Critical Writing Index

The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic erasures and inscriptions

by Marita Sturken

Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, 1996, pp. 1-12

Minneapolis and St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 1996

Marita Sturken explores the philosophy and implications of storing personal and social memories on video throught the work of several video artists.

ITEM 1996.077 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Art of memory – Woody Vasulka

History and Memory – Rea Tajiri

Memories from the department of amnesia – Janice Tanaka

Who's going to pay for these donuts, anyway? – Janice Tanaka

Nomads at the 25 door – Jeanne Finley