Video and Sound Recordings of Events
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Artists Talk on Art
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content: Artists Talk on Art records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Linear Feet (Boxes 6-65)
label: Extent
content: 316.99 Gigabytes (ER03-ER04)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977-2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.artitalk, Series 9
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content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Event recordings are listed in chronological order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Most of the events that were recorded have been digitized for preservation and access. A subset of sound recordings of events dated 1977-1992 were digitized in 2008, and a comprehensive set of video and sound recordings of events dated 1977-2016 were digitized in 2016-2017. During the 2016-2017 preservation project, where multiple video and sound recordings were made of a single event, as was often the case, a single master version was generally selected to be digitized.

Events that were recorded but not digitized are described in the series along with digitized recordings, with a physical box location added to facilitate research requests for access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series contains video and sound recordings of public programs presented by Artists Talk on Art, including panel discussions, public interviews, and slide lectures by hundreds of artists, gallerists, critics, curators, and collectors on a wide range of contemporary art subjects that were held in New York City between 1977 and 2016. Programs were recorded on a range of analog and early digital media, often in multiple formats simultaneously. A few of the programs were edited into shorter versions, and samplers of excerpts from a season's programs were created for a few seasons.

ATOA's recordings chronicle the American art world, covering critical discussions and significant art world issues over five decades. Thousands of artists such as Will Barnet, Louise Bourgeois, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Robert De Niro, Agnes Denes, Michael Goldberg, Robert Longo, Ana Mendieta, Robert Morris, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Philip Pavia, Howardena Pindell, Larry Rivers, Sylvia Sleigh, Kahinde Wiley, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz, and others speak about their work.  The original recordings exist in a variety of analog sound and video formats. 

Participants in each event are listed in the series listing. Events were often organized by their moderators or by a core group of ATOA organizers, including Doug Sheer, Donna Marxer, Leon Golub, Molly Barnes, George Rada, Fran Kornfeld, and Lynne Mayocole.