Studio Art Library Resources: Video Art Resources

1. A good way of searching WorldCat is a subject search. Click on the "advanced search" tab, then click on the drop-down menu that says "Keyword" and select "Subject." Type in "Video art." (in quotations) and search.

2. Now you'll get a very long list of resources. You have a couple of options now. You can limit the results to a certain kind of material--by clicking on the "visual" tab at the top, you'll get only DVD and VHS resources. If you click "Books," you'll only get books on video art.

3. Or, you can click on the button at the top that says "Related Subjects." This will give you a list of the other subject headings that were common in the list of results. You can search any one that looks useful to you.

4. You could also try simply clicking on one of the results and looking at its record. The record will tell you the title, author/creator, and subject headings associated with the work. If the work is relevant to you, you could try clicking on the author or other subjects in order to find more resources that are similar.

5. Notice that the DVDs that come up in your subject search for "Video art" have the distributor's name in the "Publication" field. This could be someone like Facets Video, Editions a voir, or Films for the Humanities & Sciences. These are video distributors who produce video art, so you can also try an advanced search for one of them in the "Publisher" field.

5. Don't be afraid to play around in WorldCat. Some other subject searches you could try include "Art video" and "Experimental films." If you find a resource you want that's at Princeton, simply click the "Find it at PUL" link in the item's record to search Princeton's catalog.

1. Again, subject searching might be the best way to go. Select "Subject heading" from the drop-down menu and type "Video art" into the search box.

2. Your results page will be a list of subject headings that match your query. You can click on any of the choices, but you might want to start with the top one, "Video art."

3. Now you've got a long list of resources. To find only DVDs, click on "Limit Results Set" in the top right. Next to "Medium," select "Video." Now you've got a manageable list.

4. If you know a specific video artist or work that you are looking for, try doing a subject or keyword search for that as well, and then limiting to videos as before.

1. Facets Video--http://www.facets.org/

2. Films for the Humanities & Sciences--http://ffh.films.com/

3. ARTPIX--http://www.artpix.org/

4. Calliope Media--http://www.flank.com/sites/calliope/

5. Transflux Films--http://www.transfluxfilms.com/

This website focuses on Matthew Barney's seminal Cremaster cycle.

Promotes media-based art, has an archive of video art works, and has a section of "open calls" with opportunities for artists.

Links to digital exhibitions of video art. Look to the right-hand side of the page for links to specific nations' art and try clicking on the link to Video Art Database for more online videos.

Information about celebrated video artist Nam June Paik. Note that while this purports to be his "official" website there is no evidence that his estate approved it.