Fall 2007 Project

This semester I will be working on the Artists' Television Network, a project in Digital Library Services.  My mentor will be Nicki Saylor, head of that unit.

The Artists’ Television Network was a cable broadcast channel in New York operating from 1976 to 1984. All tapes were donated by Jaime Davidovich, President, Cable Soho. Exact administrative structure is unclear, but Cable Soho and ATN are more or less the same thing, with Cable Soho the station that broadcast on the AT Network.

Tapes consist of interviews, variety shows, and original video and performance art. Major figures in collection include Cindy Sherman, John Cage, Gregory Battcock, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, Marina Abramavic and Ulay, Lucy Lippard, jean Dupuy, and Nam June Paik.

The collection started in the mid-1980’s when Davidovich donated the materials to the University of Iowa’s Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art collection, under direction of Estera Milman. Vision for the ATN project included using the collection as a base from which to expand into an media and research center.