1982
The article Creative Thinking Device by Gábor Bódy is published in the film journal Filmvilág. INFERMENTAL I is released. In addition to several non-professional film clubs, the Társulás Stúdió handles video.
The first comprehensive collection of translated articles covering the field of video, The World of Video, is published, providing information about the international developments of almost twenty years of video art and video theory.
The First Hungarian Video Festival and Symposium is organised in Nyíregyháza, this national convention subsequently held several times since then.
INFERMENTAL III, edited by László Beke and Péter Forgács, is released. At the end of the year, MAFILM and the Béla Balázs Studio acquire professional video equipment, which essentially allows the initiation of professional Hungarian video work.
23 May, Kossuth Klub
Presentation of the special North-Rhein-Westphalia (Germany) edition of the INFERMENTAL international video magazine.
"Parallel Screenings"
The European Media Art Network is presented simultaneously in eight European cities; the program includes an anthology-like compilation, with a one-hour episode devoted to each city. Gábor Bódy compiles the Budapest component within the framework of the Társulás Stúdió.
Bódy finishes several works (abroad) and commences a number of works in Hungary which, owing to his sudden death, have not been completed.
In Autumn, Hungarian material, realised within the Béla Balázs Studio framework, is presented at the Stockholm Video Festival. László Beke presents a lecture encompassing Hungarian developments in video. This is the first survey, published in Hungarian in 1987 in the volume, Video Alfa.
Second Hungarian National Video Festival and Symposium.
1986In addition to the experimental establishment of a video course at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, a postgraduate video department is established at the Loránd Eötvös University of Art and Sciences (ELTE). The earlier video courses are supplemented by university level video education.
Axis, a video/book by Gábor Bódy and Veruschka Bódy, is published by Dumont.
The Mozgókép Innovációs Társulás (Innovational Moving Picture Association) is established under the direction of István Dárday.
4-5 June, Hungarian National GalleryScreenings of the videos of EMAN (European Median Art Network):
4 June
Montevideo, Amsterdam
Videografia, Barcelona
Infermental, Berlin
LVA, London
5 June
FRIGO, Lyon
Softvideo, Rome
K-videó (K-Section, the experimental department of MAFILM: the Hungarian Film Factory) group, Budapest
29 August, Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle - ChamberThe TIT Artistic Section of Budapest and the Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle present the 5th (Rotterdam) Edition of the INFERMENTAL international video magazine.