"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 Two includes the section 'Tools' that describes the particular collaborations and technologies that created these custom-made video instruments. 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: Introduction, by Mona Jimenez; Mods, Pods and Designs: Designing Tools and Systems, by Kathy High; Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System, ETC, by Donald McArthur, Walter Wright, and Richard Brewster; Design/Electronic Arts: The Buffalo Conference, March 10-13, 1977, by John Minkowsky; Instruments, Apparel, Apparatus: An Essay of Definitions, by Jean Gagnon; Expanding 'Image-processed Video' as Art: Subverting and Building Control Systems, by Jeremy Culler; The Grammar of Electronic Image Processing, by Sherry Miller Hocking; ETC's System, by Hank Rudolph; On Voltage Control: An Interview with Hank Rudolph, by Kathy High and Mona Jimenez; "Insofar as the Rose Can Remember...", by Carolyn Tennant; Analog to Digital: Artists Using Technology, by Yvonne Spielmann; Analog Meets Digital In and Around the Experimental Television Center, by Kathy High, Mona Jimenez, and Dave Jones; Multi-tracking Control Voltages: HARPO, by Carl Geiger and Mona Jimenez; Finding the Tiny Dot: Designing Pantomation, by Mona Jimenez; Preserving Machines, by Mona Jimenez; A Catalog Record for the Raster Manipulation Unit, by Mona Jimenez; Copying-It-Right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton, by Jon Cates; Proposal for Low-cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape that Will Not Play Back, or Resurrection Bus (1980), by Ralph Hocking; Interstitial Images: Tools; Author Biographies; Index; Colour Plates.