The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued: Volume 1
Chicago: Intellect Ltd, 2014
ISBN 978-1-84150-663-0
"The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 1970s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers, and artists trying to create new video tools to capture and manipulate images in fascinating and revolutionary ways. Volume One includes the sections 'Histories' and 'People and Networks' that look at the historic, aesthetic, and cultural context of custom-made video devices. The contributors include 'video pioneers' who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic, and technologists who continue to design, build, and hack media tools. This book also looks at contemporary tool makers and the relationship between these new tools and the past. Video and media production is a growing area of interest in art, and this collection will be an indispensable guide to its origins and its future." (Taken from back cover.)
Contents: Acknowledgments, by Kathy High, Sherry Miller Hocking, and Mona Jimenez; Preface, by Kathy High, Sherry Miller Hocking, and Mona Jimenez; Introduction, by Kathy High; Beginnings (With Artist Manifestos), by Kathy High; Mapping Video Art as Category, or an Archaeology of the Conceptualizations of Video, by Jeremy Culler; Impulses - Tools, by Christiane Paul and Jack Toolin; The Art-Style Computer-Processing System, 1974, by Tom Sherman; Machine Aesthetics are Always Modern, by Tom Sherman; Electronic Video Instruments and Public Sector Funding, by Mona Jimenez; TV Lab: Image-Making Tools, by Howard Weinberg; The New Television Workshop at WGBH, Boston, by John Minkowsky; The National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco, by John Minkowsky; The Experimental Television Center: Advancing Alternative Production Resources, Artist Collectives and Electronic Video-Imaging Systems, by Jeremy Culler; Interstitial Images: Histories; Introduction, by Sherry Miller Hocking; From Component Level: Interview with LoVid, by Michael Connor; Memory Series - Phosphography in CRT 5", Mexico, 2005, by Carolina Esparragoza; The Rhetoric of Soft Tools, by Marisa Olson; Jeremy Bailey and His 'Total Symbiotic Art System', Carolyn Tennant; De-commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the Open, by Timothy Murray; Virtuosity as Creative Freedom, by Michael Century; Distribution Religion, by Dan Sandin and Phil Morton; A Toy for a Toy, by Ralph Hocking; Woody Vasulka: Dialogue with the (Demons in the) Tool, by Lenka Dolanova with Woody Vasulka; A Demo Tape on How to Play Video on a Violin, by Jean Gagnon; Application to the Guggenheim Foundation, 1980, by Ralph Hocking; Thoughts on Collaboration: Art and Technology, by Sherry Miller Hocking; Interstitial Images: People and Networks; Index; Colour Plates.
ITEM 2014.075 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer – Nam June Paik
Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer – Shuya Abe
Resolution – Ralph Hocking
Light and Darkness in the Electronic Landscape: Some Aspects of the Video Image – Barbara Buckner
Beck Direct Video Synthesizer – Stephen Beck
Memory Series – Carolina Esparragoza
Cantaloup – Jeffrey Schier
Cantaloup – Woody Vasulka
Cantaloup – Steina Vasulka
Evolution – Woody Vasulka
Evolution – Steina Vasulka
Expanded Cinema – Gene Youngblood
Bruits – Jaques Attali
The Templeton Mixer – Lawrence Templeton
Present Continuous Past(s) – Dan Graham
99 Red Balloons: Be Careful Who Sees You When You Dream – Jenny Marketou
Artificial Changelings – Toni Dove
Very Nervous System – David Rokeby
Signwave Auto-Illustrator – Adrian Ward
Loops – Paul Kaiser
Loops – Sally Eshkar
TextArt – W. Bradford Paley
WebStalker – I/O/D
The Brotherhood – Woody Valsulka
Sandin Image Processor – Dan Sandin
Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer – Steve Rutt
Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer – Bill Etra
The Videola – Don Hallock
Coat of Embrace – LoVid
Freedom Confined – LoVid
Artifacts – Woody Vasulka
Voice Windows – Steina Vasulka
KnitPro – Cat Mazza
Electronic Video Synthesizer – Eric Siegel
Dual Colorizer – Eric Siegel
Violin Power – Steina Vasulka
What is Freedom? – Hannah Arendt
CTHEORY Multimedia – Arthur Kroker
CTHEORY Multimedia – Marilouise Kroker
CTHEORY Multimedia – Timothy Murray
The File Room – Antoni Muntadas
One Year Performance – MTAA
Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive – Kristin Lucas
Hello World – Cory Arcangel
The Yes Men Fix the World – The Yes Men
Video Paint 1.0 – Jeremy Bailey
Video Paint 2.0 – Jeremy Bailey
Video Paint 3.0 – Jeremy Bailey
Transborder Immigrant Tool: Mexico/US Border Disturbance Art Project – Electronic Disturbance Theatre
Les Immatériaux – Jean-François Lyotard
Technesexual – Elle Mehrmand
Technesexual – Micha Cárdenas
Queer Technologies: Automating Perverse Possibilities – Zach Blas
Tom DeWitt
Tom Ditto
Phil Edelstein
George Brown
Steina Vasulka
Kyle Lapidus
Brice Howard
Peer Bode
Shalom Gorewitz
John Godfrey
Gary Hill
Ken Knowlton
Wolf Vostell
John Whitney
Irit Batsry
Fred Barzyk
Tali Hinkis
Alex Hahn