#video-data-bank

#video-data-bank

In 1973, gallerist Howard Wise concluded his manifesto with an urgent appeal to build bold and "imaginative funding" structures for video artists. Wise's manifesto would become a foundational document for the video distributor Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), which he founded in 1971 shortly after closing his eponymous gallery. Like many arts manifestos, the text is saturated with a spirit of utopian dreaming; its language is rhetorically structured around "potential" and "possibility," and generates a future-oriented imaginary

"Other structural and mission changes are happening as well," Colley wrote in an email that was posted to social media. "I have heard that there will be no acquisitions or programming." Colley said that the school had made these decisions "without the knowledge or input of VDB staff," and that the organization's future was "uncertain." Colley concluded his note by writing, "We sincerely want to find a way forward for the Video Data Bank."