Video Data Bank @VideoDataBank
Video art, media art, video art history, artist interviews, and more. Based at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. https://t.co/NuwTwGWLaM vdb.org Chicago, IL Joined April 2009-
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Look at some of the cool @VideoDataBank titles we're adding to our collection this week. Viva video art!
#NewReleases Colectivo Los Ingrávidos on @VideoDataBank
VDB is very excited to announce the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive Collection! vdb.org/vdb-tv. Videos pictured: General Motors (1976), Philip Glass Lecture (1974), How TV works with Dan and Phil (1975). vdb.org/phil-morton-me…
Did you know we have a newsletter? We send out digests of our new releases, links to interviews, screening announcements, and artist news – milestones to celebrate and events to watch out for. You can sign up here! vdb.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b9…
See you at International Film Festival Rotterdam for its 54th edition, Jan 30 – Feb 9, 2025. VDB Director Tom Colley will be in attendance. @IFFR Crystal Z Campbell's CURRENCY (2019) in DINAMO: Embodiment and Martine Syms' Slip (2021) in DINAMO: Disembodiment!
January mood on VDB TV: early works from Bobby Abate and Barry Doupé, programmed by VDB Distribution Manager Emily Martin. vdb.org/vdb-tv
VDB TV presents Jim Finn's The Apocalyptic Is the Mother of All Christian Theology (2023), a psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity. Free to stream through January 14, 2025 at vdb.org/vdb-tv.
Congrats to numberous VDB artists in this year's MCFF! Saif Alsaegh; Basma Alsharif; Colectivo los Ingrávidos; Harun Farocki; Sky Hopinka; Walid Raad; Akram Zaatari; Deborah Stratman; Mona Hatoum; Kevin Jerome Everson; Tony Cokes; Christopher Harris. mediacityfilmfestival.com
'Roundabout' with @Light_Cone this Thursday, December 12 at 6PM @filmcenter. Works on DCP and 16mm. Featured artists include Janice Tanaka, Paolo Gioli, Semiconductor, Sarah Pucill, Stephanie Barber, and Christian Hossner. siskelfilmcenter.org/roundabout-lig…
Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Susan Mogul with Alexandra Juhasz, December 5, 2024, at 6pm CT and hosted by @MediaBurnVideo: mediaburn.org/events/12-5-24…
We've vastly expanded our collection of works by artist Cynthia Madansky! Image: Tarlabaşı (2014). vdb.org/artists/cynthi…
'Roundabout' is back around for its third iteration with @Light_Cone on December 12, 2024, 6PM CT @filmcenter. Featured artists include Janice Tanaka, Paolo Gioli, Semiconductor, Sarah Pucill, Stephanie Barber, and Christian Hossner. siskelfilmcenter.org/roundabout-lig…
THURSDAY! Jessica Bardsley @NUBlockMuseum Climate Crisis + Media Arts Showcase Night I: Sanctuary Stations at 6:30pm, November 21. The artist will be in attendance to present her work-in-progress THE CAVE WITHOUT A NAME (15 min, USA, digital). blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2024/cl…
Many excellent recent additions to the VDB collection at vdb.org/new/releases. Still from The Unstable Object II (2022), Daniel Eisenberg.
October 30th, get spooky with @musicboxtheatre and VDB for a night of works by Tom Rubnitz, curated by Emily Eddy as part of Music Box of Horrors' The Dream Child! Psykho III: The Musical (1985) is preceded by the shorts Pickle Surprise (1989) and Strawberry Shortcut (1989).
Tomorrow @NUBlockMuseum will present Rea Tajiri's feature debut Strawberry Fields (1997), a tumultuous coming-of-age film, a politically-charged road movie, and a multigenerational ghost story. And on Friday, Tajiri's recent documentary Wisdom Gone Wild (2022). Artist in person!
Now showing: SPIN a hard-hitting exposé made using pirated satellite feeds by BRIAN SPRINGER The ‘92 US Presidential Election—a media artist intercepts the secrets and lies of politics and the media. For one week on lecinemaclub.com as part of our ELECTORAL BLUES series.
Muntadas and Reese's Political Advertisement XI 1952-2024 streams 11/6. This new work is currently screening on a Swing State Tour. An accompanying book, 'Read My Lips,' compiles talks with Bill Horrigan, Rick Prelinger, and Tanya Zimbardo. autonomedia.org/product/read-m…
VDB TV: DEMOCRACY AND DEMAGOGUERY Works from the collection concerned with American politics, leadership, and state communications: vdb.org/vdb-tv. Doug Hall, Antoni Muntadas & Marshall Reese.
VDB TV: DEMOCRACY AND DEMAGOGUERY Works from the collection concerned with American politics, leadership, and state communications: vdb.org/vdb-tv. Doug Hall, Antoni Muntadas & Marshall Reese.
Can You Move Like This: Black Fire is our fantastic new compilation release from @keversonkevin and @ClaudrenaHarold, presenting eleven short form works produced between 2013-2023. Available for educational purchase on Blu-ray and DVD: vdb.org/titles/can-you….
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