Edited by Kathy High and Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez
This title presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s.
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 tools to capture and manipulate images in revolutionary ways. …
by Kevin Atherton
FLOOD is delighted to announce the publication of Kevin Atherton’s Auto-Interview, extending a lifelong series of work where the artist has interviewed himself on video.
Auto-Interview is interesting on many levels, as a means of asking who is doing what in the business of encountering and interpreting an artwork, but also from an historical point of view – the interview provides an ideal opportunity to look back into the beginnings of key practices, …
by Julia Knight and Peter Thomas
With a Foreword by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
From Hollywood blockbusters to artists’ film and video, distributors play a vitally important role in getting films in front of audiences. As the link between production and exhibition, their acquisition policies, promotional practices, and level of resources determine what is available, and so help shape the very nature of our film culture. Reaching Audiences is centrally concerned with the distribution practices that have been developed to counter Hollywood’s traditional dominance of the marketplace, …
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David Curtis, Al Rees, Duncan White and Steven Ball (eds)
Expanded Cinema includes some of the most innovative and challenging artworks of modern times. Experimental film, multi-screen projections, artists’ video and live performance inside and outside the gallery space, all explore cinema beyond the single screen.
Leading scholars from Europe and North America trace the field from its origins in early abstract film right up to the digital age. Insightful essays explore post-war happenings and live events in Europe and the US, …
In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in 2004, 1996, 1999 and 1997 respectively) for work made on video. This fin-de-sicle explosion of activity represents the culmination of a long history of work by less well-known artists and experimental film-makers.
Ever since the invention of film in the 1890s, …
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For artists working with moving image in the late twentieth century, the past forty years… more>
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ISBN: 0 86196 664 3 (Paperback)
John Libbey Publishing, Box 276, Eastleigh SO50 5YS, UK e-mail: here; web site: http://www.johnlibbey.com
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Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, …
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ISBN: 1845202198
Published November 2006 by Berg, Oxford
More Information here. …
Continue reading “A History of Video Art – by Chris Meigh-Andrews”
“The past three decades have seen the rapid and vibrant growth of video art in Britain, but there has been little detailed analysis or critical recognition of this work. This book attempts to redress this imbalance by bringing together a collection of essays that discuss various aspects of British video art within a range of frameworkshistorical, theoretical, critical, and chronological. The essays deal with topics such as television interventions, video installation, feminist video work, video art criticism, …
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Exhibition catalogue edited by Catherine Elwes and Chris Meigh-Andrews
Available at Tate Modern and FACT Liverpool bookshops, LUX London and through EDAU, contact: Aneta Krzemien
Published by EDAU, Preston, 2006, ISBN: 1 901922 59 6. Price £10 …
Continue reading “Analogue: Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88)”
Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked often unknown. Video Art, a Guided Tour is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history. Elwes, herself a practicing artist and pioneer of early video, traces the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the ’60s and ’70s to today’s digital technology, from early experiments in ‘real time’ …
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