Video : the reflexive medium / Yvonne Spielmann ; translated from the original German, with a slightly expanded introduction for the English edition by Anja Welle and Stan Jones.

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
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Series:Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Audiovisual Medium
  • 1. Video, a Technology, a Medium
  • Media-theoretical Considerations
  • The Visualization Debate
  • Preconditions of the Technology and the Apparatus
  • Matrix Phenomena
  • 2. The Reflexive Medium
  • Experimental Phase
  • Guerilla Television
  • Artistic Video
  • Excursus on the Relationship of Film, Video, and Computer
  • Experimental Video
  • Video Cultures
  • 3. Video Aesthetics
  • Apparatus, Self-Reflexion, and Performance: Vito Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim
  • Picture, Reproduction, Media Images: Ulrike Rosenbach, Joan Jonas, and Valie Export
  • Video/TV: Nam June Paik and Dara Birnbaum
  • Video, Photo, and Film: Klaus vom Bruch and Peter Campus
  • Structural Video: Michael Langoth, Les Levine, Jean-Francois Guiton, Richard Serra, and Dieter Kiessling
  • Musicalization in Video: Robert Cahen
  • Layering and Condensing: Peter Callas
  • Video Scratching: Martin Arnold and Raphael Montanez Ortiz
  • Video Void: David Larcher
  • Micro/Macro Dimensions: Nan Hoover
  • Picture, Text, Voice, and Writing: Gary Hill
  • Video and Computers: Steina and Woody Vasulka
  • Video and Virtual Environment: Lynn Hershman
  • Video, Poetics, and Hypermedia: Bill Seaman
  • Video Installation: Eija-Lilsa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, and Gillian Wearing
  • Outlook: Complexity and Interactivity.