On Art and Artists
The majority of the On Art and Artists collection represents almost 40 years of producing and acquiring interviews with contemporary artists, architects, theorists, and critics. The collection features interviews made by the Video Data Bank and co-founders Lyn Blumenthal & Kate Horsfield, as well as by other individual producers and producing organizations such as Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado visiting artist program. In addition, the collection includes a number of titles relating to the artists' process, including experimental documentaries and profiles.
  In 1964, Steina Vasulka (then Steinunn Bjarnadottir) married Woody Vasulka, a Czech engineer with a background in film. They later moved...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles |
Performance engineers Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) construct machines that live in their own fictional world, acting out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperated consumption, and tragic recognition. This film presents a fractured...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, performance |
Jeremy Blake used digital media to create works that function on a flexible spectrum between being more painting-like or more film-like. He created continually looping digital animations with sound to be projected or presented on plasma screens....
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: painting, visual art |
Horace Bristol discusses his long career in photography, which began with shooting for Life and Fortune magazines in the 1930s. His photojournalism took him to the Dutch East Indies and post-war Japan. His documents of...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, photography |
Kaucyila Brooke makes what she describes as ‘wall size photographic sequences in comic-strip format that consider lesbian relationships within American popular culture.’ Produced over the past five years, Brooke’s large-scale photo-text...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: feminism, interview, lgbt, photography |
In this interview video and performance artist Nancy Buchanan discusses her feminist and political work. Buchanan comments upon the advantages of video over performance in terms of accessibility—the ability for her videos to circulate and reach...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, film or videomaking, interview, visual art |
Benjamin Buchloh is an influential art critic and historian; he has written extensively on contemporary art for journals and exhibition catalogs, as well as his essay collection Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry (2002). This interview...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews Tags: interview, visual art |
Burgin’s work has established him as both a highly influential artist and a renowned theorist of still and moving images. After 13 years in the United States, Burgin recently returned to live and work in Britain. Burgin returned to London to...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Photographer, theorist, and lecturer Victor Burgin lives and works in London. A Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and former Professor Emeritus of the History of Consciousness at University of California-Santa Cruz, Burgin’s work...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, philosophy |
