Data Toward the Study of the History of Hungarian Video Art

1987 Several attempts are made at establishing video magazines in printed or cassette form, such as the Alternative Video Anthology edited by Tibor Miltényi in Budapest (only four editions), whose analogue, p'Art, is edited in Paris, and which has released eight issues up until January, 1990. 19 January -18 February, Ernst Museum The nine video works made by Bódy abroad between 1982 and 1985 are presented in a retrospective exhibition, within an installation realised by Gábor Bachman, and are shown for the first time in Hungary. 26-27 January, Kossuth Klub Presentation of the 4^th Edition (1985, Lyon) INFERMENTAL international video magazine, edited by FRIGO. 27 January, Kassák Klub Hejettes Szomjazók (Substitute Thirsters): Cave Survey Gábor Tóth: Performances on video Presentation of the new video magazine, VIDEA (András Réz, Gábor Tóth) Spring 1987 The first independent video journal, Fekete Doboz (Black Box) magazine, is instituted. 26 March, Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle Presentation of Cassette I. of the Alternativ video-anthology. 10 April, Kossuth Klub Presentation of INFERMENTAL VI. (Vancouver, Canada). Editors: Vera Bódy and Hank Bull Chapters: Satellite Control, Poetical Oeconomy, Telepathic Music, Fractal Grammar, Myxology 27 May, Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle Genre Experiments, Media Research Editors: Vera Bódy and Hank Bull Presentation of Cassette II. of the Alternatív video-anthology. 22 October, Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle Miklós Peternák - János Sugár: "Actual Closed-Circuit": Film Utopias III. 19-22 November, Nyíregyháza Third Hungarian National Video Festival and Symposium.
1988	The Hungarian Television premieres the program, Video World, which at the beginning includes thematic programs dealing with video, and gradually covers the developments of Hungarian and international video art.
István Dárday and Györgyi Szalay realise the work, Video on Video. Numerous cinemas present videos, and video screening rooms within cinemas are established. 18 February, Szkéné Theater Presentation of the video opera by Gábor Litván - János Sugár: The Immortal Culprits. 28 November, Almássy tér Culture House Hungarian presentation of INFERMENTAL VIII. 29 November - 2 December, Kossuth Cinema Video Art, International Panorama. 29 November Selection from the video works of Gábor Bódy. 30 November Selection of video works from West Germany. - Zeittransgraphie (Compilation of works by the students of Martin Potthoff at the Berlin Film Academy, based on an idea of Gábor Bódy.) - E.M.A.N. (European Media Art Network), K-videó group, Budapest, 1985, Társulás Studio, compiled by Gábor Bódy. 1 December Selection of video work from Japan. 2 December FRIGO (Lyon), French video work.
1989 With the introduction of the satellite in Hungary and with the spread of satellite dishes, the video-clip culture virtually booms in Hungary. The mass-production of video-clips in Hungary begins. The Academy of Appplied Arts graduates its first class in video. Hungarian video works, complied by the Béla Balázs Studio, are presented at several Western and Eastern European festivals. Additionally, international video works are now more regularly screened in Hungary. The activity of Black Box is unequivocally the most significant video venture, due to its political approach which fosters popularity, in the same way as does the most important media event of the year, the televised Romanian Revolution - linked to the political changes./P> 6-10 September, Szigetvár RETINA '89, First International Film and Video Festival. (Thereafter, a biennial festival.) 22-23 May, ELTE (Lóránd Eötvös University of Sciences) Faculty Club Videocommunication, professional presentation and symposium. The theme of the discussion was the Hungarian situation of higher educational training in video. Participants: Hungarian Academy of Drama and Film, Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, MTESZ-OPAKFI, Lóránd Eötvös University of Sciences.
1990 Private Hungary a video by Péter Forgács, is awarded the Grand Prize of the Worldwide Video Festival, The Hague, and a significant prize is also awarded to András Wahorn's work, Eastern European Living Animals, at the Sydney Video Festival. The installation exhibition Distance is held at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, presenting works by Tamás Komoróczky, Csaba Nemes, Attila Szûcs and Zsolt Veress. The Intermedia Department is established at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, in which video training plays a role. 11-15 April, Nyíregyháza Fourth Hungarian National Video Festival. From the invitation: "Aims of the events: - assuring the possibility for the new communications equipment of our age, popularizing video - presentation of the current state of domestic video, changes ensuing since the previous Festival, appraisal of development - transmission and exchange of new information in video theory and practice, creation of the possibility for acquaintance and consultation for professionals We announced the following categories for competition of works produced 1987-90 in the proposed programme of the IV. Hungarian Video Festival: I. Programmes assisting Production, Education and Culture. II. Community and Public Life video programmes (cable TV, etc.). III. Video Art programmes (video art, experimental video). IV. Information and advertising programmes. V. Entertainment programmes. VI. Private videóprogrammes." 16 July, Balázs Béla Studio Péter Forgács' "Mr. N.'s Diary"