The New York Women's Video Festival, 1972-1980

The New York Women’s Video Festival, 1972-1980

The New Women’s Video Festival was created in 1972 by Steina Vasulka with the idea of presenting the videos of women artists, which were created at the Kitchen Center for Video in New York. Interestingly, the festival traveled to different cities in the United State, and some cities in Europe. This festival represents the intersection of the origin of video and feminist art. Melinda Barlow points out that little attention was paid to the issue that portable video and feminist were art born together.