Critical Writing Index

Video's Body, Analog and Digital

by Laura U. Marks

Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media, 2002, p. 147

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002

This article investigates the different manifestations of video in the face of the digital revolution. The article centres on the questions: How does analog video perceive the world and use its body to communicate? How does this perception and communication change in digital video? and How do our own perceiving bodies respond to each medium? These questions are addressed and a comparison and evaluation of the differences and similarities between analog and digital video is explored.

ITEM 2002.115 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Work – Kika Thorne

ASCII Alphabet – Dorion Berg

Locked Groove – Caspar Stracke

Afternoon (March 22, 1999) – Steve Reinke

Rapt and Happy – Emily Vey Duke

Rapt and Happy – Cooper Battersby

Forever Young – Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Je Changerais d'Avis – Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Nest of Tens – Miranda July

Boulevard of Broken Sync – Winston Xin

Déconstruction – Rémi Lacoste

Phosphorescence – Anthony Discenza

Triggers – Benton Bainbridge