Video: The Reflexive Medium (Leonardo Book Series) By Yvonne Spielmann, Anja Welle, Stan Jones ISBN: 9780262195669 Published: 2007 Number of Pages: 384 Edition: Other Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: The MIT Press Description: 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.Yvonne Spielmann is Professor of Visual Media at Braunschweig University of Art. She lives in Berlin.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2007002793
   - LC control Number: 2007002793

National Bibliography Number
   - Source: bnb: GBA776896

National Bibliographic Agency Control Number
   - Source: Uk
   - Record control number: 014015621

International Standard Book Number: 0262195666: 0262195666 (hardcover : alk. paper): 9780262195669 (hardcover : alk. paper)
   - Terms of availability: $40.00

Language Code
   - Language code of text/sound track or separate title: eng
   - Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text: ger

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: N6494.V53
   - Item number: S6513 2008

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 778.59

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Spielmann, Yvonne
   - Personal name: Spielmann, Yvonne.

Uniform Title: Video, das Reflexive Medium.
   - Language of a work: English

Title Statement
   - Title: Video :
   - Remainder of title: the reflexive medium /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Yvonne Spielmann ; translated from the original German, with a slightly expanded introduction for the English edition by Anja Welle and Stan Jones
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Yvonne Spielmann ; translated from the original German, with a slightly expanded introduction for the English edition by Anja Welle and Stan Jones.

Edition Statement: English ed: English ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge, Mass. :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: MIT Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2008
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2008.

Physical Description
   - Extent: viii, 371 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 24 cm
   - Dimensions: 24 cm.

Series Statement: Leonardo

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-349) and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-349) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: The audiovisual medium. pt. I. Video, a technology, a medium. Media-theoretical considerations ; The visualization debate ; Preconditions of the technology and the apparatus ; Matrix phenomena -- pt. II. The reflexive medium. Experimental phase ; Guerilla television ; Artistic video ; Excursus on the relationship of film, video and computer ; Experimental video ; Video cultures -- pt. III. Video aesthetics. Apparatus, self-reflection and performance : Vito Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim ; Picture, reproduction, media images : Ulrike Rosenbach, Joan Jonas and Valie Export ; Video/TV : Nam June Paik and Dara Birnbaum ; Video, photo and film : Klaus vom Bruch and Peter Campus ; Structural video : Michael Langoth, Les Levine, Jean-Fran├ºois Guiton, Richard Serra and Dieter Kiessling ; Musicalisation in video : Robert Cahen ; Layering and condensing : Peter Callas ; Video scratching : Martin Arnold and Raphael Monta├▒ez Ortiz ; Video void : David Larcher ; Micro/macro dimensions : Nan Hoover ; Picture, text, voice and writing : Gary Hill ; Video and computers : Steina and Woody Vasulka ; Video and virtual environment : Lynn Hershman ; Video, poetics and hypermedia : Bill Seaman ; Video installations : Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Gillian Wearing -- Outlook : complexity and Interactivity

Language Note: Translated from the German: Translated from the German.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Video art
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Video art.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Video recordings
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Video recordings.

Series Added Entry - Uniform Title
   - Uniform title: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)