Video Art: The First Fifty Years
New York: Phaidon, 2020
ISBN 978 0 7148 7759 4
"The story of video art, from its beginnings in the late 1960s through its continuing transformation in the twenty-first century. Author and curator Barbara London founded the video exhibition and collections programs at New York's Museum of Modern Art." (Taken from back cover.)
Told from the perspective of the author's interactions with artists and her curation of exhibitions at the MoMA, the book includes short personal biographies of early video art practitioners Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Peter Campus, Joan Jonas, Laurie Anderson, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Dana Birnbaum, George Kuchar, Tony Oursler, Pipilotti Rist, Cheryl Donegan, Kristin Lucas, Miranda July, Thierry Kuntzel, Teiji Furuhashi, Julia Scher, Grahame Weinbren, Perry Hoberman, Ericka Beckman, Jim Campbell, Jeffrey Shaw, Masaki Fujihata, Cory Arcangel, John Simon, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Xu Bing, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Yang Fudong, Shirin Neshat, Nalini Malani, Pierre Huyghe, Lisa Reihana, Didem Pekün, Ragnar Kjartansson, Jana Winderen, Lu Yang, Sondra Perry, Ian Cheng, Kahlil Joseph, Wong Ping, and Rachel Rossin.
ITEM 2020.014 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Global Groove – Nam June Paik
Global Groove – John Godfrey
Theme Song – Vito Acconci
Aen – Peter Campus
Organic Honey's Vertical Roll – Joan Jonas
Vertical Roll – Joan Jonas
Twilight – Joan Jonas
Mirage – Joan Jonas
Handphone Table – Laurie Anderson
O Superman – Laurie Anderson
The Space Between the Teeth – Bill Viola
He Weeps for You – Bill Viola
Room for St. John of the Cross – Bill Viola
Soundings – Gary Hill
Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place – Gary Hill
Mirroring – Dara Birnbaum
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman – Dara Birnbaum
Kiss the Girls – Dara Birnbaum
Life of Phillis – Tony Oursler
System for Dramatic Feedback – Tony Oursler
Pickelporno – Pipilotti Rist
Ever Is Over All – Pipilotti Rist
Jeanne Dielman, 2, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman
Head – Cheryl Donegan
Host – Kristin Lucas
Nest of Tens – Miranda July
Hiver (La Mort de Robert Walser) (Winter [The Death of Robert Walser]) – Thierry Kuntzel
Silent Movie – Chris Marker
Slowly Turning Narrative – Bill Viola
Hardcell – Judith Barry
Hardcell – Brad Miskell
Eine Faust in der Tasche machen (Make a Fist in the Pocket) – Marcel Odenbach
Evening – Stan Douglas
Lovers – Teiji Furuhashi
Security by Julia VI – Julia Scher
The Erl King – Roberta Friedman
The Erl King – Grahame Weinbren
Cathartic User Interface (CUI) – Perry Hoberman
Hiatus – Ericka Beckman
Memory/Recollection – Jim Campbell
Legible City – Jeffrey Shaw
Legible City – Dirk Groeneveld
Every Icon – John Simon
33 Questions Per Minute – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Book from the Ground – Xu Bing
Our Second Date – Jennifer McCoy
Our Second Date – Kevin McCoy
Turbulent – Shirin Neshat
Gamepieces – Nalini Malani
(Untitled) Human Mask – Pierre Huyghe
UUmwelt – Pierre Huyghe
In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] – Lisa Reihana
Of Dice and Men – Didem Pekün
The Visitors – Ragnar Kjartansson
Ultrafield – Jana Winderen
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Workstation – Sondra Perry
Emissary – Ian Cheng
Until the Quiet Comes – Kahlil Joseph
Fly Paper – Kahlil Joseph
BLKNWS – Kahlil Joseph
Wong Ping's Fables 1 – Wong Ping
Dear, can I give you a hand? – Wong Ping
Stalking the Trace – Rachel Rossin