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Video - The Reflexive Medium (Paperback)
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Video - The Reflexive Medium (Paperback)
Series: Leonardo
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An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between
analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the
theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts
of video seen in works by Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Steina
and Woody Vasulka, and others. Video is an electronic medium,
dependent on the transfer of electronic signals. Video signals are
in constant movement, circulating between camera and monitor. This
process of simultaneous production and reproduction makes video the
most reflexive of media, distinct from both photography and film
(in which the image or a sequence of images is central). Because it
is processual and not bound to recording and the appearance of a
"frame," video shares properties with the computer. In this book,
Yvonne Spielmann argues that video is not merely an intermediate
stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right.
Video has metamorphosed from technology to medium, with a set of
aesthetic languages that are specific to it, and current critical
debates on new media still need to recognize this. Spielmann
considers video as "transformation imagery," acknowledging the
centrality in video of the transitions between images-and the fact
that these transitions are explicitly reflected in new processes.
After situating video in a genealogical model that demonstrates
both its continuities and discontinuities with other media,
Spielmann considers three strands of video praxis-documentary,
experimental art, and experimental image-making (which is concerned
primarily with signal processing). She then discusses selected
works by such artists as Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Joan
Jonas, Nam June Paik, Peter Campus, Dara Birnbaum, Nan Hoover, Lynn
Hershman, Gary Hill, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bill Seaman, and
others. These works serve to demonstrate the spectrum of
possibilities in video as medium and point to connections with
other forms of media. Finally, Spielmann discusses the potential of
interactivity, complexity, and hybridization in the future of video
as a medium.
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