The First Decade: Video from the EAI Archives

The Museum of Modern Art presents The First Decade: Video from the EAI Archives, a retrospective that looks at the early days of video through the archives of Electronic Arts Intermix, one of the world’s leading resources for artists’ video and new media, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The retrospective includes 60 works. Themes explored in this program are technical experiments, video diaries and journals, gesture and the body, community and activism, New York City, cultural essays, subjective documentaries, narrative and anecdote, the video mirror, culture and the construction of identity, and poetics and consciousness. The First Decade was organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media, and Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media, in collaboration with Lori Zippay, Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix. The retrospective will be shown at The Museum of Modern Art from February 26 through March 17, 2002, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater.