C³ Video Archive

The aim of the C³ video archive is the complete compilation, preservation, cataloguing, archiving and digital transfer of Hungarian video art. Primarily, it was visual artists who began to experiment with this difficult-to-access (due to state control) medium in the second half of the 1970s. Their endeavours were not institutionally supported, with the exception of a few independent workshops. The archive aims to preserve these technologically unstable materials (earlier considered radical approaches to the moving image) in digital format, and, based on research, to make them available in their historical and international context.

C³视频档案的宗旨在于对匈牙利视频艺术的完整汇编、保存、编目、归档及数字化转换。起初，主要是视觉艺术家在二十世纪七十年代后半叶开始尝试这一难以接触（由于国家控制）的媒介。他们的努力并未得到机构的支持，除少数独立工作室外。该档案旨在将这批技术不稳定（早期被视为动态影像的激进方法）的材料以数字格式保存，并基于研究，使其在历史和国际背景下得以呈现。