Directed by Lola Bonora, the Center has been an internationally prominent laboratory of artistic practices developed through the language of video, at the intersection of Conceptual Art, Body art, Performance art, and Land art.

The extensive holdings of tapes – 450 videos preserved on different media relating to more than 350 works and documentations of artistic interest – and the vast photographic and documentary archive testify to the collaboration with some of the leading protagonists of the Italian and foreign scene of the 1970s-1980s: Fabrizio Plessi, Christina Kubisch, Claudio Cintoli, Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian, Federica Marangoni, Marina Abramović and Ulay, Giuseppe Chiari, Michele Sambin, Vincenzo Agnetti, Sergio Lombardo, Pietro Gilardi, Nam June Paik, Wolf Kahlen, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Maurizio Bonora, Maurizio Camerani, Enzo Minarelli, Giorgio Cattani, to name but a few. Part of the collection also documents exhibition activity at Palazzo dei Diamanti and preserves interviews with some of the major post-World War II artists, including Sebastian Matta, Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.

The video collection, threatened by the technological obsolescence of the media, was the subject of a conservative intervention aimed at preserving and securing all the works, carried out in collaboration with the Department of History and Protection of Cultural Heritage – La Camera Ottica Laboratory of the University of Udine. The project was partly implemented thanks to the generous support of the Giuseppe Pianori Foundation.