Illuminating Video : An Essential Guide to Video Art
by Edited and with an introduction by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer; Foreword by DavFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1991-06-01
Publisher(s): Aperture
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Summary
This book is an insightful evaluation of video art since its early beginnings, examining its theoretical, aesthetic and social implications.
Author Biography
Doug Hall is an artist who as been working in video and related media since 1970. His work has been shown at major museums in North America and Europe, and is included in public and private collections. He is chair of the department of performance/video at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has been a faculty member since 1980.
Sally Jo Fifer has a Bachelor of Arts in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in communication from Stanford University. She is Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition, a national arts/technology access and training center, helping artists produce programming ranging from video and installation art to performing-arts documentation.
Sally Jo Fifer has a Bachelor of Arts in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in communication from Stanford University. She is Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition, a national arts/technology access and training center, helping artists produce programming ranging from video and installation art to performing-arts documentation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface, David Bolt
Foreword, David A. Ross
Introduction: Complexities of an Art Form, Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer
Histories
Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment, Martha Rosler
A Brief History of American Documentary Video, Deirdre Boyle
Dé-collage/Collage: Notes Toward a Reexamination of the Origins of Video Art, John G. Hanhardt
Video Art: What's TV Got To Do With It?, Kathy Rae Huffman
And if the Right Hand did not know What the Left Hand is doing, Gary Hill
Paradox in the Evolution of an Art Form: Great Expectations and the Making of a History, Marita Sturken
Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture
Television, Furniture, and Sculpture: The Room with the American View, Vito Acconci
Performance, Video, and Trouble in the Home, Kathy O'Dell
Video Installation Art: The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between, Margaret Morse
Video in Relation to Architecture, Dan Graham
The Rio Experience: Video's New Architecture Meets Corporate Sponsorship, Dara Birnbaum
The Art of The Possible, Francesc Torres
Mobility, As American as . . . , Chip Lord
Aligning The Museum Reaction Piece, Howard Fried
Audience/Reception: Access/Control
The Feminism Factor: Video and its Relation to Feminism, Martha Gever
The Medium Is the Mess . . . age, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
This Is Not a Paradox, Judith Barry
f0The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow, Dee Dee Halleck
The Fantasy Beyond Control, Lynn Hershman
Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity, Ann-Sargent Wooster
Ethnicity, Politics, and Poetics: Latinos and Media Art, Coco Fusco
Behind the Image, Muntadas
Interventions of the Present: Three Interactive Videodiscs, 1981-90, Peter d'Agostino
Syntax and Genre
The Cultural Logic of Video, Maureen Turim
The Smell of Turpentine, Juan Downey
The Importance of Being Ernie: Taking a Close Look (and Listen), Bruce Ferguson
Untitled, Joan Jonas
Audience Culture and the Video Screen, Norman M. Klein
Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women's Video of the 1985, Christine Tamblyn
Telling Stories
Video Writing, Raymond Bellour
Appropriation of Contemporary Reality: An Anecdote, Tony Labat
Directions/Questions: Approaching a Future Mythology, Rita Myers
Light and Death, Mary Lucier
The New Epistemic Space, Woody Vasulka
Three Tapes by Steina, Steina
Video Black—The Mortality of the Image, Bill Viola
Phototropic, Tony Oursler
Notes
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Videography and Video Index
Picture Credits
Index
Preface, David Bolt
Foreword, David A. Ross
Introduction: Complexities of an Art Form, Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer
Histories
Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment, Martha Rosler
A Brief History of American Documentary Video, Deirdre Boyle
Dé-collage/Collage: Notes Toward a Reexamination of the Origins of Video Art, John G. Hanhardt
Video Art: What's TV Got To Do With It?, Kathy Rae Huffman
And if the Right Hand did not know What the Left Hand is doing, Gary Hill
Paradox in the Evolution of an Art Form: Great Expectations and the Making of a History, Marita Sturken
Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture
Television, Furniture, and Sculpture: The Room with the American View, Vito Acconci
Performance, Video, and Trouble in the Home, Kathy O'Dell
Video Installation Art: The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between, Margaret Morse
Video in Relation to Architecture, Dan Graham
The Rio Experience: Video's New Architecture Meets Corporate Sponsorship, Dara Birnbaum
The Art of The Possible, Francesc Torres
Mobility, As American as . . . , Chip Lord
Aligning The Museum Reaction Piece, Howard Fried
Audience/Reception: Access/Control
The Feminism Factor: Video and its Relation to Feminism, Martha Gever
The Medium Is the Mess . . . age, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
This Is Not a Paradox, Judith Barry
f0The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow, Dee Dee Halleck
The Fantasy Beyond Control, Lynn Hershman
Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity, Ann-Sargent Wooster
Ethnicity, Politics, and Poetics: Latinos and Media Art, Coco Fusco
Behind the Image, Muntadas
Interventions of the Present: Three Interactive Videodiscs, 1981-90, Peter d'Agostino
Syntax and Genre
The Cultural Logic of Video, Maureen Turim
The Smell of Turpentine, Juan Downey
The Importance of Being Ernie: Taking a Close Look (and Listen), Bruce Ferguson
Untitled, Joan Jonas
Audience Culture and the Video Screen, Norman M. Klein
Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women's Video of the 1985, Christine Tamblyn
Telling Stories
Video Writing, Raymond Bellour
Appropriation of Contemporary Reality: An Anecdote, Tony Labat
Directions/Questions: Approaching a Future Mythology, Rita Myers
Light and Death, Mary Lucier
The New Epistemic Space, Woody Vasulka
Three Tapes by Steina, Steina
Video Black—The Mortality of the Image, Bill Viola
Phototropic, Tony Oursler
Notes
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Videography and Video Index
Picture Credits
Index
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