Trivia

Carla Liss arrived in London in 1968 and became the Co-op's first and for many years only employee. Her role organising distribution led to an important set of New American Cinema prints being deposited in London. n November 1968, a fall-out over the future direction of the Arts Lab created an organisational split. The Co-op collection was temporarily housed in members' flats before new premises were found near Euston Station.

The Institute for Research in Art and Technology IRAT, also known as New Arts Lab, was founded in London in 1969 by a group of artists and activists including painter/author Pamela Zoline, video Pioneer John Hopkins, painter Biddy Peppin, film enthusiast David Curtis, arts theorist John Lifton composer Hugh Davies. Its early focus was on video, film, theatre and new media but this was subsequently expanded to include experimental literature, drama, sculpture and multimedia all based on art/technology crossovers.

John "Hoppy" Hopkins (1937-2015) was the founder of TVX and DIY television. Hopkins was a British photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, and "one of the best-known underground figures of 'Swinging London' " in the late 1960s.