The Emergence of Video Processing Tools
Television Becoming Unglued
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
- Contents

Volume 1
Acknowledgments
Preface
Section 1: Histories
Introduction
Kathy High
Beginnings (With Artist Manifestos)
Kathy High
Mapping Video Art as Category, or an Archaeology of the
Conceptualizations of Video
Jeremy Culler
Impulses – Tools
Christiane Paul and Jack Toolin
The Art-Style Computer-Processing System, 1974
Tom Sherman
Machine Aesthetics Are Always Modern
Tom Sherman
Electronic Video Instruments and Public Sector Funding
Mona Jimenez
TV Lab: Image-making Tools
Howard Weinberg
The New Television Workshop at WGBH, Boston
John Minkowsky
The National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco
John Minkowsky
The Experimental Television Center: Advancing Alternative Production
Resources, Artist Collectives and Electronic Video-Imaging Systems
Jeremy Culler
Interstitial Images: Histories
Section 2: People and Networks
Introduction
Sherry Miller Hocking
From Component Level: Interview With LoVid
Michael Connor
Memory Series – Phosphography in CRT 5", Mexico, 2005
Carolina Esparragoza
The Rhetoric of Soft Tools
Marisa Olson
Jeremy Bailey and His ‘Total Symbiotic Art System’
Carolyn Tennant
De-commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the Open
Timothy Murray
Virtuosity as Creative Freedom
Michael Century
Distribution Religion
Dan Sandin and Phil Morton
A Toy for a Toy
Ralph Hocking
Woody Vasulka: Dialogue With the (Demons in the) Tool
Lenka Dolanova with Woody Vasulka
A Demo Tape on How to Play Video on a Violin
Jean Gagnon
Application to the Guggenheim Foundation, 1980
Ralph Hocking
Thoughts on Collaboration: Art and Technology
Sherry Miller Hocking
Interstitial Images: People and Networks
Index
Color Plates
Volume 2
Section 3: Tools
Introduction
Mona Jimenez
Mods, Pods and Designs: Designing Tools and Systems
Kathy High
Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System, ETC
Donald McArthur, Walter Wright and Richard Brewster
Design/Electronic Arts: The Buffalo Conference, March 10–13, 1977
John Minkowsky
Instruments, Apparel, Apparatus: An Essay of Definitions
Jean Gagnon
Expanding ‘Image-processed Video’ as Art: Subverting and Building
Control Systems
Jeremy Culler
The Grammar of Electronic Image Processing
Sherry Miller Hocking
ETC’s System
Hank Rudolph
On Voltage Control: An Interview With Hank Rudolph
Kathy High and Mona Jimenez
“Insofar as the rose can remember…”
Carolyn Tennant
Analog to Digital: Artists Using Technology
Yvonne Spielmann
Analog Meets Digital In and Around the Experimental Television Center
Kathy High, Mona Jimenez and Dave Jones
Multi-tracking Control Voltages: HARPO
Carl Geiger and Mona Jimenez
Finding the Tiny Dot: Designing Pantomation
Mona Jimenez
Preserving Machines
Mona Jimenez
A Catalog Record for the Raster Manipulation Unit
Mona Jimenez
Copying-It-Right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton
Jon Cates
Proposal for Low-cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on
Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape That Will Not Play Back, or
Resurrection Bus (1980)
Ralph Hocking
Interstitial Images: Tools
Author Biographies
Index
Color Plates
Art: Design
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