This group of artists' videotapes was collected for the de Saisset Gallery of the University of Santa Clara by George Bolling, former curator of video, and Lydia Modi Vitale, former director of de Saisset, in whose honor the collection has been named. It represents not only the first museum video collection in California, but also work not found in any other collection in the world. Included are dialog/performances by Joseph Beuys, early tapes by Lynda Benglis, William Wegman, Terry Fox, Paul Kos, Video Hiroba, Douglas Davis, and others. This collection is on extended loan to the University Art Museum from the de Saisset Gallery, and in the coming years, we will be exhibiting, and cataloging and studying the tapes.
