Here you will find PDFs of essays commissioned by the Video Data Bank on the subject of video art and artists, as well as a range of essays about individual artists' work.

We will be adding more content here on a regular basis, so check back often!
Title Author
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot on Three Tales David Allenby
Beryl Korot and Steve Reich on The Cave Jonathan Cott
Text/Weave/Line—Video: An Interview with Beryl Korot by Evelin Stermitz Evelin Stermitz and Beryl Korot
Language as Still Life, Interview with Beryl Korot Valerie Amend and Beryl Korot
Language as Still Life: From Video to Painting Beryl Korot
Beryl Korot in Conversation with Harry Philbrick Harry Philbrick
Florence, Beryl Korot Beryl Korot
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, BOMB Magazine Julia Wolfe
Beryl Korot, interviewed by Laura Amann Laura Amann and Beryl Korot
Beryl Korot's Dachau 1974 in Abstraction and Holocaust Mark Godfrey
Essay on Shadow and Substance Laurie McDonald
Reflections on Hydroglyphs: Early Morning Drift by Laurie McDonald (2020) McDonald, Laurie
Make Believe, It’s Just Like the Truth Clings to It: In Conversation with the Work of Cecilia Dougherty AJ Mendelsohn
Wendy Clarke: Love is All Around Kristin MacDonough
Beyond the Dust: Colonial Legacy in the Desert Martí Madaula Esquirol
Ilene Segalove: Whatever Happened to the Future? Emily Martin
Doldrums: On the Uncanny Domestic Elise Schierbeek
Notes on Black Video: 1987–2001 Emily Martin
‘This isn’t Charlie Rose’: The Making of On Art and Artists and the Politics of Information Distribution Faye Gleisser
Primate Cinema: Apes as Family [eBook] Rachel Mayeri and Matthew Fuller
Association of Moving Image Archivists Poster: Video Data Bank Digitization Project Kristin MacDonough
Ironic Nostalgia: an Interview with Nelson Henricks Mike Hoolboom
Kate Horsfield: The Early Years of the Video Data Bank and On Art and Artists Faye Gleisser
Doug Ischar: Recent Films Doug Iscar
MoMA Projects 100: Akram Zaatari Eva Respini and Ana Janevski
Other Solutions Carrie Lambert
Grow Gills and Swim: The Evolution of Activist Video Gregg Bordowitz
Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art Kate Horsfield
Feminism and Video: A View from the Village Joan Braderman
Stories from a Generation: Video Art at the Woman's Building Cecilia Dougherty
REWIND: A Guide to Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S., 1968-1980 Video Data Bank
Tom Rubnitz / Dynasty Handbag Jibz Cameron, Josh Lubin-Levy, Bryan Bauman, John Kelly, Lady Bunny, Nicholas De Villiers and Joe E. Jeffreys
Consuming Passions: The Video Art of Ximena Cuevas Steve Seid
Video Art Was Born Subversive Davidson Gigliotti
Two or three things I know about him Mark Westmoreland
Perception as Transcendence: Interview with Paweł Wojtasik Scott MacDonald
Koken Ergun: Personal Works of Public Ceremonies. Ian White
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-1980: Attention! Production! Audience! Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980 Chris Hill
Radical Closure Akram Zaatari
Underground Man Gene Youngblood
A Work Aesthetic: The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson Monica McTighe
Eyes to See With Laura Marks
The Prayers and Tears of Paul Chan: Profane Illumination and the Post-Secular in BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER and Now promise now threat Yates Mckee
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Sophisticated Seduction Carol Becker
The Persistence of the Archive: The Documentary Fictions of Daniel Eisenberg Scott Durham
I Say I Am: Women's Performance Video from the 1970s Maria Troy