Sara Hornbacher, guest editor of Art Journal for the Fall 1985 issue, (also the first Art Journal ever to be entirely dedicated to video art), provides reasoning for the 11 articles and reviews she chose for the issue, and states "it has been my inetntion...to suggest the scope of video art's brief history and to isolate particular theoretcal issues, without recourse to a totalizing principle"(Hornbacher, 191). The article cites the opinions of Benjamin Buchloch, who is featured in the issue, Katherine Dieckmann, catalogue author and commentator of Electra: Electricity and Electroncs in 20th Century Art, Hayden White, author of Tropics of Discourse, Barbara London, Paul Virilio author of Pure War, Ann-Sargent Wooster, author of Why Don't They Tell Stories Like They Used To?, and Lori Zippay.