Video Theories

Breaking new ground as the first transdisciplinary reader in this field, Video Theories is a resource that will form the basis for further research and teaching. While theories of video have not yet formed an academic discipline comparable to the more canonized theories of photography, film, and television, the reader offers a major step toward bridging this "video gap" in media theory, which is remarkable considering today's omnipresence of the medium through online video portals and social media.

Consisting of a selection of eighty-three annotated source texts and twelve chapter introductions written by the editors, this book considers fifty years of scholarly and artistic reflections on the topic, representing an intergenerational and international set of voices. This transdisciplinary reader offers a conceptual framework for diverging and contradictory viewpoints, following the continuous transformations of what video was, is, and will be.

Auteur

Dieter Daniels is Professor in Media Theory and Art History at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany.

Jan Thoben is Lecturer and Program Coordinator in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the University of the Arts Berlin, Germany.

Contenu

1. Theoretical Foundations/ Media Studies
   1.1 Media Philosophy
   Herbert Marshall McLuhan: t.b.c. (1960-64)
   Excerpted from:
   McLuhan, Herbert Marshall. 1964. Understanding Media, New York: McGraw-Hill.
   -- "Draft for Gutenberg Video", Typescript 1960, National Archives of Canada, previously unpublished.
   Vilém Flusser: t.b.c. (1977-91)
   Excerpted from:
   Flusser, Vilém. 1977. "Video." In Art sociologique Vidéo, edited by Fred Forest, 402-419. Paris: Union Générale
   d'Editions.
   -- 1985. Ins Universum der Technischen Bilder. Göttingen: Europ. Photography.
   -- 1991. "Die Geste des Video." In Gesten, 193-198. Düsseldorf: Bollmann.
   Jean-Paul Fargier t.b.c. (1986)
   Excerpted from:
   Fargier, Jean-Paul, ed. 1986. Les Cahiers du cinéma, Où va la vidéo?, Hors-série, No. 14.
   Jacques Lacan: Television (1987)
   Excerpted from:
   Lacan, Jacques. 1987. "Television.", In October, n° 40, Printemps.
   Jean Baudrillard: t.b.c. (1988)
   Excerpted from:
   Baudrillard, Jean. 1988. "Videowelt und fraktales Subjekt (1988)." In Philosophien der neuen Technologie, ed. by Ars Electronica, 113-31. Berlin: Merve.
   Jacques Derrida: Videor (1990)
   Excerpted from:
   Derrida, Jacques. 1990. "Videor." In Passages de l'image, edited by Raymond Bellour,Catherine David,Christine
   van Assche, 158-161. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou.
   Paul Virilio: The Vision Machine (1994)
   Excerpted from:
   Virilio, Paul. 1994. The Vision Machine, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
   Tetsuo Kogawa: Video: The Access Medium (1996)
   Excerpted from:
   Kogawa, Tetsuo. 1996. "Video: The Access Medium" In Resolutions. Contemporary Video Practices, edited by
   Michael Renov and Erika Suderberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   1.2 History and Theory of Technology
   Woody Vasulka: t.b.c. (1975/76, 1990)
   Excerpted from:
   Vasulka, Woody with Scott Nygren. 1975. "Didactic Video: Organizational Models of the Electronic Image." In
   Afterimage, vol. 3, no. 4, (October), 9-13.
   Vasulka, Woody. 2008. "Five Lectures (1976)." In Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973- 1990, edited by Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, 411- 419. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
   Vasulka, Woody. 1990. "The New Epistemic Space." In: Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, edited by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, 464-470. New York: Aperture.
   Siegfried Zielinski: t.b.c. (1986/92)
   Excerpted and translated from:
   Zielinski, Siegfried. 1986 (2010). Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders, Berlin: Polzer Media Group.
   Zielinski, Siegfried, ed. 1992. Video - Apparat/Medium, Kunst, Kultur. Ein internationaler Reader. Frankfurt am Main:Lang.
   Sean Cubitt: Video Media (1993)
   Excerpted from:
   Cubitt, Sean. 1993. Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Introductory Chapter: Video Media (pp.XI, XV-XVIII)
   Wolfgang Ernst: Is there a specific videocity? (2002)
   From: Internationales Bochumer Videofestival # 12. 2002. Programmheft, 106-114. Bochum: AstAKulturreferat der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
   Sherry Miller Hocking: The Grammar of Electronic Image Processing (2014)
   From: Sherry Miller Hocking. 2014. "The Grammar of Electronic Image Processing." In: The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, edited by Kathryn High, Sherry Miller Hocking, Mona Jimenez, Chicago: Intellect.
   1.3 Cultural Studies
   Roy Armes: On Video (1988)
   Excerpted from:
   Armes, Roy. 1988. On Video, New York: Routledge.
   Frederic Jameson: Surrealism Without the Unconscious (1991)
   Excerpted from:
   Jameson, Fredric. 1991. "Video. Surrealism Without the Unconscious." In Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 67-96. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
   Marita Sturken: The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions (1996)
   Excerpted from:
   Sturken, Marita. 1996. "The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions." In Resolutions.
   Contemporary video practices, edited by Michael Renov and Erika Suderberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   
   2. Intermediality/Comparative Media Studies:
      2.1 Video and TV
      Nam June Paik: Global Groove and Video Common Market (1970)
      From:
      Nam June Paik. 1997. Videa 'n' Videology 1959-1973, edited by Judson Rosebush. Syracuse, New York: Verson
      Museum of Art.
      Antoni Muntadas: Una subjectividad criteria (1980)
      Excerpted from:
      Eugeni Bonet, Joaquim Dols, Antoni Marcader, Antoni Muntadas. 1980. En torno al vídeo, 241-272.
      Barcelona: Gustavo Gili.
      Dara Birnbaum: Talking Back to the Media (1985)
      From:
      Birnbaum, Dara. 1985. Talking Back to the Media, 46-49. Amsterdam: Stichting.
      2.2 Video and Film
      Hollis Frampton: The Withering Away of the State of the Art (1977)
      Excerpted from:
      Davis, Douglas, Allison Simmons, Fred Barzyk. 1977. Open Circuits: an international conference on the future of television, 24-37. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
      Jean-Luc Godard: Les années video (1975 à 1980)
      Translated from:
      Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard, Édition établi par Alain Bergala. Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma-Éditions de L'Étoile.
      Gábor Bódy: Video and Film (1987)
      From:
      Bódy, Gábor. 1987. Videó alfa. Selyemgombolyító. Budapest.
      2.3 Video and Sound
      Nam June Paik: AFTERLUDE to the Exposition of EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION (1964)
      From:
      Nam June Paik. 1997. Videa 'n' Videology 1959-1973, edited by Judson Rosebush. Syracuse, New York: Verson
      Museum of Art.
      Bill Viola: The Sound of One Line Scanning (1986/90)
      Excerpted from:
      Viola, Bill. 1995. Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994, edited by Robert Violette.
      Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
      2.4 Music Clips
      E. Ann Kaplan: t.b.c. (1987)
      From:
      Kaplan, E. Ann. 1987. Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture. New York: Methuen.
      Diedrich Diederichsen: Kunstvideo versus Videoclip (2004)
      Excerpted and translated from:
      Diederichsen, Diedrich. 2004. "Kunstvideo versus Videoclip: Eine Musik, die ohne Bilder nicht leben kann." In Video - 25 Jahre Videoästhetik, exh. cat. NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, edited by Ulf Poschardt. Düsseldorf:Ostfildern.
      Carol Vernallis: tbc. (2013)
      Excerpted from:
      Vernallis, Carol. 2013. Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   3. Broadcast Yourself (Internet Video)
      ed. by Martha Buskirk (Montserrat College of Art, Cambridge, MA)
      Cory Arcangel and Dara Birnbaum: Do It 2 (2009)
      Excerpted from:
      Arcangel, Cory and Dara Birnbaum. 2009. "Do It 2." In Artforum (March).
      Hito Steyerl: In Defense of th…