For twenty five years, Steve Seid was a Film and Video Curator at the Pacific Film Archive, a department of the University of California, Berkeley. He organized almost 1,000 programs of video art, film, and new media for the PFA’s public programs. These programs typically circulated around cultural, historical, and aesthetic ideas with experimental media being the prevalent form showcased. Seid also oversaw an on-going video preservation project and for ten years conducted annual workshops on visual literacy for high school teachers. He has taught video aesthetics and history courses at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the California College of Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Following on the ambitious preservation of videotapes from the National Center for Experiments in Television (1967-1975), Seid curated Videospace (2000), a gallery exhibition dedicated to the first TV Lab. He also co-curated the first museum retrospective of Ant Farm, the ‘60s/’70s art collective and creators of Cadillac Ranch and Media Burn, which toured internationally through 2006. In the fall of 2020, Inventory Press released Seid’s in-depth critique of Ant Farm’s seminal 1975 performance and videowork Media Burn. Sumptuously illustrated, the book, Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of An Image, considers the spectacular circulation of a single image and its transformation as a precursor to the media-driven meme.