| Description |
566 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ethnicity, politics, and poetics : Latinos and media art / Coco Fusco -- Behind the image / Muntadas -- Interventions of the present : three interactive videodiscs, 1981-90 / Peter d'Agostino -- The cultural logic of video / Maureen Turim -- The smell of turpentine / Juan Downey -- The importance of being Ernie : taking a close look (and listen) / Bruce Ferguson -- Untitled / Joan Jonas -- Audience culture and the video screen / Norman M. Klein -- Significant others : social documentary as personal portraiture in women's video of the 1980s / Christine Tamblyn -- Video writing / Raymond Bellour -- Appropriation of contemporary reality : an anecdote / Tony Labat -- Directions/question : approaching a future mythology / Rita Myers |
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Introduction : complexities of an art form / Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer -- Video : shedding the Utopian moment / Martha Rosler -- A brief history of American documentary video / Deirdre Boyle -- Dé-collage/collage : notes toward a reexamination of the origins of video art / John G. Hanhardt -- Video art : what's TV got to do with it? / Kathy Rae Huffman -- And if the right hand did not know what the left hand is doing / Gary Hill -- Paradox in the evolution of an art form : great expectations and the making of a history / Marita Sturken -- Television, furniture, and sculpture : the room with the American view / Vito Acconci -- Performance, video, and trouble in the home / Kathy O'Dell |
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Light and death / Mary Lucier -- The new epistemic space / Woody Vasulka -- Three tapes by Steina / Steina -- Video black : the mortality of the image / Bill Viola -- Phototropic / Tony Oursler |
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Video installation art : the body, the image, and the space-in-between / Margaret Morse -- Video in relation to architecture / Dan Graham -- The Rio experience : video's new architecture meets corporate sponsorship / Dara Birnbaum -- The art of the possible / Francesc Torres -- Mobility, as American as ... / Chip Lord -- Aligning The museum reaction piece / Howard Fried -- The feminism factor : video and its relation to feminism / Martha Gever -- The medium is the mess ... age / Bruce and Norman Yonemoto -- This is not a paradox / Judith Barry -- The wild things on the banks of the free flow / Dee Dee Halleck -- The fantasy beyond control / Lynn Hershman -- Reach out and touch someone : the romance of interactivity / Ann-Sargent Wooster |
| Analysis |
Video recordings Production (Arts) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 526-556 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Mass media.
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Video art -- United States.
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Video recordings -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Video art.
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| Author |
Fifer, Sally Jo.
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Hall, Doug, 1944-
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Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, Calif.)
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| LC no. |
91194777 |
| ISBN |
0893813893 (hard) |
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0893813907 (paperback) |
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