Man seated amid video synthesizers, monitors and tangled patch cables in a brick-walled studio

Experimental Television Center Archive


“Before MTV, before Industrial Light and Magic, a radical group of people believed that television was an art medium. They felt free to play with the television signal to make funky, sophisticated, chaotic, poetic, raw, cutting edge, disruptive, politically savvy, artistically elegant tapes that were the antithesis of the broadcast television of then and most of now.” —Ann-Sargent Wooster

Woman at a Sony video deck glances back; a TV beside her shows static
Sherry Miller Hocking (1972). Photo: Van Dousmanis.

Experimental Television Center Archive [archive.org]