“The exhibition MindFrames: Media Study at Buffalo 1973-1990 and the accompanying publication Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990, celebrate a unique ‘setting’: a specific geographic location and point in time when avant-garde film-makers and video artists worked together under a media visionary to set up the first department of media art ever to be established at a university. In 1972, at a time when art that utilized media and its theoretical interrogation did not form part of the curriculum of a university, Gerald O’Grady founded the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo … All faculty members were not only artists but also theorists, who accompanied and commented on the artistic developments and questions concerning their particular media in scholarly publications and lectures … Academies … are not only institutions in which art education takes place, but also locations where art is produced. Here we see that the history of art in the twentieth century is not only the history of individuals, but also the history of institutions. Academies have made history, like the Bauhaus and the Center/Department for Media Study at SUNY at Buffalo.”