Infermental (1982–1991)

INFERMENTAL – International-Fermentum-Mental – is the first international magazine on videocassettes, initiated by the Hungarian filmmakers Gábor and Vera Bódy in 1980. Alternating editors from different countries assembled approximately annually a five to seven hours lasting video magazine, that informed of the latest tendencies in audio-visual arts.
»Infermental«'s 10 issues + 1 special issue (altogether about 70 hours and more than 1500 artists from 36 countries) are on loan in the video collection of ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Infermental 1	Editors: Gábor Bódy, Astrid Heibach Supervisor: Gusztáv Hámos	Berlin/West, Germany	1982
	37 contributions, 8 countries, 4 hours
Infermental 2	Editors: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Rotraut Pape Supervisor: Vera Bódy	Hamburg, Germany	1982/83
	77 contributions, 15 countries, 6 hours
Infermental 3	Editors: Peter Forgacs, László Beke Co-editors: Malgorzata Potocka, Peter Hutton, Egon Bunne Supervisor: Rotraut Pape Production secretary: Zoltán Bonta	Budapest, Hungary	1983/84
	99 contributions, 18 countries, 6 hours
Special Issue NRW	This edition presents a selection of works mainly from Germany's state North Rhine-Westphalia from 1984. The editors couldn’t find philosophical-visual trend directions from the submitted works. Nevertheless this issue excels in the high quality of individual works (Joan Jonas, Marcel Odenbach, Birgit Antoni). (Vera Bódy)	Wuppertal, Germany	1984/85
Infermental 4	Editors: FRIGO (Gérard Couty, Mike Hentz, Christian Vanderborght) Supervisor: Astrid Heibach	Lyon, France	1985
	102 contributions, 14 countries, 7 hours
Infermental 5	Editors: Leonie Bodeving, Rob Perrée, Lydia Schouten Supervisor: Egon Bunne	Rotterdam, Netherlands	1986
	39 contributions, 13 countries, 5 hours
Infermental 6	Editors: Vera Bódy, Hank Bull Supervisor: Gérard Couty	Vancouver, Canada	1987
	59 contributions, 25 countries, 6 hours
Infermental 7	Editors: Tony Conrad, Chris Hill, Peter Weibel Supervisor: Rotraut Pape	Buffalo, USA	1988
	58 contributions, 17 countries, 5 hours
Infermental 8	Editors: Keiko Sei, Alfred Birnbaum Supervisor: Mike Hentz, Hank Bull	Tokyo, Japan	1988
	73 contributions, 15 countries, 5 hours
Infermental 9	Editors: Ilse Gassinger, Graf + ZYX Supervisor: Chris Hill	Wien, Austria	1989
	45 contributions, 15 countries, 5 hours
Infermental 10	Editors: Heiko Daxl, Evgenija Dimitrieva Supervisor: Keiko Sei	Osnabrück, Germany / Skopje, Yugoslavia	1991
	51 contributions, 16 countries, 6 hours