On Art and Artists video collection

Approximately 350 videotape interviews and portraits of some 300 artists, musicians, performers, architects, theorists, and critics, made since 1974. The collection includes 90 historic artist interviews produced by Video Data Bank founders Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield between 1974 and 1988; interviews with artists, architects, musicians, critics and other creative practitioners, recorded in conversation with Video Data Bank staff, colleagues from the School of the Art Institute faculty, and others knowledgeable about the particular interviewee’s work; independently produced artist interviews and documentaries produced by artists and by external producers and producing organizations, including Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado; and experimental works by artists, focusing on fellow artists and the artistic process, including experimental portraits of artists, and documentaries about the artistic process, from intimate one-on-one close-ups and dialogues, to full studio production studies. Approximately 140 titles are active distribution through VDB.