VDB Publications

The VDB Publications program commissions original essays, critical texts, and interviews engaging the work of artists in the collection and advancing the scholarship of media art.

VDB Bookstore

The VDB Bookstore provides a marketplace for print publications by and about media artists. Here users can find monographs for individual and educational purchase, featuring artists in the VDB collection. In addition, the bookstore offers independently-published monographs, originally released in conjunction with VDB-produced Box Set projects.

Essays

These PDF full text essays represent original scholarship commissioned or supported by the Video Data Bank, in relation to works, movements, or artists in the collection. We are please to offer these writings freely to scholars, educators and audiences for use in their own research and teaching.

Some recently posted essays include:

I Say I Am: Women's Performance Video from the 1970s
Maria Troy
The Persistence of the Archive: The Documentary Fictions of Daniel Eisenberg
Scott Durham
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Sophisticated Seduction
Carol Becker
The Prayers and Tears of Paul Chan: Profane Illumination and the Post-Secular in BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER and Now promise now threat
Yates Mckee
Eyes to See With
Laura Marks
A Work Aesthetic: The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson
Monica McTighe
Underground Man
Gene Youngblood
Radical Closure
Akram Zaatari
Video Art Was Born Subversive
Davidson Gigliotti
Two or three things I know about him
Mark Westmoreland
Perception as Transcendence: Interview with Paweł Wojtasik
Scott MacDonald
Koken Ergun: Personal Works of Public Ceremonies.
Ian White
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-1980: Attention! Production! Audience! Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980
Chris Hill
MoMA Projects 100: Akram Zaatari
Eva Respini and Ana Janevski
Doug Ischar: Recent Films
Doug Iscar
Kate Horsfield: The Early Years of the Video Data Bank and On Art and Artists
Faye Gleisser
‘This isn’t Charlie Rose’: The Making of On Art and Artists and the Politics of Information Distribution
Faye Gleisser
Primate Cinema: Apes as Family [eBook]
Rachel Mayeri and Matthew Fuller
Association of Moving Image Archivists Poster: Video Data Bank Digitization Project
Kristin MacDonough
Consuming Passions: The Video Art of Ximena Cuevas
Steve Seid
Tom Rubnitz / Dynasty Handbag
Jibz Cameron, Josh Lubin-Levy, Bryan Bauman, John Kelly, Lady Bunny, Nicholas De Villiers and Joe E. Jeffreys
REWIND: A Guide to Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S., 1968-1980
Video Data Bank
Ironic Nostalgia: an Interview with Nelson Henricks
Mike Hoolboom
Stories from a Generation: Video Art at the Woman's Building
Cecilia Dougherty
Feminism and Video: A View from the Village
Joan Braderman
Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art
Kate Horsfield
Grow Gills and Swim: The Evolution of Activist Video
Gregg Bordowitz
Other Solutions
Carrie Lambert
Notes on Black Video: 1987–2001
Emily Martin
Doldrums: On the Uncanny Domestic
Elise Schierbeek
Ilene Segalove: Whatever Happened to the Future?
Emily Martin
Beyond the Dust: Colonial Legacy in the Desert
Martí Madaula Esquirol
Wendy Clarke: Love is All Around
Kristin MacDonough
Make Believe, It’s Just Like the Truth Clings to It: In Conversation with the Work of Cecilia Dougherty
AJ Mendelsohn
Reflections on Hydroglyphs: Early Morning Drift by Laurie McDonald (2020)
McDonald, Laurie
Essay on Shadow and Substance
Laurie McDonald

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VDB Asks...

VDB Asks… is an online series of informal conversations with VDB artists, providing a further look into the influences, background, and cultural references that motivate their work.