Spring 2018

Welcome to the Spring 2018 issue of VoCA Journal, the second in an occasional series focusing on media arts. Contributors to this issue inhabit the sometimes overlapping roles of artists, collectors, art historians, and conservators; each is a stakeholder with a deep interest in the history, research, display, and preservation of modern and contemporary media arts.

Editor's Note

“And there was violent relaxation”
Art’s Ambivalence Toward the Age of the Internet

Megan Driscoll

Jem Cohen, film still from This Is a History of New York, 1987

On the edge of night
The Standby Program

Marshall Reese

Pretty Cool
Carl Thoma on Collecting Digital Art

Kate Lewis with Carl Thoma

Rewind
A Brief History of Caring for Video Art in the United States

Peter Oleksik

The viewing station in the Guggenheim’s time-based media conservation lab

A Commitment to Perpetual Learning
Practical Training in Time-based Media Conservation

Joanna Phillips and Alexandra Nichols

Video’s New Normal
The Logic of Pipilotti Rist’s “Image Errors”

Gloria Sutton

Main image
Pipilotti Rist, The Tender Room, 2011
Audio video installation
Installation view, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Tender Room, 2011
Photo: Kevin Fitszimons, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth