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.
  Electronic musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello creates sonic installations that function to give a physical form or space to audio. He has also composed soundtracks for film and media artists such as Nam Jun Paik, Tony Oursler, and Dara...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, music, performance |
Part of the Long Beach Museum of Art’s Collectors of the Seventies series, this tape enters the home and art collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. The Vogels live in a nondescript high-rise in the Yorkville section of New York City’s...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art collectors, art criticism, interview |
Although trained as an art historian, Jeff Wall has been working on his expansive photographic light boxes of staged scenes for more than 25 years. Using back-lit, photographic transparencies typically used for advertising display, Wall subverts...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, photography |
Michele Wallace's attention to the invisibility and/or fetishization of black women in the gallery and museum worlds has made possible new critical thinking around the intersection of race and gender in African American visual and popular culture...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: african-american, art criticism, interview, race |
In today’s youth-oriented society, the experience and knowledge of older women is typically unheralded and neglected. Countering these ideas is Suzanne Lacy’s Whisper, The Waves, The Wind—a performance evoking and reinforcing the strong...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: aging, feminism, performance |
Director Jonathan Reiss and cinematographer/editor Leslie Asako Gladsjo traveled to Europe with Survival Research Laboratories to produce this entertaining and challenging portrait of the innovative group of artist technicians. The tape shows...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: performance, technology |
Linda Williams writes on what she calls “body genres”: melodrama, horror, and, most famously, pornography. One of the most influential feminist film scholars to emerge in the 1980s, she wrote important essays on the women’s film (melodrama)...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Pat Ward Williams’s socially charged works confront issues of race, often dealing specifically with African-American history and identity. Using a variety of photographic processes, video, audio tapes, assemblage and text, Williams layers...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: african-american, history, interview, photography, race |
David Wilson is the founder and curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. His collection of found and contributed objects provides an astonishing array of materials derived from craft and nature. Interview by Rachel Weiss. A...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
