"[A]n unabashed personal history coupled with a treasure trove of straight-forward facts about the artists, the art works, and the technological twists and turns that produced this art... Must read for anyone wanting both a personalized dialogue and encyclopedic knowledge on an art form that now dominates our contemporary art landscape." - Dara Birnbaum, artist
"Reflects on a fast-moving medium... [the book] identifies the central figures at each stage of the medium's development in extended essays." - The Art Newspaper
"Video/Art is both an affectionate and knowledgeable piece of work, full of personal experiences and reflections as well as being a meticulous history of the form." - Trebuchet Magazine
"London's new book, Video/Art: The First 50 Years, is a comprehensive vision of video art from the early practitioners up to present-day and beyond. Video/Art explores the impact and evolution of this "space-age medium", envisioning the scope and possibilities that new technologies could create in the future." - Dazed Digital
"No history of video art is as comprehensive and essential as the new Video/Art: The First 50 Years by Barbara London." - ARTnews Online
"One of the art form's founders makes the case that video art can one day rival the popularity of painting and sculpture." - Bloomberg
"Fifty years ago, video art didn't exist. Now, social-media users watch billions of clips a day. One curator [Barbara London] has seen it all change... London's new book, Video/Art: The First 50 Years, is the first survey of how the art world changed. More than that: in the age of the smartphone, her book is a history of how Western society was transformed." - The Telegraph
"Readers plunge into a hub of buzzing counterculture via memories of pivotal experimentation and underground screenings." - Aesthetica magazine
"Barbara London's indispensable and enticingly personal history... [in which] few guides are more qualified to lead readers through the rapid rise of the once renegade art form... What makes her book such a fun read is that it's not exactly the comprehensive survey its title implies. Instead, it's as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches." - New Yorker Online
"The book is a backstage account of video's evolution, written by one of its first specialized curators." - Performa Magazine Online
