 11 issues, eds. Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider, New York: Raindance, 1970-1974, Log, PDFs. (English)

• Bit International 8-9: "Television Today / Televizija danas", ed. Vera Horvat-Pintarić, 1972, 245 pp. Includes texts on the first video experiments. (Serbo-Croatian)/(English),(French),(German),(Italian)

• Avalanche 9: "Video Performance", ed. Liza Bear, New York: Kineticism Press, May-Jun 1974, 29 pp. [3] (English)

• Videoscope: The Magazine of Videotape Source Information, eds. John L. Reilly and Karen Mooney, Gordon & Breach, 1976-1979. Sections: 1(2), 1(4), 1(4). [4] [5]

• Spot: Review of Photography 10: "Video", ed. Radoslav Putar, Zagreb: Grafički zavod Hrvatske, 1977. (Serbo-Croatian),(English)

• The Independent: Film & Video Monthly, New York: Foundation for Independent Video and Film, 1978-2006. [6] (English)

• Mediamatic, quarterly, 39 numbers, eds. Willem Velthoven and Jans Possel, Groningen (1985-Jan 1987) & Amsterdam (Apr 1987-1999): Mediamatic, Dec 1985-1999. (English)

Exhibition catalogues

TV as a Creative Medium, New York, 1969, PDF.

Video Art, Philadelphia, 1975, PDF.

The Video Show, London, 1975, PDF.

Video Spaces: Eight Installations, New York, 1995, PDF.

For historical surveys and retrospectives see section below.

• TV as a Creative Medium, New York: Howard Wise Gallery, 1969, [8] pp. Exh. held 17 May-14 Jun 1969. Reviews: Yalkut (Arts), Time, Skidmore, Harrington (Village Voice). Commentaries: Margolies (Arts in America 1969), Sturken (Afterimage 1984). EAI resource. (English)

• Lagerkatalog 1969, Munich: P.A.P. Progressive Art Production, 1969, [120] pp. (German),(English)

• Land Art, eds. Gerry Schum and Ursula Schum-Wevers, Hanover: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum Television Gallery, 1970. TV exh. held Apr 1969. (German)

• Gennaio 70., 3a Biennale internazionale della giovane pittura, Bologna: Alfa, 1970. Held 31 Jan-28 Feb 1970. (Italian)

• VideObelisco: Art Video Recording, AVR. Video libro, No. 1, ed. Francesco Carlo Crispolti, Rome: Galleria dell'Obelisco, 1971, 32 pp. Exh. held from 14 May 1971. [7] (Italian)/(English)

• Action / Film / Video, Lausanne: Galerie Impact, 1972. Exh. held 12-18 May 1972. (French)

• Videotapes. Askevold - Baldessari - Beuys - Brouwn - Buren - de Dominicis - Dibbets - Gilbert & George - Knoebel - Merz - Rinke - Roehr - Rückriem Serra - Ruthenbeck - Sonnier - Le Va - Weiner - Walther. La Biennale di Venezia. Italian Pavillon, Düsseldorf: Videogalerie Gerry Schum, 1972. Exh. held Jun-Oct 1972.

• Circuito chiuso aperto, Acireale: Palazzo Comunale, 1972, [91] pp. VI Rassegna d'Arte Contemporanea "Acireale Turistico-Termale," Acireale, Palazzo Comunale, 24 Sep-15 Oct 1972. Curated by Mussa and F. C. Crispolti. (Italian)

• Video, Rotterdam: Lijnbaancentrum, 1973. Exh. held 9 Feb–12 Mar 1973. (Dutch)

• Trigon 73, Graz: Künstlerhaus, and Neue Galerie Graz, 1973. Festival held 6 Oct–11 Nov 1973. (German),(English)

• Video Circuits, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, 1973, 21 pp. Exh. held 4 Dec 1973-2 Jan 1974. (English)

• Fotomedia. Die Erfahrungen italienischer künstler im umgang mit foto und videotape, ed. Daniela Palazzoli, Dortmund: Dortmund Museum, 1974. Exh. held 10 Mar-28 Apr 1974. (German)/(Italian)

• Nuovi media. Film e videotape, Milan: Centro Documentazione e Ricerche Jabik, 1974. Exh. held 27-31 May 1974. (Italian)

• Projekt '74. Kunst bleibt Kunst, Cologne: Kunsthalle, 1974, 433 pp. Held 6 Jul-8 Sep 1974. Excerpt. (German)
  • Video Tapes / Video Bänder, ed. Wulf Herzogenrath, Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1974, [40] pp, IA. Exh. held 6 Jul-8 Aug 1974. (German)

• Impact Art Video Art 74, Lausanne: Galerie Impact, 1974, PDF. Exh. held 8-15 Oct 1974. [8] [9] (French)

• Art Video Confrontation 1974, Paris: Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1974. Exh. held 8 Nov-8 Dec 1974. (French)

• Videoperformance, ed. Willoughby Sharp, New York, 1974. Works by Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Dennis Oppenheim, Ulrike Rosenbach, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Keith Sonnier, William Wegman. Special issue of Avalanche magazine, number 9. Held at 112 Greene Street, Gallery, NY, Nov? 1974. [10] (English)

• Castelli-Sonnabend Videotapes and Films, New York: Castelli-Sonnabend Tapes and Films, Nov 1974, 216 pp. (English)

• Videoscape: An Exhibition of Video Art, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1974, [68] pp, IA. Exh. held 20 Nov 1974-1 Apr 1975. (English)

• EXPRMNTL 5, ed. Media Studio Buffalo, 1975. Festival held 25 Dec 1974–2 Jan 1975. (French)/(English)

• Americans in Florence: Europeans in Florence: Videotapes Produced by Art/Tapes/22, , Florence: Centro Di, 1974. Exh. held 12 Jan-16 Feb 1975; curated by David Ross and Maria Gloria Bicocchi; organised by the Long Beach Museum of Art. [11] [12] (English)

• Video Art, ed. David Antin, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1975. Antin's essay. Exh. held in Philadelphia (17 Jan-28 Feb 1975), Cincinnati, Chicago, and Hartford/CT. [13] (English)

• Galleria del Cavallino, 1975: esposizioni, films, videotapes, 14 gennaio 1975 - 10 gennaio 1976, Venice: Galleria del Cavallino, 1975, [60] pp. [14] (Italian)

• Rencontre internationale ouverte de video, Paris: Espace Pierre Cardin, 1975, [23] pp. Exh. held 20—25 Feb 1975; organised by the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC), Buenos Aires. (French)

• Videotapes, Venice: Galleria del Cavallino, 1975, [5] pp. Exh. held from 22 Feb 1975. (Italian)

• The Video Show: Festival of Independent Video, London: Serpentine Gallery, 1975, PDF. Exh. held 1-26 May 1975. REWIND resource. Hall's review. [15] (English)

• Galeria Współczesna 5: "Video", Warsaw: Galeria Współczesna, May 1975. (English),(French),(Polish)

• Third International Open Encounter on Video, Buenos Aires: Center of Art and Communication (CAYC), 1975, [36] pp. Exh. held at the Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Palazzo dei diamanti, Ferrara, Italy, 25-29 May 1975; organised by the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC), Buenos Aires. Excerpt. [16] (English)

• Foto-Film-Video. Deutsch-Französisches Symposion Neuenkirchen, Galerie Falazik: Neuenkirchen, 1975, [130] pp. Exh. held 31 May-21 Jun 1975. (German)

• Video International, Aarhus: Kunstmuseum, 1976. Exh. held 10-22 Feb 1976. (English)

• Art Vidéo: recherches et expériences. Bauermeister, Minkoff, Olesen, Otth, Urban, Paris: Porde de la Suisse, 1976. Exh. held 10-13 Mar 1976. (French)

• Video: Towards Defining an Aesthetic, ed. Tamara Krikorian, Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1976, 32 pp. Exh. held at the Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 16-21 Mar 1976. (English)

• Video Art: An Overview, San Francisco: SFMOMA, 1976, [6] pp. Exh. curated by Suzanne Foley; held 23 Mar-18 Apr 1976. Exh. of 33 videotapes by 29 artists; installations by Peter Campus, Paul and Marlene Kos, Nam June Paik; events and performances. [17] (English)

• SAVI 74. Des TV qui se cherchent, ed. Sonor SA, Geneva, 1976, 180 pp. First edition of video fair. (French)

• Video-Art, Lublin: Galeria Sztuki LDK Labirynt, 1976, [13] pp. Exh. held 5-6 Oct 1976. (Polish),(English)

• Artists' Video: An Alternative Use of the Medium, 5 vols., eds. Brian Hoey and Wendy Brown, Tyne and Wear: Biddick Farm Arts Centre, 1976-1980, 24 / 28 / 24 / 28 / ? pp. Exh. held at Washington New Town Centre (Washington, Tyne & Wear), 19-30 Oct 1976; 17-29 Oct 1977; 23 Oct-4 Nov 1978; 29 Oct-11 Nov 1979. [18] (English)

• Identitet. IV susret u Motovunu / Identità. IV incontro a Motovun. Projects and Video, Venice: Edizioni del Cavallino, 1977, [34] pp. Exh. held 1976. Excerpt. Excerpt. [19] [20] (Serbo-Croatian)/(Italian)

• Video & Film Manifestatie: kijken en doen, eds. Alexander van Grevenstein and Ton Quik, Maastricht: Bonnefantenmuseum, 1977, [77] pp. Catalogue in 6 parts; exh. held 11 Feb-20 Mar 1977. (Dutch),(English),(French)

• Seventh International Open Encounter on Video, Buenos Aires: Center of Art and Communication (CAYC), 1977. Exh. held 23—25 Feb 1977; organised by the Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, and the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC), Buenos Aires. (English)

• Germano Celant, OffMedia: nuove tecniche artistiche: video, disco, libro, trans. J. Fano, B. Collinge and C. Lotz, Bari: Dedelo Libri, 1977, 187 pp. Incl. "Videochronology" pp 71-73. Exh. held in Bari, Mar 1977. [21] [22] (Italian)/(English)

• Video, ed. Adelina von Fürstenberg, Geneva: Association pour un Musée d’art moderne, and Basel: Stampa, 1977. Exh. held Apr-May 1977.

• documenta 6, Kassel, 1977. Video art section curated by Wulf Herzogenrath.

• Videotapes by Women. From the Los Angeles Women’s Video Centre, Melbourne: George Paton Gallery, 1977. Exh. held 26 Oct-3 Nov 1977. (English)

• Japan Video Art Festival: 33 Artists at CAYC, Buenos Aires: Center of Art and Communication (CAYC), 1978, [20] pp. Exh. held Apr 1978.

• Video Art 78: An International Festival of Video Art, Coventry: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, 1978, 32 pp. Exh. held 6-12 May 1978. (English)

• Nuovi media: fotografia, cinema, videotape, performance, eds. Guido Sartorelli and Toni Toniato, Venice, 1978, 60 pp. Exh. held 4-20 May 1978. Excerpt. [23] (Italian)

• Swiss Video Repères, Lausanne: Musée des Beaux-arts de Lausanne, 1978. Exh. held in Sep 1978. (French)

• Joanne Kelly, Video Free America Presents, San Francisco, 1978/1979, 87 pp. [24] [25]

• Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto, ed. Barbara J. London, New York: MoMA, 1979, 32 pp. Exh. held at MOMA, 19 Apr-19 Jun 1979. (English)

• Video im Abendland. Videoworkshop, Stuttgart: Künstlerhaus, 1979, 28 pp. Workshop held 23 Sep-7 Oct 1979. [26] (German)

• Videowochen Essen '79 / Videoweeks Essen '79, ed. Zdenek Felix, Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1979. Held 28 Oct-16 Dec 1979. (German)

• Cinco artistas suizos / Five Swiss Artists, Buenos Aires: CAYC (Center of Art and Communication), 1980. Held 25 Feb-Mar 1980. (French),(English)

• Art and Artists from the Video Data Bank, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1980, [18] pp. Catalogue of programs. [27] (English)

• Installation: Video, an Exhibition of Diagrams, Documentation and Video Installations, intro. G. Roger Denson and Kathy High, Buffalo, NY: Hallwalls, 1981. Exh. held 9-30 May 1980. [28] (English)

• VideoArt Festival International d'Art Video, Locarno, 1980-2001. Online archive. (French)
  • Cinegraphia. La linea in movimento / The Line in Movement / La ligne en mouvement, Locarno: Edizioni Flaviana Locarno, 1980, 117 pp. Part of VideoArt Festival Locarno. Excerpt. Festival held 1-10 Aug 1980. (Italian),(English),(French)

• Video - eine neue Kunst, ed. Robert Lemke, Marl: Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, 1981, 60 pp. Exh. held 29 Apr-17 May 1981. (German)

• XVI Sao Paulo Biennial: Video from Yugoslavia, ed. Davor Maticevic, Zagreb: Gallery of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 1981, 8 pp. (English)

• Cinema off e videoarte a New York, eds. Ester de Miro and Germano Celant, Genova: Bonini, 1981, 223 pp. (Italian)

• Plan K: Festival international de musique électronique, video et computer art / International Festival voor Elektronische Muziek, Video en Computer Art, Brussels, 1981, 142 pp. [29] (French)/(Dutch)

• Video Maart. Video Studio Jan van Eyck, ed. Elsa Stansfield, Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie, 1981, 93 pp. David Hall's essay. (Dutch),(English),(French),(German)

• Vor-Film. Video, Europäische Videotheken, Munich: Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, 1981. Exh. held at the Städische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 20 Oct–1 Nov 1981. (German)

• Pour un art vidéo. Expérience de la vidéothèque de Ferrare, ed. Janus, Paris: MNAM Pompidou, and Ferrara: Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, 1982, [18] pp. Exh. held in Paris, May-Jun 1982. (Italian)/(French)

• World Wide Video Festival catalogues, The Hague/Amsterdam, 1982-2003. [30]
  • World Wide Video Festival Catalogue, The Hague: Kijkhuis, 1982, 56 pp. Held 2-5 Sep 1982. (Dutch)

• Art vidéo: rétrospectives et perspectives, ed. Laurent Busine, Charleroi: Plaias des Beaux-Arts, 1983, 55 pp, PDF. Exh. held 5 Feb-27 Mar 1983. (French)

• Video Data Bank: Video Tape Review, 83, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1983, 22 pp. Catalogue of programs. (English)

• Videokunst: video installaties en videotapes uit Nederland, ed. Ingrid Haan, Middelburg: De Vleeshal, 1983, [8] pp. (Dutch)

• Women & the Media: New Video, ed. William Olander, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1984, 20 pp, JPG. Artists: Max Almy, Anna-Marie Arnold, Judith Barry, Dara Birnbaum, Lyn Blumenthal, Nancy Buchanan, Cecilia Condit, Margia Kramer, Martha Rosler, Ilene Segalove, Lisa Steele, Janice Tanaka, Erika Rothenberg. Exh. held 18 Apr-27 May 1984. (English)

• Het Lumineuze beeld / Luminous Image, ed. Gary Schwartz, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984, viii+194 pp, PDF, IA. Exh. curated by Dorine Mignot; symposium organised by Elsa Stansfield. Exh. of 22 video-installations (17 of them commissioned for the show) by European and American artists; held 14 Sep-28 Oct 1984. Poster. [31]. Video documentation (60 min). Reviews: Zippay (Art J 1985), Duguet & Andrews (Camera Obscura, 1985). (Dutch)/(English)

• Videoase, eds. Patrick Drijver, Erik Eshuis and Peter Scholten, Enschede: Markt 17, 1984, 40 pp. Festival held 26-28 Sep 1984.

• New Video Japan, New York: American Federation of Arts, 1985, 37 pp. Exh. held at MoMA, 16 Jan-2 Mar 1985; curated by Barbara London. (English)

• Eu-video '85. L’immagine elettronica. Tendenze europee a confronto, ed. Lola Bonora, Bologna: Centro Videoarte Palazzo dei Diamanti, 1985, 61 pp. Exh. held 16-19 Feb 1985. (Italian)

• Image on the Run: Dutch Video Art of the 80's, ed. Rob Perrée, The Hague: International Dept. of the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, 1985, 59 pp. Exh. held at The Kitchen, New York, Apr? 1985. (English)

• Video/Art/Video: Utställning - Installationer, Experiment, Stockholm: Konstavdelningen, Stockholms kulturförvaltning, 1985, 87 pp. Exh. held at the Galleriet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2 Nov 1985–6 Jan 1986. [32] (Swedish)

• Video Data Bank: Video Tape Review, 84, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1985, [12] pp. Catalogue of programs. [33] (English)

• Video Data Bank: On Art and Artists, 85, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1985, 64 pp. Catalogue of programs. [34] (English)

• Video Data Bank: Video Tape Review, 86, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1986, 94 pp. Catalogue of programs. [35] (English)

• AVÉ experimenteel: internationaal audiovisueel festival catalogues, Arnhem: Stichting AVÉ, 1986-1995. [36]

• Vidéo, ed. René Payant, Montreal: Artexte, 1986, 263 pp. Published in conjunction with video installations held in various museums and galleries in Montréal in the fall of 1986. Incl. essay with historical survey of video in 9 countries, and texts of 18 lectures given during the Video 84 symposium. (French)/(English)

• Video and Language. Video as Language, 1986, [6] pp. Curated by Scott Rankin at VideoLace, 4 Dec 1986-18 Jan 1987. (English)

• documenta 8, 3 vols., Kassel: Weber & Weidemeyer, 1987. Exh. held 12 Jun-20 Sep 1987. (German)/(English) Issue of Mediamatic dedicated to the exhibition.

• Het magnetische beeld, eds. Anke van der Laan and Elsa Stansfield, Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie, and Heerlen: Heerlen, 1988. Exh. held at Stadsgalerij Heerlen, 9 Oct-20 Nov 1988, 48 pp. [37] (Dutch)/(English)

• Video Positive '89: Merseyside’s International Video Festival, Liverpool: Merseyside Moviola, 1989, [6] pp, PDF. (English)

• Sub Voce: Contemporary Hungarian Video Installation, ed. Suzanne Mészöly, Budapest: Soros Foundation Fine Art Documentation Center - Mucsarnok, 1991, 75 pp. Exhibition. [38] (English)/(Hungarian)

• Video Positive 91, ed. Nik Houghton, Liverpool: Moviola, 1991, 71 pp. Review: Partridge (Variant 1991). (English)

• Ostranenie: 1. Internationales Videofestival am Bauhaus Dessau, 4.-7.11.1993: erschütterte Mythe, neue Realitäten: Osteuropa im Focus der Videokamera / 1. Meždunarodnyj videofestival v Bauchaus Dessau: poshatnuvshiesya myfy, novaya deystvitelnost: vostochnaya Evropa v fokuse videokamery / 1. International Video Festival at the Bauhaus Dessau: Shattered Myths, New Realities: Video Focus on Eastern Europe, eds. Inke Arns and Elisabeth Tharandt, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1993, 499 pp. Selected texts: Erjavec, Arns, Sei, Kovats, Kuhn, Milev, Sobetzko, Czegledy, Performances, more. Event. [39] [40] (German),(Russian),(English)

• Ex oriente lux, ed. Cãlin Dan, Bucharest: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, 1994, 111 pp. Exhibition. (Romanian)/(English)

• Video, vidím, ich sehe: Installationen: slowakische, tschechische und schweizerische Videokunst / Video, vidím, ich sehe: inštalácie: slovenské, české a švajčiarske videoumenie, eds. Esther Maria Jungo and Katarína Rusnáková, Bern, 1994, 145 pp. (German),(Slovak),(Czech)

• Video Positive '95: the UK's International Festival of Electronic Arts, eds. Lisa Haskel and Lowena Faull, Liverpool: Moviola, 1995, 56 pp. Exh. held at Tate Gallery Liverpool and other sites, 29 Apr-4 Jun 1995. (English)

• Video Spaces: Eight Installations, ed. Barbara London, New York: MoMA, 1995. Exh. held at MoMA, 22 Jul-12 Sep 1995. Online companion. (English)

• OSTranenie '95: das internationale Video-Forum an der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau / The International Video Forum at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: Video, Installation, Performance, Workshop: 8.-12. November, eds. Mirja Rosenau, Stephen Kovats, Thomas Munz, and Tina Rehn, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1995, 403+14 pp. Event. [41] [42] (German)/(English)

• Orbis Fictus: nová média v současném umění / New Media in Contemporary Arts, eds. Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková, Prague: Sorosovo centrum současného umění, 1995, 228 pp. Texts by Michael Bielický, Michal Bregant, Radúz Činčera, Ludvík Hlaváček, Gerald O'Grady, Karel Pech, Jiří Valoch, Woody Vasulka and Jiří Zemánek. Exhibition held at the National Gallery / Valdštejnská jízdárna [Valdstein Riding School], Prague, 30 Nov 1995-1 Jan 1996. TOC. [43] (Czech)/(English)

• Video Positive 97: Escaping Gravity, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 1997, 40 pp. (English)

• Ostranenie '97: Dessau 5.-9. Dezember 1977: das internationale Forum elektronischer Medien / the International Electronic Media Forum, eds. Mirja Rosenau and Stephen Kovats, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1997, 553 pp. Event. [44] [45] (German)/(English)

• Projected Allegories, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1998, 20 pp. (English)

• Ostranenie 93 95 97, ed. Stephen Kovats, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1999. CD-ROM, Mac & PC. Documents the works and impressions of over 400 artists, critics, academics and journalists from 32 countries who participated in the Ostranenie events from 1993 to 1997. Produced by the Studio Electronic Media Interpretation of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with C3 - Soros Foundation Budapest. Event. [46] [47]

• Balkan Video Federation, ed. Branislav Dimitrijević, Belgrade: Center for Contemporary Art - Belgrade, 2000, [55] pp. (English)

• Tele-Journeys, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2002, 46 pp. Organised by Joan Jonas, with Jane Farver; essay by Jens Hoffmann. [48] (English)

• Point of View: A Contemporary Anthology of the Moving Image, New York: New Museum, 2003. 11 DVDs. [49] [50] (English)

Notable exhibitions without catalogues

• Women's Video Festival, The Kitchen, New York, 1972-1980.

Monographs

• Dan Graham, Video-Architecture-Television: Writings on Video and Video Works 1970-1978, ed. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and New York: New York University Press, 1979, 89 pp; repr., Lars Müller Publishers, 2013. With two contributions by Michael Asher and Dara Birnbaum. Lead essay. [51]

• Hollis Frampton, Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981, forew. Annette Michelson, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp.

• On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton, ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp.

Anthologies

• Video Art: An Anthology, eds. Ira Schneider and Beryl Korot, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, 286 pp, IA. Seventy video artists were each given two pages to present information about their work in any form they chose. Also contains documents such as Shigeko Kubota’s “Anthology Film Archives Video Program,” and essays by David Antin, Stephen Beck, Eric Cameron, Douglas Davis, Anne Focke, Peter Frank, Hermine Freed, Davidson Gigliotti, Frank Gillette, John Hanhardt, Wulf Herzogenrath, Bruce Kurtz, David Ross, Bill Viola, Ingrid Weigand, and Willoughby Sharp. TOC.

• Video by Artists, ed. Peggy Gale, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1976, 223 pp. [52]

• Video by Artists 2, ed. Elke Town, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1986, 151 pp. [53]

• Tellus 17: "Video Arts Music", eds. Claudia Gould, Joseph Nechvatal, and Carol Parkinson, New York, 1987. Special issue of audio cassette magazine.

• Video Re/View: The (Best) Source for Critical Writings on Canadian Artist's Video, eds. Peggy Gale and Lisa Steele, Toronto: Art Metropole, and V-tape, 1996, 492 pp, IA. Publisher.

• Source texts on video art, in Media Art Net, eds. Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, 2004.

• Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology, ed. Jackie Hatfield, forew. Sean Cubitt and Al Rees, Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2006, 302 pp. Forty artists have contributed images, and 25 artists reflect on the diverse critical agendas, contexts, and communities that have affected their practice across the period from the late 1960s to date. [54] [55]

• Video Writings by Artists (1970-1990), ed. Eugeni Bonet, Milan: Mousse, 2017, 309 pp. [56]

Articles

• Karen Mooney, "Women in Video", Videoscope 1:4, 1977, pp 39-43. [57]

Miscellaneous

• Julie Gustafson, Karen Mooney, The Independent Producer, Public Television, and the New Video Technologies: A Resource Book, intro. John Reilly, New York: Global Village, 1980. [58]

Reception, history

For publications on individual artists and collectives see their respective pages.

Exhibition catalogues

The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties, Banff, New York, Amsterdam, Toronto, Long Beach, London, 1983, PDF.

Imago, fin de siècle in Dutch Contemporary Art, 1990, PDF.

Eigenwelt Der Apparate-Welt: Pioneers of Electronic Art, 1992, Log.

Mediascape, New York, 1996, IA.

• Video '79. Video, the First Decade / Dieci anni di videotape, Rome: Kane, 1979, 252 pp. (English)/(Italian)

• Videoarte a Palazzo dei Diamanti 1973/1979, ed. Janus, Torino: Provincia di Torino, 1980, 159 pp. Exh. held at the Foyer della Camera di commercio, Torino, Apr 1980. (Italian)

• Videokunst in Deutschland 1963-1982, ed. Wulf Herzogenrath, Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1982, 319 pp. Excerpt. Includes chapters on “Videotapes,” “Videoinstallation,” “Video-Objects,” and “Videoperformances” covers some one hundred artists, and includes biographies, videographies, and many black-and-white photographs. Essays by Wulf Herzogenrath, Helmut Friedel, Nam June Paik, Ulrike Rosenbach, Friederike Pezold, and Kaus von Bruch; a rare 1969 letter from Gerry Schum to Gene Youngblood; and an interview with Joseph Beuys. Exh. held at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 6 Jun-18 Jul 1982, also shown at MoMA (1982). (German)

• Inovacije u Hrvatskoj umjetnosti sedamdesetih godina, ed. Boris Kelemen, Zagreb: Gallery of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 1982. Excerpt. (Serbo-Croatian),(English)

• The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties, ed. Lorne Falk, Banff, CA: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, 1983, 111 pp. Exh. of 30 works by artists from CA, US, UK, BE, NL, West Germany and PL; curated by Peggy Gale (A Space Toronto), Kathy Huffman (Long Beach), Barbara London (MoMA), Brian MacNevin (Banff), Dorine Mignot (Stedelijk), and Sandy Nairne (ICA London); held at Banff Centre, 8-21 Jul 1983; MoMA, New York, 18 Aug-27 Sep 1983; Stedelijk M, Amsterdam, 9 Sep-16 Oct 1983; A Space, Toronto, 1-29 Oct 1983; Long Beach M of Art, Long Beach, 20 Nov 1983-15 Jan 1984; ICA, London, 16 Dec 1983-15 Jan 1984. Review: Zippay (Art J 1985).

• New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967-1980, ed. John G. Hanhardt, New York: Whitney Museum, 1984, 8 pp.​ Exh. held 13 Jun-1 Jul 1984. [59]

• Video: A Retrospective. Long Beach Museum of Art, 1974-1984, ed. Kathy Rae Huffman, Long Beach, CA: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1984, 135 pp. Two-part exh. held 9 Sep-4 Nov 1984 and 25 Nov 1984-20 Jan 1985. [60] (English)

• Resolution: A Critique of Video Art, ed. Patti Podesta, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), 1986, 131 pp, IA. Survey of video works made in the US from 1980-85. [61]

• Social Engagement: Women's Video in the 80s, ed. Lucinda Furlong, New York: Whitney Museum, 1987. Exh. held at Whitney, 3-20 Mar 1987. Exh. review: NYT, NYT. [62]

• Video de femmes, 1987, 10 pp, IA. Exh. held 8-11 Apr 1987. (French)

• Revision: Art Programmes of European Television Stations, ed. Dorine Mignot, pref. Wim A.L. Beeren, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1987, 100 pp. Curated by Dorine Mignot. (English)

• The Arts for Television, eds. Kathy Rae Huffman and Dorine Mignot, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, and Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1987, 104 pp. Historical survey of arts programmes arranged in 6 thematic sections: image, theatre, literature, dance, music, television. Works from 1966-1987 by 102 artists from AT, BE, FR, DE, IT, JP, NL, UK, US, YU. Curated by Dorine Mignot (Stedelijk) and Kathy Rae Huffman (Contemporary Art Television Fund Boston), with participation of Julie Lazar (MOCA LA). Exh. held at Stedelijk Amsterdam, 4 Sep-18 Oct 1987; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 6 Oct-15 Nov 1987; MoMA New York, 20 Apr-30 May 1989; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 10 Jun-16 Jul 1989.

• Memoria del video, 1. La distanza della storia: vent'annni di eventi video in Italia raccolti da Luciano Giaccari, Milan: Nuova Prearo, 1987, 103 pp. Exh. held at the Padiglione d'arte contemporanea, Milan, 15 Dec 1987-31 Jan 1988. (Italian)

• American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove, ed. William D. Judson, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1988, 128 pp. Exh. curated by William D. Judson; held at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 7 May-10 Jul 1988; and in two parts at SFMOMA, San Francisco, 10 Nov 1988-1 Jan 1989 & 17 Jan-19 Feb 1989. Brochure. [63]

• Video Art: Expanded Forms, ed. John G. Hanhardt, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, 1988, [8] pp. Curator's essay in Leonardo (1990).

• Video-Skulptur: retrospektiv und aktuell 1963-1989, eds. Wolf Herzogenrath and Edith Decker, Cologne: DuMont, 1989, 326 pp. Exh. held at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kunststation St. Peter, Belgisches Haus and DuMont Kunsthalle Cologne, 18 Mar-23 Apr 1989; Berlin; Kunsthaus Zürich, 13 Oct-12 Nov 1989. (German)

• Imago: fin de siècle in Dutch Contemporary Art, ed. & intro. René Coelho, 's-Gravenhage: Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, and Amsterdam: Mediamatic, 1990, 100+xxiv, HTML. Catalogue for travelling exhibition; special issue of Mediamatic, 5(1/2). Texts by René Coelho, Paul Valéry, Volker Grassmuck, Adilkno, Max Bruinsma, et al. (English)/(Dutch)

• Signs of the Times: A Decade of Video, Film and Slide-Tape Installation in Britain, 1980-1990, ed. Chrissie Iles, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1990, 87 pp. Exh. held 7 Oct-9 Dec 1990. Exh. review: Cubitt (Screen).

• Passages de l'image, eds. Raymond Bellour, Catherine David and Christine van Assche, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1990, 191 pp. Exh. curated by Bellour, David and Assche; held at Musée national d'art moderne, Galeries contemporaines, 19 Sep-18 Nov 1990; salle Garance, 12 Sep-15 Oct 1990. (French)
  • Passages de l'image, Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, 1991, 280 pp. Exh. held at Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, 12 Feb-28 Mar 1991; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus/OH, 1 Jun-27 Oct 1991; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 6 Feb-12 Apr 1992. (English)/(Catalan)

• Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt. Pioniere der Elektronischen Kunst / Pioneers of Electronic Art, ed. David Dunn, Santa Fe: The Vasulkas, 1992, 240 pp, PDF, HTML. Exh. curated by Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka, held on 22 Jun-5 Jul 1992, Oberösterreichisches Landmuseum, Linz, as part of the Ars Electronica festival. (English)

• Vidéo et après: la collection vidéo du Musée national d'art moderne, ed. Christine Van Assche, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1992, 295 pp. [64] (French)

• Video‐Skulptur in Deutschland seit 1963, ed. Wolf Herzogenrath, Stuttgart: ifa, 1995. (German)

• Centro video arte, 1974-1994: videoarte, performance, partecipazioni, ed. Lorenzo Magri, Ferrara: G. Corbo, 1995, 189 pp. Excerpt. (Italian)/(English)

• Mediascape, New York: Guggenheim Museum, and Karlsruhe: ZKM, 1996. Exh. held at Guggenheim Museum SoHo, 14 June-15 Sep 1996.

• '2' the Second: Time Based Art from the Netherlands, Amsterdam: Netherlands Media Art Institute / MonteVideo TBA, 1997, 60 pp. With CD. [65] (English)

• La coscienza luccicante: dalla videoarte all'arte interattiva, eds. Paola Sega Serra Zanetti and Maria Grazia Tolomeo, Rome: Gangemi, 1998, 272 pp. Exh. held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 16 Sep-10 Oct 1998. (Italian)/(English)

• L'art vidéo 1980-1999: vingt ans du VideoArt Festival, Locarno: recherches, théories, perspectives, ed. Vittorio Fagone, Milan: Mazzotta, 1999, 430 pp. (French)

• Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, ed. Karen Jacobson, forew. David A. Ross, San Francisco: SFMOMA, 1999, 179 pp. Exh. held 15 Oct 1999-9 Jan 2000. Exhibition. Publisher. [66] [67]

• Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Lake Worth, FL: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2000, 97 pp, IA.

• Elettroshock: 30 anni di video in Italia 1971-2001, eds. Bruno Di Marino and Lara Nicoli, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2001, 158 pp. Exh. held 21-27 May 2001. (Italian)

• Videodokument. Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998, ed. Barbara Borčić, Ljubljana: SCCA Ljubljana, 2001. With CD. [68]

• Antologiya rossiyskogo videoarta [Антология российского видеоарта], ed. Aleksei Isaev, Moscow, 2002, 208 pp. Publisher. (Russian)

• Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, eds. Klaus Biesenbach with Barbara London and Christopher Eamon, New York: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 2002, 311 pp. Exh. held 10 Nov 2002-Apr 2003. [69]

• 30 jaar Nederlandse videokunst / Thirty Years of Dutch Video Art, Amsterdam: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, MonteVideo/Time Based Arts, 2003. Exh. held 11 Jan-8 Mar 2003. (Dutch),(English)

• Arte del video: il viaggio dell'uomo immobile: videoinstallazioni, videoproiezioni, eds. Vittorio Fagone, Sandra Solimano and Lorenzo Bianda, Lucca: Fondazione Ragghianti Studi sull'Arte, 2004. Exh. held at Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, 21 Mar-23 May 2004. (Italian)/(English)

• Ready to Shoot: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum—Videogalerie Schum, ed. Snoeck Ghent, Heule/Belgium: Snoeck, 2004. Exh. held at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 27 Mar-6 Jun 2004, curated by Ulrike Groos, Barbara Hess, and Ursula Wevers, with a chronology of the development of the Television Gallery, which the German artist Gerry Schum launched in 1968 to transform television into an artistic medium by screening avant-garde art to a mass audience.

• Video Art: the Castello di Rivoli Collection, eds. Ida Giannelli and Marcella Beccaria, Milan: Skira, 2005, xv+286 pp. Exh. held 2002. [70]

• Collection New Media Installations, 1965-2005: la collection du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, ed. Christine Van Assche, Paris: Centre Pompidou, Dec 2006, 288 pp. Curated by Christine van Assche. Exh. held at Barcelona Caixa Forum; 28 Sep 2005-8 Jan 2006; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 28 Apr-23 Jul 2006; Miami Art Central, 19 Sep-10 Dec 2006; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, 13 Dec 2006-25 Feb 2007; Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, 15 Mar-27 May 2007; Museo de Chada, Lisbon, 18 Oct 2007-6 Jan 2008, [71]; The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus, Mar-May 2008; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Jun-Sep 2008; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 25 Oct 2008-18 Jan 2009 [72]. [73]

• 40jahrevideokunst.de – Teil 1. Digitales Erbe: Videokunst in Deutschland von 1963 bis heute, eds. Rudolf Frieling and Wulf Herzogenrath, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006, 399 pp. With DVD. Publisher. [74] [75] [76] (German)

• Videokunst der 60er Jahre in Deutschland, ed. Wulf Herzogenrath, Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen, 2006, 80 pp. (German)

• India: Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art, eds. Sinha Gayatri and Paul Sternberger, Gaithersburg, MD: Marg Foundation, 2007. Contains essays surveying contemporary Indian photographers and video artists. Works by 28 artists exploring the landscape of Indian identity, experience, history, and politics. (English)

• Sounding the Subject. Video Trajectories. Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2007. Introduction, Mechtild Widrich's essay. (English)

• Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990, eds. Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and MIT Press, 2008, 837 pp. Exh. held at ZKM, 16 Dec 2006-25 Mar 2007. Exhibition. Exhibition. Chronology. TOC. Publisher. Publisher. Reviews: Zics (Leonardo), Yu (Afterimage), Browne (J Am Cult). Exh. review: Minkowsky (Film Quarterly). (English)

• California Video: Artists and Histories, ed. Glenn Phillips, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008, 312 pp. Exh. held at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 15 Mar-8 Jun 2008. Comprehensive exhibition catalogue with an introduction by the editor, followed by some 230 pages devoted to artists’ historic videos with short introductions by leading figures in the field of video. Scholarly essays by Meg Cranston, Robert R. Riley, Kathy Rae Huffman, Bruce Yonemoto, Steve Seid, and Rita Gonzalez. Hundreds of illustrations. Publisher. [77] [78]. (English)

• Insert: retrospektiva hrvatske video umjetnosti / Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, ed. Tihomir Milovac, Zagreb: MSU, 2008, 360 pp. Exh. held at MSU Zagreb, Sep-Oct 2005, and MMSU Rijeka, Mar-Apr 2006. Texts by Tihomir Milovac, Silva Kalčić, Antonija Majača, Branko Franceschi. Exhibition. [79] (Croatian)/(English)

• Record again! 40JahreVideokunst.de Teil 2, eds. Christoph Blase and Peter Weibel, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010, 535 pp. With DVD. Publisher. [80] [81] (German)/(English)

• TV ARTS TV: The Television Shot by Artists, ed. Valentina Valentini, Madrid: La Fábrica, and Barcelona: Arts Santa Mònica, 2010, 160 pp.

• Changing Channels. Kunst und Fernsehen 1963-1987, ed. Matthias Michalka, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, and Vienna: mumok, 2010, 293 pp. Exh. curated by Matthias Michalka with Manuela Ammer; held at mumok, Vienna, 5 Mar-6 Jun 2010. [82] (German)
  • Changing Channels: Art and Television 1963-1987, ed. Matthias Michalka, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, and Vienna: mumok, 2010, 293 pp. [83]

• Transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989–2009 / Видеоарт Центральной и Восточной Европы после падения Берлинской стены, 1989–2009, Moscow: MediaArtLab, 2010, 137 pp. (English)/(Russian)

• VideoStudio: Playback, ed. Thomas J. Lax, New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2011, 17 pp. Exh. held on 31 Mar-26 Jun 2011. First exhibition in a series of programs dedicated to work made in the late 20th century that reflect the influence of dance and avant-garde theater as well as contemporaneous social concerns on early uses of video by artists. Emphasizing improvisation, collaboration and innovative uses of technology, the artists in the exhibition include Houston Conwill, Maren Hassinger, Fred Holland, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Ulysses Jenkins, Senga Nengudi and Howardena Pindell. (English)

• Vidéo Vintage 1963-1983: une sélection de vidéos fondatrices des collections nouveaux médias du Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, ed. Christine Van Assche, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2012, 64 pp. Retrospective presenting the first two decades of video art production held in the collection of Centre Pompidou. Curated by Christine van Assche with Florence Parot. Press release. Publisher. Exh. held at Centre Pompidou, 8 Feb-7 May 2012; ZKM Media Museum Karlsruhe, 22 Sep 2012-10 Feb 2013; Beirut Art Center; MMCA Seoul. [84] (French)

• AC/DC/IT: Krótka historia instalacji wideo, Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2012, 75 pp. Exhibition. (Polish)

• Corpo elettronico: videoarte italiana tra materia, segno e sogno, eds. Andrea La Porta and Gianluca Marziani, Milan: Prearo, 2012, 173 pp. Exh. held 11 Feb-25 Apr 2012. (Italian)

• TeleGen: Kunst und Fernsehen / Art and Television, eds. Dieter Daniels and Stephan Berg, Munich: Hirmer, 2015, 352 pp. Exh. held at Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1 Oct 2015-17 Jan 2016; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, 19 Feb-16 May 2016. Exh. booklet. (German)/(English)

• Videoarte a Palazzo dei Diamanti 1973-1979: reenactment, Ferrara: Fondazione Ferrara arte, 2015, 119 pp. (Italian)

• Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, ed. Henriette Huldisch, Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, and Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2018, 143 pp. Texts by Henriette Huldisch, Emily Watlington, and Edith Decker-Phillips. Exh. held at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 8 Feb-15 Apr 2018. (English)

• Mémoires vives: From Nam June Paik to Sliders_Lab, ed. Jean-Marie Dallet, Tielt: Lannoo, 2019, 256 pp. Excerpt. [85] (English),(Dutch),(French)

• Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s, Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. (English)
  • Musas insumisas: Delphine Seyrig y los colectivos de vídeo feminista en Francia en los 70 y 80, Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. (Spanish)

• "Wideotaśmy. Wczesna sztuka wideo (1965–1976) / Videotapes: Early video art (1965-1976)", Zachęta, Warsaw: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Feb-Apr 2020, pp 36-43. Exh. held at Zachęta, Warsaw, 15 Feb-14 Jun 2020. Curated by Michał Jachuła. 3D exhibition. Video documentation. Review: Jachuła (Blok). (Polish)/(English)

• Signals: How Video Transformed the World, eds. Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2023, 188 pp. With contributions by Aria Dean and Erika Balsom. Exhibition. Publisher. Exh. review: Ryan (Artforum). (English)

Books, journal issues, proceedings, theses

1970s

Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, 1970, Log, PDF.

• Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, intro. R. Buckminster Fuller, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970, 432+[6] pp; London: Studio Vista, 1970, 432+[6] pp; repr., 50th anniv.ed., New York: Fordham University Press, 2020, xxxii+449+[12] pp.
  • Cine expandido, intro. Emilio Benini, Buenos Aires: Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero (EDUNTREF), 2012, 447 pp. [86] (Spanish)
  • Expanded cinema, eds. Pier Luigi Capucci and Simonetta Fadda, Bologna: CLUEB, 2013, xvi+388 pp. (Italian)

• Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971. [87]

• Performance 3: "Television", Jul-Aug 1972.

• Paul Ryan, Birth And Death And Cybernation: Cybernetics of the Sacred, New York: Gordon & Breach, 1973.

• Art-Rite 7: "Video", ed. Anna Canepa, New York: Art-Rite, Autumn 1974, 32 pp.

• Transcript of the Whitney Video Conference sponsored by NYSCA on April 1 & 2, 1974, New York State Council on the Arts, [1975], n.p.

• Peggy Gale (ed.), Video by Artists, intro. Tom Sherman, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1976, 223 pp. [88] [89]

• Johanna Gill, Video: State of the Art, Rockefeller Foundation, 1976, 56 pp, HTML; repr. as "Video: State of the Art", in Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt. Pioniere der Elektronischen Kunst / Pioneers of Electronic Art, ed. David Dunn, Santa Fe, NM: The Vasulkas, 1992, pp 63-88.

• Studio International: "Video Art", ed. David Hall, London, May-Jun 1976. Essays: D Hall, Krikorian, Krikorian, S Hall & Hopkins, Leggett, Leggett, Chaimowitz, Hoey, Kidel.

• Daniela Palazzoli, Fotografia, cinema, videotape: l'uso artistico dei nuovi media, Milan: Fabbri, 1977, 126 pp. (Italian)

• Jonathan Price, Video Visions: A Medium Discovers Itself, New York: New American Library, 1977. Based on interviews with people involved in early video: broadcasters at WGBH and other PBS stations, numerous artists, a.o. Review: Kaiser (Leonardo).

• The New Television: A Public/Private Art: Essays, Statements, and Videotapes: 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, New York City, eds. Douglas Davis and Allison Simmons, MIT Press, 1977, 289 pp. Excerpts, Herzogenrath's essay. Based on conference held 23-25 Jan 1974, gathering some 40 video artists, filmmakers, curators, arts administrators, and critics among others to discuss the problems and prospects of artists' television and video. Conf. schedule. Review: Knight (Leonardo). [90] [91]

• Gregory Battcock (ed.), New Artists' Video: A Critical Anthology, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978, xxii+198 pp, IA. [92]. Some of the articles are reprints, but eleven of them were previously unpublished. Writers included Douglas Davis, Richard Kostelanetz, Richard Lorber, David Ross, Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Robert Stefanotty, Les Levine, Rosalind Kraus, Stuart Marshall, Ingrid Wiegand, a.o.

• Transcript from The International Video Art Symposium, 5-7 March 1979, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, 1979, 69 pp. [93]

1980s

• Sirio Luginbühl, Paolo Cardazzo, Videotapes: arte tecnica storia, Padua: Mastrogiacomo, 1980. Excerpt. [94] (Italian)

• Dominique Belloir, Vidéo art explorations, Paris: Cahiers du Cinema, 1981, 90 pp. (French)

• Bettina Gruber, Maria Vedder (eds.), Kunst und Video: Internationale Entwicklung und Künstler, Cologne: DuMont, 1983, 264 pp. Incl. 7 essays on communications theory and video history, color plates (8 pp), statements, photographs, biographies, videographies, and bibliographies for 61 artists. Review: Zippay (Art J 1985). (German)

• The Media Arts in Transition, ed. Bill Horrigan, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1983, 63 pp. Conference held 8-11 Jun 1983. Programme. Part on preservation. Speakers and registrants.

• Heidi Grundmann (ed.), Art Telecommunication, Vancouver: Western Front Publication, and Vienna: Blix, 1984, 140 pp. [95]. Review: Malloy. (English)

• Ida Boelema (ed.), Inventarisatie van videokunst, films van kunstenaars, avantgarde en experimentele films, die in Nederland beschikbaar zijn, 2 vols., Weesp: Openbaar Kunstbezit, 1984-1985, 209 & ix+251 pp. (Dutch)

• Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium", ed. Sara Hornbacher, Fall 1985, 93 pp.

• Mihailo Ristić (ed.), Videosfera: video/društvo/umetnost [Videosphere: Video/Society/Art], Belgrade: Studentski izdavački centar, 1986. Anthology of theoretical texts about video, including contributions from video-makers. Review: Radić. (Serbo-Croatian)

• John Hanhardt (ed.), Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, and Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986, 296 pp. Introduction by Hanhardt, with chapters on “Theory and Practice,” “Video and Television,” and “Film and Video.” Essays by Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Louis Althusser, Hans Mgnus Enzensberger, Jean Baudrillard, David Antin, David Ross, Stanley Cavell, Nam June Paik, Gene Youngblood, Jack Burnham, John Ellis, and Douglas Davis, as well as Rosalind Krauss’s essay "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism".

• Deidre Boyle, Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tapes, Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1986, xxii+160 pp.

• Elke Town (ed.), Video by Artists, 2, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1986, 151 pp. A companion to the 1976 book publication. [96]

• Wolfgang Preikschat, Video. Die Poesie der Neuen Medien, Weinheim: Beltz, 1987, 188 pp. Review: Hoffman (MW). (German)

• Roy Armes, On Video, London: Routledge, 1988, 230 pp.
  • Lu ying xue [錄影學], Tai bei shi: Yuan liu, 1995, 284 pp. (Chinese)

• Rob Perrée, Into Video Art: The Characteristics of a Medium / Into Video Art: De Karakteristieken von een Medium, trans. A.H.W. Karelse, Rotterdam: Con Rumore, and Amsterdam: Idea Books, 1988, 75 pp. Argues for video art as a fine art, describes the medium's specific conditions illustrated by examples from Dutch video art. [97]. Review: Groot (Mediamatic). (English)/(Dutch)

• Communications 48: "Vidéo", eds. Raymond Bellour and Anne-Marie Duguet, Paris, 1988. (French)

1990s

• Vittorio Fagone, L'immagine video: arti visuali e nuovi media elettronici, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1990, 239+xxxii pp; 2nd ed., Milan: Feltrinelli, 2007, 239+[32] pp. (Italian)

• Electronic Arts Intermix, Artists' Video: An International Guide, ed. Lori Zippay, New York: Cross River Press, 1991, 272 pp. Introductory essay by the editor on major topics and technical developments in video, from the 1960s to the 1990s, including 120 artists and 1,500 illustrations, with chapters organized alphabetically by artist, each with an annotated biography, videography, and bibliography.

• Doug Hall, Sally Jo Fifer (eds.), Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, pref. David Bolt, forew. David Ross, intro. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, New York: Aperture, with Bay Area Video Coalition, 1990, 566 pp, IA. Essays by Kathy Rae Huffman, Marita Sturken, Christine Tamblyn, Martha Rosler, Chip Lord, Judith Barry, Juan Downey, Mary Lucier, Woody Vasulka, Bill Viola, Kathy O’Dell, Margaret Morse, a.o. Bibliography and videography. Publisher. Review: Mellby (Art Doc).

• Immagine e Pubblico 2-3: "Videoarte", eds. Gianni Toti and Marco Maria Gazzano, Apr-Sep 1990, 34 pp. (Italian)

• Sean Cubitt, Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, London: Macmillan, 1993, 239 pp. (English)

• Rossen Milev, Video in Osteuropa, Sofia: Balkanmedia, 1993, 164 pp. Excerpt. Based on author's dissertation written under Siegfried Zielinski. Review: Lovink (Mediamatic). [98] (German)

• New Observations 103: "Video", ed. Ana de Portela, New York, Nov-Dec 1994, 31 pp. [99] [100]

• Marieke van Dormolen, Videokunst in Nederland: wel geëmancipeerd niet geïntegreerd: Madelon Hooykaas & Elsa Stansfield, Lydia Schouten, Roos Theuws, Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1994. PhD dissertation. (Dutch)

• Rewind: Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S., 1968-1980, ed. Gary Hill, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1995, Excerpt; new ed., eds. Abina Manning and Brigid Reagan, Chicago: Video Data Bank, 2008, 150 pp. Brochure, SFMOMA, 1997. [101]

• Janine Marchessault (ed.), Mirror Machine: Video and Identity, Toronto: YYZ Books, and Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, McGill University, 1995, 239 pp, IA.

• Michael Renov, Erika Suderburg (eds.), Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, University of Minnesota Press, 1995, 448 pp. [102]

• Silvia Bordini, Videoarte & arte: tracce per una storia, postf. Anna Ludovico, Rome: Lithos, 1995, 139 pp. (Italian)

• Art Journal 54(4): "Video Art", eds. John G. Hanhardt and Maria Christina Villaseñor, Winter 1995. Introduction. [103]

• Julia Knight (ed.), Diverse Practices: a Critical Reader on British Video Art, Luton: University of Luton Press, 1996, 384 pp. Bauer's essay. Review: Eleftheriotis (Screen). [104] (English)

• Sandra Lischi, Cine ma video, Pisa: ETS, 1996, 147 pp. (Italian)

• Christine Ross, Images de surface: l'art vidéo reconsidéré, Montréal: Artexte, 1996, 142 pp. Based on dissertation from Université Paris I. (French)

• The Kitchen Video Collection: Two Decades of the Video Vanguard, ed. David Azarch, New York: Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature, 1996. Founded as a collective for experimental artists and composers, The Kitchen began as an alternative space and became a renowned institution for cross-disciplinary art and performance. Volume consists of archival documents, brief descriptions of art works, and black-and-white photographs of video art and video performances, many of which have become classic works in the history of art.

• Deidre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, Oxford University Press, 1997.

• Jacqueline Bobo (ed.), Black Women Film and Video Artists, Routledge, 1998, 288 pp. Publisher.

• Sally Jo Fifer, et al. (eds.), Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video, San Francisco: Bay Area Video Coalition, 1998, 79 pp. Proceedings from the 1996 symposium. Publisher, [105]. Session transcripts.

• Simonetta Fadda, Definizione zero: origini della videoarte fra politica e comunicazione [Zero Definition: The Beginnings of Videoart, between Politics and Communication], Genova: Costa & Nolan, 1999, 184 pp; new ed., exp., pref. Bruno Di Marino, Milan: Meltemi, 2017, 266 pp. Preface to 2nd ed. (Italian)

• Dejan Sretenović (ed.), Video umetnost u Srbiji / Video Art in Serbia, Belgrade: Centre for Contemporary Art, 1999, 152 pp. (Serbian)/(English)

2000s

• Catherine Elwes, Video Loupe: A Collection of Essays by and about the Videomaker and Critic Catherine Elwes, London: KT Press, 2000, 188 pp. [106] (English)

• François Parfait, Video, un art contemporain, Paris: Regard, 2001. Twelve illustrated chapters focus on the relation between electronic images and the development of contemporary art; the affiliations between banal video productions and the hybrid history of technology; and interconnections among sculpture, photography, cinema, and television in relation to popular culture and live, performed art in the second half of the 20th century. (French)

• Angela Madesani, Le icone fluttuanti: storia del cinema d'artista e della videoarte in Italia, Milan: Mondadori, 2002, x+245 pp. (Italian)

• Maria Rosa Sossai, Artevideo: storie e culture del video d'artista in Italia, Milan: Silvana, 2002, 159 pp. (Italian)

• PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 71: "Studio as Study: A Selection of Drawings by American Video Artists", ed. Melinda M. Barlow, May 2002. [107]

• Ursula Biemann (ed.), In Stuff It: The Video Essay in the Digital Age, Zurich: Voldemeer, and Vienna: Springer, 2003. (English)

• Nina Danino, Michael Mazière (eds.), The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video, London: Wallflower Press, 2003, ix+277 pp, IA. Anthology of writing and visual works from Undercut, an UK journal dedicated to artists' film and video between 1980 and 1990. Review: Rees (Screen).

• Valentina Valentini, Le storie del video, Rome: Bulzoni, 2003, 338 pp. (Italian)

• Alessandro Amaducci, Banda anomala: un profilo della videoarte monocanale in Italia, Torino: Lindau, 2003, 156 pp. (Italian)

• Michael Rush, Video Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2003; rev.ed., 2007. Introduction + Chapter 1, Chapter 2.

• Jeroen Boomgaard, Bart Rutten (eds.), De magnetische tijd. Videokunst in Nederland 1970-1985, Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, and Amsterdam: Netherlands Media Art Institute, 2003. (Dutch)
  • The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970-1985, Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, and Amsterdam: Netherlands Media Art Institute, 2003, 208 pp. [108] [109] (English)
    • introduction: Rob Perrée, "Video Art in the Netherlands: From Agora to MonteVideo".

• Tanya Leighton (ed.), Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader, London: Tate Publishing, and Afterall, 2008, 496 pp.

• Yvonne Spielmann, Video: das reflexive Medium, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005. This scholarly study of the history and practices of video contains a section devoted to the experimental phase of video, guerilla television, artistic video, and video culture. Another section explores the aesthetics of video by many artists working in video performance, from Vito Acconci, Dennis Oppenheim, and Ulrike Rosenbach to Valie Export, Lynn Hersham, and Raphael Montañez Ortiz. (German)
  • Video: The Reflexive Medium, trans. Anja Welle and Stan Jones, MIT Press, 2008, 384 pp. TOC, Index, [110].
  • trans. Takeshi Ebine, Tokyo: Sangen-sha Press, 2011. (Japanese)

• Slavko Kacunko, Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen. Ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst mit Bausteinen eines Künstlerlexikons, Berlin: Logos, 2005, 1062 pp. (German)

• Piotr Krajewski, Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska (eds.), Od monumentu do marketu / From Monument to Market: Video Art and Public Space, Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2005, 220 pp. With 2 DVDs. [111] (Polish)/(English)

• Catherine Elwes, Video Art: A Guided Tour, forew. Shirin Neshat, London: I.B. Tauris, 2005, x+212 pp. (English)

• Max Liljefors, Videokonsten: en introduktion, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2005, 149 pp. (Swedish)

• Sandra Lischi, Il linguaggio del video, Rome: Carocci, 2005, 110 pp; repr., 2017. (Italian)

• Sebastián López, A Short History of Dutch Video Art / Una Breve Historia del Video Arte en Holanda, Amsterdam: Gate Foundation, and Rotterdam: Episode, 2005. [112] (English)/(Spanish)

• Daniel Birnbaum, Chronology, New York : Lukas & Sternberg, 2005, 116 pp; 2nd ed., 2007. Excerpt. (English)
  • Cronologia: tempo e identità nei film e video degli artisti contemporanei, Milan: Postmedia, 2007, 132 pp. Publisher. (Italian)
  • Khronologii︠a︡ [Хронология], trans. A. Skidan, Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2007. (Russian)

• Kate Horsfield, Lucas Hilderbrand (eds.), Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, 360 pp, ARG. Publisher. (English)

• Sylvia Martin, Video Art, Taschen, 2006, 95 pp. Excerpt.

• Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video Art, Berg, 2006; 2nd ed., Bloomsbury, 2014, 387 pp. (English)
  • Bideo āto no rekishi: sono keishiki to kinō no hensen [ヴィデオ・アートの歴史 : その形式と機能の変遷], trans. Ina Shinsuke, Tokyo: Sangensha, 2013, 401 pp. (Japanese)

• Marlene Angermeyer-Deubner, Peter Weibel (eds.), Syntax des Sehens. Die Videosammlung des ZKM, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2006, 206 pp. [113] (German)

• Joachim Jäger, Gabriele Knapstein, Anette Hüsch (eds.), Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection: Films, Videos and Installations from 1963 to 2005, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006, 152 pp. [114] (English)

• Brumaria 4: "Vídeo: Primera Etapa", Madrid, Summer 2004; new ed., rev. & exp., Winter 2006. TOC. [115] [116] (Spanish)

• Art Journal 65(3): "Forty Years of Video Art", ed. Yvonne Spielmann, Fall 2006. [117]

• Ricerche di Storia dell'arte 88: "Videoarte in Italia", Carocci, 2006, 112 pp. [118] (Italian)

• James A. Nadeau, The Medium is the Medium: The Convergence of Video, Art and Television at WGBH (1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2006. Thesis. [119]

• Laura Baigorri (ed.), Vídeo en Latinoamérica: una historia crítica, Madrid: Brumaria, 2008. (Spanish)

• Jorge La Ferla (ed.), Historia crítica del video argentino, Buenos Aires: MALBA, and Buenos Aires: Espacio Fundación Telefónica, 2008, 285 pp. Publisher. [120] (Spanish)

• Dinis Guarda, Nuno Figueiredo (eds.), Video arte e filme de arte & ensaio em Portugal / Video Art and Art & Essay Film in Portugal, Lisbon: Número – Arte e Cultura, 2008, 276 pp. (Portuguese)/(English)

• Stan Douglas, Christopher Eamon (eds.), Art of Projection, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009, 192 pp. [121]

• Edit András (ed.), Transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2009, Budapest: Ludwig Museum--Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009, 319 pp. (English)

• Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Piotr Krajewski (eds.), From Absolute Cinema to Future Film. Materials from the history of experiment in the moving picture art, Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2009, 84 pp. (English)

2010s

• Piotr Krajewski, Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska (eds.), Ukryta dekada. Polska sztuka wideo 1985-1995 / The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985-1995, Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2010, 336 pp. With 4 DVDs. (Polish)/(English)

• Kate Mondloch, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

• Are You Ready for TV?, Barcelona: MACBA, 2010, 116 pp. [122]
  • ¿Estáis listos para la televisión?, Barcelona: MACBA, 2010, 127 pp. [123]
  • Esteu a punt per a la televisió?, Barcelona: MACBA, 2010, 121 pp. [124] (Catalan)

• Nancy Cain, Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder, Palm Springs: Event Horizon Press, 2011. (English)

• Tamara Trodd (ed.), Screen/Space: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011, 214 pp. Review: Butler (Screen).

• Ariane Noël de Tilly, Scripting Artworks: Studying the Socialization of Editioned Video and Film Installations, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2011, 239 pp. PhD thesis.

• Sean Cubitt, Stephen Partridge (eds.), Rewind: British Artists' Video of the 1970s and 1980s, John Libbey, 2012, 234 pp, IA. A history and analysis of the first years of video art in England and Scotland based on extensive archiving and oral history. Review: Piccini (Screen). [125]

• Erika Suderburg, Ming-Yuen S. Ma (eds.), Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 408 pp. Publisher.

• Holly Rogers, Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music, Oxford University Press, 2013.

• Renato Rezende, Katia Maciel, Poesia e videoarte, Rio de Janeiro: CIrcuito: funarte, 2013, 159 pp. [126] (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Paul Hegarty, Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

• Melissa Rérat, L'art vidéo au féminin: Emmanuelle Antille, Elodie Pong, Pipilotti Rist, Lausanne: PPUR, 2014. (French)

• Katarzyna Kosmala (ed.), Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 275 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. (English)

• Alessandro Amaducci, Videoarte. Storia, autori, linguaggi, Torino: Kaplan, 2014, 212 pp, PDF. (Italian)

• Kathy High, Sherry Miller Hocking, Mona Jimenez (eds.), The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, 2 vols., Intellect, 2014, EPUB. Review: Pearlman (Leonardo).

• Helen Westgeest, Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

• Malin Hedlin Hayden, Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations, Ashgate, 2015.

• Gabrielle Jennings (ed.), Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art, forew. Kate Mondloch, University of California Press, 2015, ARG.

• Omar Kholeif (ed.), Moving Image, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015, 239 pp.

• Catherine Elwes, Installation and the Moving Image, Wallflower Press, 2015. (English)

• Andreas Treske, Video Theory: Online Video Aesthetics or the Afterlife of Video, Bielefeld: transcript, 2015, 208 pp.

• Anke Hervol, Wulf Herzogenrath, Johannes Odenthal (eds.), Schwindel der Wirklichkeit. Closed-Circuit-Videoinstallationen und Partizipation. Ein Reader / The Vertigo of Reality: Closed-Circuits and Participation: A Reader, Berlin: Akademie der Künste, and Walther König, 2015, 336 pp. TOC. (German)/(English)

• Sander Kletter, Turbulentie rond videokunst. Kunstkritische reflecties op een nieuw medium, 1970-2010, Rotterdam: nai010, 2016. Publisher. (Dutch)

• Ilaria Bombelli (ed.), I Have a Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once: On Collecting Video Art. A project by LOOP Barcelona, Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2016, 160 pp. London's essay. Publisher. [127]

• Ina Blom, The Autobiography of Video: The Life and Times of a Memory Technology, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016, 244 pp. Introduction. Publisher. Review: McDonald (Spectator).

• Laura Leuzzi, Stephen Partridge (eds.), Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy / Rewind Italia: I primi anni della videoarte in Italia, trans. Simona Manca, London: John Libbey & Co, 2016, vi+350 pp. TOC. (English)/(Italian)

• William Kaizen, Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism, Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2016, 248 pp. [128] (English)

• Erika Balsom, After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, Columbia University Press, 2017, 312 pp, ARG, EPUB.

• François Bovier (ed.), Early Video and Experimental Film Networks: French-Speaking Switzerland in 1974: A Case for "Minor History", Lausanne: ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, 2017, 252 pp. [129] [130] [131] (English)

• Michael Goddard, Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 358 pp. TOC & Introduction. [132]. Review: Gloor (H-Soz-Kult).

• Slavko Kacunko (ed.), Theorien der Videokunst. Theoretikerinnen 1988-2003 & 2004-2018, 2 vols., Berlin: Logos, 2018, 582 & 406 pp. [133] [134] (German)

• Laura Leuzzi, Elaine Shemilt, Stephen Partridge (eds.), EWVA: European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s, John Libbey, 2019, 250 pp. [135]

• Sandra Lischi, La lezione della videoarte: sguardi e percorsi, Rome: Carocci, 2019, 115 pp. (Italian)

• Lucy Reynolds (ed.), Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices, Bloomsbury, 2019, 328 pp, EPUB. Publisher.

• Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, Sarah Perks (eds.), Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989, Yale University Press, 2019, 544 pp. Publisher. [136]

2020s

• Milo Adami, La forma video. Tra cinema e arti visive dopo il digitale, Milan: Postmedia, 2020, 240 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. (Italian)

• Renate Buschmann, Jessica Nitsche (eds.), Video Visionen. Die Medienkunstagentur 235 Media als Alternative im Kunstmarkt, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020, 366 pp. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. [137] (German)

• Francesco Spampinato, Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television, Bloomsbury, 2021, 368 pp. Publisher. Review: Day (Art Hist).

• Barbara London, Video/Art: The First Fifty Years, London: Phaidon, 2021, 280 pp. Publisher.

• Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg (eds.), Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, MIT Press, 2022, 320 pp. Publisher. Exhibition.

• Elena Shtromberg, Glenn Phillips (eds.), Encounters in Video Art in Latin America, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, Feb 2023, 288 pp. Research project. Publisher. Review: Le (ARLIS/NA). [138]

• Sylva Poláková, Martin Mazanec (eds.), Mapování pohyblivého obrazu. Média, aktéři a místa v českém prostředí, Prague: Národní filmový archiv, 2023, 311 pp. Research project. Publisher. (Czech)
  • Mapping the Moving Image: Media, Agents, and Sites in the Czech Context, Prague: Národní filmový archiv, 2024. Research project.

Book chapters, papers, articles

• John S. Margolies, "TV: The Next Medium", Art in America 57:5, Sep-Oct 1969, pp 48-55, HTML. [139]

• Douglas Davis, "The New Audience: Television and Videotape", in Davis, Art and the Future, New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 84-91.

• Rosalind Krauss, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism", October 1, Spring 1976, pp 50-64.

• Stuart Marshall, "Video: Technology and Practice", Screen 20:1, Mar 1979, pp 109-119.

• Lucinda Furlong, "Notes Towards a History of Image-processed Video: Eric Siegel, Stephen Beck, Dan Sandin, Steve Rutt, Bill and Louise Etra", Afterimage, Summer 1983, pp 35-38.

• Lucinda Furlong, "Notes Towards a History of Image-processed Video: Steina and Woody Vasulka", Afterimage, Dec 1983, pp 12-17, HTML; repr. in Mémoires vives: From Nam June Paik to Sliders_Lab, ed. Jean-Marie Dallet, Tielt: Lannoo, 2019, pp 56-73.
  • "Du signal video au traitement d'images digitales", trans. Isabelle Delord and Dominique Willoughby, in Steina et Woody Vasulka: Vidéastes: 1969-1984, 2nd ed., rev. & corr., ed. Dominique Willoughby, Paris: Ciné-MBXA/Cinédoc, 1984, pp 33-47. (French)

• Marita Sturken, "TV as a Creative Medium: Howard Wise and Video Art", Afterimage 11:10, May 1984, pp 5-9, HTML.

• Stuart Marshall, "Video: From Art to Independence", Screen 26:2, Mar-Apr 1985, pp 66-72.

• Lucinda Furlong, "Tracking Video Art: ‘Image Processing’ as a Genre", Art Journal 45, Fall 1985, pp 233-237.

• Martha Rosler, "Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment", in Vidéo, ed. René Payant, Montréal: Artexte, 1986; repr. in Block 11, London, 1985-86; repr. in Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, eds. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, New York: Aperture Press, 1991, pp 30-50. Originally delivered as a talk, "Shedding the Utopian Moment: The Museumization of Video", at the conference Vidéo '84 at the Université de Québec à Montréal.

• Marita Sturken, "Private Money and Personal Influence: Howard Klein and the Rockefeller Foundation's Funding of the Media Arts", Afterimage 14:6, Jan 1987.

• Paul Ryan, "A Genealogy of Video", Leonardo 21:1, 1988, pp 39-44.

• Lucinda Furlong, "Electronic Backtalk: The Art of Interactive Video", The Independent 11:4, May 1988, pp 14-20, IA.

• Sean Cubitt, "Video Art and Colonialism: An Other and Its Others", Screen 30:4, Oct 1989, pp 66-79. Review of retrospectives of Bill Viola and Nam June Paik.

• John G. Hanhardt, "Dé-collage/Collage: Notes Toward a Reexamination of the Origins of Video Art", in Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, eds. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, New York: Aperture Press, 1991, pp 70-79. [140]

• Margaret Morse, "Video Installation Art: The Body, The Image, and the Space-in-Between", in Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, eds. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, New York: Aperture Press, 1991, pp 152-167.

• Rossen Milev, "Video in Osteuropa. Eine Untersuchung des neuen audiovisuellen Phänomens in seinem osteuropäischen Profil", Communications 17:2, 1992, pp 245-274. (German)

• Chris Hill, "Attention! Production! Audience! —Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980", vdb.org, 1996; revised version, in Surveying the First Decade DVD, 2008.

• Barbara Borčić, "Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism", in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, eds. Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković, MIT Press, 2003, pp 490-524, PDF. (English)

• Dieter Daniels, "Television-Art or Anti-Art? Conflict and Cooperation between the Avant-Garde and the Mass Media in the 1960s and 1970s", in Media Art Net, eds. Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, 2004.
  • "Fernsehen – Kunst oder Antikunst? Konflikte und Kooperationen zwischen Avantgarde und Massenmedium in den 1960er / 1970er Jahren", in Media Kunst Netz, eds. Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, 2004. (German)

• Kate Horsfield, "Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art", ch 1 in Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews, eds. Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, pp 7-16, PDF. (English)

• Marga van Mechelen, "Video in De Appel", ch 6 in De Appel: performances, installaties, video, projecten 1975-83, Amsterdam: De Appel Foundation, 2006. [141] (Dutch)
  • "Video in De Appel", ch 6 in De Appel: Performances, Installations, Video, Projects, 1975-83, trans. Michael Gibbs, Amsterdam: De Appel Foundation, 2006, pp 275-301. [142] (English)

• J. Steetskamp, "Looking back: the roots of video production at the Jan van Eyck Academie", 2007, PDF. Interviews: JCJ Vanderheyden, Servie Janssen, Madelon Hooykaas, Berto Ausseums. (English)

• Christine Mehring, "Television Art's Abstract Starts: Europe circa 1944-1969", October 125, Summer 2008, pp 29-64.

• John G. Hanhardt, "From Screen to Gallery Cinema, Video, and Installation Art Practices", American Art 22:2, Summer 2008, pp 2-8. [143]

• Kris Paulsen, "California Video", X-TRA 11:1, Sep 2008, pp 32-38.

• Stéphanie Jeanjean, "Disobedient Video in France in the 1970s: Video Production by Women’s Collectives", Afterall 27, Summer 2011, pp 5-16.

• Ege Berensel, "Video Art from ’Monitor-Sculpture‘ to ’Video-Sculpture", Goethe.de, 2012.

• Erika Balsom, "Original Copies: How Film and Video Became Art Objects", Cinema Journal 53:1 (Fall 2013), pp. 97-118.

• Peter Oleksik, "Rewind: A Brief History of Caring for Video Art in the United States", VoCA Journal, Spring 2018.

• Anna Orrghen, "Art criticism and the newness of video art: the reception of video art in the Swedish daily press, 1985–1991", Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 12:1, 2020.

Miscellaneous

• OffLine: A Retrospective 1990-2003, Ithaca/NY, c2003, 56 pp. About an US national cable television program for video art. Episode guide, [144].
• Kathy Rae Huffman, Peter Kirby, Carole Ann Klonarides, Kira Perov, Glenn Phillips, David Ross, "A Brief History of the Video Programs at the Long Beach Museum of Art", 2008.
• Richard Cándida Smith, "SFMOMA 75th Anniversary: Robert Riley", Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2010, 83 pp. Oral history interview with the first SFMOMA's curator of media arts (1988-2000).

Bibliography and chronology

Barbara London, "Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983", 1985, PDF, in Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium", 1985, Log, PDF.

• Barbara London with Lorraine Zippay, "A Chronology of Video Activity in the United States 1965-1980", Artforum, Sep 1980, HTML.

• Barbara London, "Selected U.S. Chronology", in Circulating Video Library, ed. Barbara London, New York: MoMA, 1983, pp 41-48.

• "Selected Bibliography for Early Video", in Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History, c1983, [2] pp.

• Barbara London, "Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983", Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium" (Autumn 1985), pp 249-262.

More

• Publications on video at Monoskop Log
• Publications on video art at Monoskop Log
• Texts compiled by Experimental TV Center, [145]

See also

• Video activism, Live video

• Video in CEE (bibliography), Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia (2), Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania.

	Visual art
Movements – 1990s – East Central Europe – Writers – Historians – Care – Museums – References. Art and culture, Contents, Index, About.

	Moving Image communities of practice in film and video
Early cinema, Experimental film, Expanded cinema, Video art, Live cinema, Film labs, Media archives, Community television, Demoscene, VJing, VVVV, Live coding, Writers. Art and culture, Contents, Index, About.