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m003. Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Arts (ATCA)

 Record Group
Identifier: m003
Serving as an interface among University of Iowa facilities–the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, the University Libraries, and a number of academic units–Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts (ATCA) is committed to the collection and preservation of works and papers of contemporary artists and to the facilitation and dissemination of research related to the post-World War II avant-garde. The project was founded by Estera Milman in 1982, and Milman acted as its director until her departure from the University in 2000. Composed of a complex body of contemporary artifacts and documentation spanning such phenomena as Fluxus, event arts and happenings, book works and visual poetry, artists’ video, correspondence art, conceptual art, performance relics, and artists’ papers, the collection is similar in kind to holdings housed at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Artists' Television Network Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0800
Abstract

Video by and about artists assembled for broadcast on the New York City cable networks between 1976 and 1984. The project was coordinated by Jaime Davidovich and the collection includes the cablecast material, in many cases edited in various ways for any of several anthology shows, as well as paper records. A portion of the collection has been re-recorded and is available in VHS format; a few pieces have been transcribed to DVD; and a growing number have been re-recorded digitally in DVCam and DVD versions.

Dates: 1976-1984

ATCA Artists' Works and Correspondence Files Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0764
Abstract

This ATCA collection brings together mail art, correspondence, photographs, slides, compact discs, show announcements/posters, writings, and other ephemera related to or by various artists.

Dates: 1968-2010

Steven Durland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0787
Abstract

Writer, sculptor, performance artist, and editor of High Performance magazine. Personal correspondence and documentation as well as artworks and other documentation from the Not Clay International Mail Art Show, co-curated by Durland and Melvin Tearle in 1977, and The Cover, co-curated by Durland and Robert Harris in 1978.

Dates: 1977-1983

Ken Friedman ATCA Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0839
Abstract

Personal papers, correspondence, publications of this educator and artist.

Dates: -

Artwords and Bookworks Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0517
Abstract

Co-curated by Judith Hoffberg and Joan Hugo, Artwords and Bookworks was one of the largest exhibition of artists' books and ephemera to take place during the 1970s. Comprised of experimental works by approximately six hundred contributors, the exhibition presented a diverse and provocative sampling of this alternative art form.

Dates: 1970-1978