This comprehensive package on the history of experimental and independent video is an essential tool for teachers, libraries, and researchers. Surveying the First Decade includes:

- 17 hours of historic video on 9 VHS tapes— exploring conceptual, performance-based,image-processed, feminist, documentary, and grassroots community organization genres

- 68 seminal titles by over 50 artists, including work from 1968 to 1980

-Rewind, a 200+ page study guide with curator's essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, artists' biographies and videographies, and a guide to collections of early video materials.

Producer: Kate Horsfield
Curator: Christine Hill
ProjectCoordinator: Maria Troy
Consultants to the Project: Deirdre Boyle, Doug Hall, Ulysses Jenkins, Barbara London, Ken Marsh, Leanne Mella, Martha Rosler, Steina Vasulka, and Lori Zippay.

Christine Hill Essay:
Attention! Production! Audience!—
Performing Video in the first Decade, 1968-1980