On November 12, 2025, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) “gutted” Video Data Bank (VDB), the essential moving-image art distributor, archive and streaming platform. The elimination of 60% of its staff, including director Tom Colley, and announcement that it would as a result of this reduction no longer acquire new work, sent shock waves through the video art community, including the hundreds of artists represented by the distributor, an illustrious roster including, to name a few, Bruce Nauman, Miranda July, Martha Rosler, Tiffany Shaw, Christopher Harris and Elisabeth Subrin. One artist included in VDB’s catalog is an […]
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