The collections are organized as follows:

Early Video Art is a collection of over 200 titles that are central to an understanding of the historical development of video art. This collection includes, but is not limited to, many titles from the Castelli-Sonnabend collection, the first and most prominent collection of video art assembled in the United States. All of the work in this collection was produced between 1968 and 1980. These works represent excellent examples of the first experiments in video art and include conceptual and feminist performances recorded on video, experiments with the video signal, and "guerilla" documentaries representing a counter-cultural view of the historical events of the 1960's and 70's. All of the tapes represent a desire for a radically redefined television experience that is centered on the innovative, the personal, the political and the non-commercial.

Independent Video and Alternative Media is a growing collection of over 750 works made by contemporary video and media artists from 1980 to the present. These works cover a wide range of themes, such as conceptualism, gender studies, performance, technology, feminism, AIDS, culture jamming, history and multi-cultural identity.

On Art and Artists is a collection of over 270 video taped interviews with visual and sound artists, photographers, architects, writers and critics, often focusing on the development of the artists' body of work. The interviews are intended to draw out intimate views of each artist and point to the deeper intentions of the work, as well as highlight the influences, changes in direction, differences in strategy and use of materials central to the making of the work. These tapes can be used in conjunction with exhibitions of the artists' work and/or in curricula dedicated to the development of young artist's practice.