About VDB TV

Launched in 2015, VDB TV is an innovative digital distribution project which provides free, online streaming access to curated programs of video and media art.

Sourced from the historically significant archives of the Video Data Bank, VDB TV includes work from early video pioneers active in the 1960s and 70s, through to emerging contemporary artists. VDB TV offers viewers across the United States and beyond access to rare video art, the opportunity to engage with programs conceived by a wide range of curators, and original writing, all while ensuring that artists are compensated for their work.

Current

Program 63: October 2024 – Democracy and Demagoguery

Past

Program 1: May 2015 - The Feminist Origins: VDB's On Art and Artists Interview Collection

Program 2: July 2015 - Tuned In, Turned On: Videofreex Tape the World

Program 3: October 2015 - FEELINGS, programmed by Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith

Program 4: December 2015 - Histories of Sexuality, organized by Johanna Burton with Alicia Ritson 

Program 5: February 2016 - American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford, programmed by Nelson Henricks

Program 6: May 2016 - Ship of Fools, programmed by George William Price

Program 7: July 2016 - Invalid data: dreaming through the gaps, programmed by Abina Manning and Eugenia Marketou

Program 8: September 2016 - CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits, programmed by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White

Program 9: November 2016 - VDB TV: Decades - The Whole World Is (Still) Watching, programmed by Solveig Nelson

Program 10: January 2017 - VDB TV: Decades - The Electric Mirror: Reflecting on Video Art in the 1970s, programmed by Robyn Farrell

Program 11: March 2017 - VDB TV: Decades - Problematizing Pleasure / Punk Theory, programmed by Steve Reinke

Program 12: May 2017 - VDB TV: Decades - Future-Past-Present: A Journey Through the Twenty-Tens So Far, programmed by Omar Kholeif

Program 13: August 2017 - VDB TV: Decades - Sandwiched Between Trauma and Apocalypse: history as it intersects with biography and the rewriting of the past, curated by Aily Nash

Program 14: October 2017 - James Casebere and Landscape with Houses, Rima Yamazaki

Program 15: February 2018 - Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Bio Art & Poetry [1980-2010]

Program 16: April 2018 - Miyoko Ito: An Interview

Program 17: July - August 2018 - What Farocki Taught

Program 18: September - October 2018 - Animal Charm

Program 19: November - December 2018 - a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert

Program 20: December 2018 - January 2019 - Kuchar Christmas

Program 21: January - February 2019 - The Diaspora Suite: Fluid Frontiers, Ephraim Asili

Program 22: March 2019 - Paweł Wojtasik: The Aquarium

Program 23: April - May 2019 - Semiotics of the Kitchen: Then and Now, Martha Rosler

Program 24: June - July 2019 - Gregg Bordowitz Part 1 & 2 

Program 25: August - September 2019 - Laura Parnes

Program 26: October - November 2019 - Anne McGuire

Program 27: November - December 2019 - Filipa César

Program 28: December 2019 - January 2020 - Winter Landscapes

Program 29: January - March 2020 - Glenn Belverio

Program 30: March - June 2020 - Re-release of VDB TV : Decades

Program 31: June - July 2020 - On the Campaign Trail with Joan Jett Blakk

Program 32: August - September 2020 -The Feminist Origins: VDB's On Art and Artists Interview Collection

Program 33: September - October 2020 Video Art and Mass Incarceration Part I, programmed by Zach Vanes

Program 34: October - November 2020 Video Art and Mass Incarceration Part II, programmed by Zach Vanes

Program 35: November 2020 Political Advertisement X 1952-2020

Program 36: November - December 2020 Video Art and Mass Incarceration Part III, programmed by Zach Vanes

Program 37: December 2020 - January 2021 Holidays with the Kuchars

Program 38: January - March 2021 Zach Blas: Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1-3

Program 39: March - April 2021 Stephen Varble on VDB TV – Lady Hercules, a Prelude to 'Journey to the Sun'

Program 40: April - May 2021 Gene Youngblood: An Interview 2006

Program 41: May - June 2021 Kings of the Sky 

Program 42: June - July 2021 PROTEST

Program 43: August 2021 I Wanna Be Well: Gregg Bordowitz

Program 44: August - October 2021 Notes on Black Video: 1987–2001, programmed by Emily Martin

Program 45: October - December 2021 Hans Breder

Program 46: December 2021 - February 2022 Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street

Program 47: February - April 2022 Points of View – Video Artists Read the World, programmed by Abina Manning

Program 48: April - June 2022 Springtime with Mike Kuchar

Program 49: June - July 2022 This Must Be the Space: A Video Conversation on Artist-Run and Artist-Inhabited Spaces, programmed by Emily Eddy

Program 50: August - October 2022 “Make Believe, It’s Just like the Truth Clings to It”: In Conversation with the Work of Cecilia Dougherty, programmed by Amanda Mendelsohn

Program 51: November 2022 - January 2023 - NDN Survival Trilogy

Program 52: February - March 2023 - Jim Finn: La Trinchera Luminosa

Program 53: April - May 2023 - Doldrums: On the Uncanny Domestic, programmed by Elise Schierbeek

Program 54: June - July 2023 - Ilene Segalove: Whatever Happened to the Future?, programmed by Emily Martin

Program 55: August - September 2023 - Germán Bobe: Dreaming in the Gardens of Love

Program 56: October - November 2023 - Tom Rubnitz & Mark Oates: Psykho III The Musical

Program 57: November - December 2023 - Eiko & Koma

Program 58: December 2023 - January 2024 - Eiko Otake

Program 59: January – February 2024 Eiko Otake with Wen Hui: No Rule is Our Rule

Program 60: February – April 2024 Beyond the Dust: Colonial Legacy in the Desert, programmed by Martí Madaula Esquirol

Program 61: May 2024 – Movement Exercises

Program 62: June – August 2024 – Saif Alsaegh: Bittersweet Landscape