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 | 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 |