Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement, the Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The collections include seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960s and continuing to the present.The first printed catalog of the Video Data Bank's complete holdings, Feedback offers readers essays on the history of media arts, the Video Data Bank, video activism, experimental performance art, and the On Art and Artists Collection. It includes 325 frame grabs and stills from some of the collection's most important pieces and outlines the styles and directions taken by artists throughout the entire history of video art. An indispensable guide and reference for artists, students, teachers, and collectors, Feedback is an essential book for any film and video bookshelf.

Kate Horsfield co-founded the Video Data Bank with Lyn Blumenthal in 1976 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Executive Director.Lucas Hilderbrand is a Ph.D. candidate in cinema studies at New York University. His writings have appeared in Camera Obscura and Film Quarterly.

Introduction to the Video Data Bank Collections – Kate Horsfield
1. Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art – Kate Horsfield
2. Grow Gills and Swim: The Evolution of Activist Video – Gregg Bordowitz
3. Vertical Hold: A History of Women's Video Art – Vanalyne Green
4. Performance Art and Experimental Video: Highlights from the Video Data Bank Collection – Peggy Phelan
5. Video Art Collection
6. Video Art Anthologies
7. On Art and Artists: An Introduction – Kate Horsfield
8. On Art and Artists Collection
Ordering Information
Artist Index
Title Index