The Emergence of Video Processing Tools Volumes 1 & 2

VOLUME ONE:

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

VOLUME TWO:

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

'Provides a new angle on the history of art and technology'