Julia Konstantinova, Novoye Russkoye Slovo, April 16/2001

Nina Zaretskaya, founder and director of Art Media Center “TV Gallery”, presented a specially arranged for New York video program “Female View”, a three-hour screening of the video works of women artists from Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Video and multimedia art, which use new technologies as the foundation of the art process (mainly various ways of video and computer elaboration of images), has appeared not long ago. In America and Europe video art became available in the 60s with the appearance of a video camera. First attempts to use a personal computer for creation of an art piece were made in the West in the late 70s. In the Soviet Union video and computer art appeared only in the late 80s. In 1991 Nina Zaretskaya founded Art Media Center “TV Gallery” in Moscow, which has become a significant landmark in the development of this trend in Russia. Within 10 years the Center has turned into a respectable organization, which produces independent video films, TV programs about art, noncommercial projects, develops international contacts, participating in video festivals and arranging exhibitions (such leading American video artists as Nam June Paik and Mary Lucier were exhibited in “TV Gallery”). But the main trend of the Center’s activities is to support and stimulate the development of Russian video art.

Let us hope that the participation in the exhibition EVALUTZIA will become only the beginning of the permanent activities of Art Media Center “TV Gallery” in New York and that Russian video art will find its place at the Hudson’s banks.