Abstract

Given that specialized archive sites, such as video tape which acts as a repository for information about video art (tapes, printed material, archives), are only accessible to users/ members of the general public who are in the geographical location of the site, could new technologies be employed to assist in making such specialized locations into “decentred” centres, capable of serving the research and pedagogical needs of students, researchers, curators and other interested individuals and publics?

• Lisa Steele. Video artist and co-founder of V TAPE, an information and distribution system for media works by artists and independents. She teaches video in the Integrated Media Program at the Ontario College of Art, Canada.