Acknowledgments
Preface
Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben
I Foundations
1 Formations | Exemplary Discourses
Introduction
Dieter Daniels
Draft for Gutenberg Video (1960). Facsimile
Marshall McLuhan
Biennale Seminar on Video, Venice 1977
Marshall McLuhan
Videotape: Thinking about a Medium (1968)
Paul Ryan
Gestures on Videotapes (1973)
Vilém Flusser
Video (1973-1974)
Vilém Flusser
2 Medium Specificity and Hybridity: The Materiality of the Electronic Image
Introduction
Jan Thoben
Video: From Technology to Medium (2006)
Yvonne Spielmann
Surrealism without the Unconscious (1991)
Fredric Jameson
Between-the-Images (1990)
Raymond Bellour
Video as Dispositif (1988)
Anne-Marie Duguet
Video Media (1993)
Sean Cubitt
Is There a Specific Videocity? (2002)
Wolfgang Ernst
Video Intimus (2010)
Siegfried Zielinski
Toward an Autobiography of Video (2016)
Ina Blom
Video, Flows, and Real Time (1996)
Maurizio Lazzarato
3 Video and the Self: Closed Circuit | Feedback | Narcissism
Introduction
Peter Sachs Collopy (guest editor)
Some Aspects of the Significance to Psychoanalysis of the Exposure of a Patient to the Televised Audiovisual Reproduction of His Activities (1969)
Lawrence S. Kubie
Self-Processing (1970)
Paul Ryan
Two Consciousness Projection(s) (1972)
Dan Graham
Essay on Video, Architecture, and Television (1979)
Dan Graham
Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism (1976)
Rosalind Krauss
Video Art, the Imaginary and the Parole Vide (1976)
Stuart Marshall
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977)
Martha Rosler
Narcissism, Feminism, and Video Art: Some Solutions to a Problem in Representation (1981)
Micki McGee
Discover European Video: For a Catalogue of an Exhibition (1990)
Vilém Flusser
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits (2012)
Krista Geneviève Lynes
Screen Births: Trans Vlogs as a Transformative Media for Self-Representation (2016)
Tobias Raun
II Relations
4 Video | Film
Introduction
Marc Ries
Filmgoing/Videogoing: Making Distinctions (1973)
Douglas Davis
Video in the Work of Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews and Statements (1969-2001)
Jean-Luc Godard (compiled and introduced by Thomas Helbig)
The Withering Away of the State of the Art (1977)
Hollis Frampton
Video and Film (1987)
Gábor Bódy
On Video (1988)
Roy Armes
Video: The Access Medium (1996)
Tetsuo Kogawa
Interface (1995)
Harun Farocki
Penultimate Pictures (2018)
Marc Ries
5 Video | Television
Introduction
Dieter Daniels
The Politics of Timeshifting (2011)
Dylan Mulvin
Global Groove and Video Common Market (1970)
Nam June Paik
Television: Video's Frightful Parent (1975)
David Antin
Talking Back to the Media (1985)
Dara Birnbaum
[Portable Video] (1995)
John Thornton Caldwell
[The Videographic] (2002)
John Ellis
6 Video | Sound and Synthesis
Introduction
Jan Thoben
The Sound of One Line Scanning (1986/1990)
Bill Viola
AFTERLUDE to the Exposition of EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION (1964). Facsimile
Nam June Paik
Versatile Color TV Synthesizer (1969)
Nam June Paik
Video-Synthesizer (1969). Facsimile
Nam June Paik
Soundings (1979)
Gary Hill
Light and Darkness in the Electronic Landscape (1978)
Barbara Buckner
7 Video | Performance and Theater
Introduction
Barbara Büscher (guest editor)
Transmission (1998)
Joan Jonas
Moving Target: General Intentions (1996)
Diller + Scofidio
Studio Azzurro: Re-Inventing the Medium of Theater (2012)
Valentina Valentini
Intermedial Interplay between Real-time Videos, Film, and Theatrical Scenes: Bert Neumann's Spaces for Frank Castorf's Dostoevsky project Erniedrigte und Beleidigte (2014)
Birgit Wiens
Multiplication. The Wooster Group (2007)
Nick Kaye
8 Video | Internet: Online Video and the Consumer as Producer
Introduction
Martha Buskirk (guest editor)
Do It 2 (2009)
Cory Arcangel and Dara Birnbaum
In Defense of the Poor Image (2009)
Hito Steyerl
Shiny Things So Bright (2017)
Andreas Treske
YouTube and the Syrian Revolution: On the Impact of Video Recording on Social Protests (2017)
Cécile Boëx
Nothing Is Unwatchable for All (2019)
Alexandra Juhasz
The Dangers of Ubiquitous Video (2020)
Siva Vaidhyanathan
III Repercussions
9 Sociality | Participation | Utopias
Introduction
Dieter Daniels
Videotopia (1972)
Alfred Willener, Guy Milliard, Alex Ganty
Guerrilla Television (1971)
Michael Shamberg
Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited (1985)
Deirdre Boyle
Women's Video (1981)
Anne-Marie Duguet
10 Communities | Amateurism | Ethnographies | Participation
Introduction
Dieter Daniels
[Wedding Videos] (1993)
Sean Cubitt
[Bootlegging Video] (2009)
Lucas Hilderbrand
[Splatter Videos, Scene Selection, and the Video Store] (2014)
Tobias Haupts
Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy (2004)
Brian Larkin
The Other Within (1989)
Juan Downey
Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video (1992)
Terence Turner
Decolonizing the Technologies of Knowledge: Video and Indigenous Epistemology (2003)
Freya Schiwy
11 Surveillance | Exposure | Testimony | Forensics
Introduction
Dieter Daniels
Photographesomenon: Video Surveillance as a Paradoxical Image-Making Machine (2005)
Winfried Pauleit
CCTV. The Stealthy Emergence of a Fifth Utility? (2002)
Stephen Graham
The Cultural Labor of Surveillance. Video Forensics, Computational Objectivity, and the Production of Visual Evidence (2013)
Kelly Gates
Drone Warfare at the Threshold of Detectability (2015)
Eyal Weizman
Webcams, or Democratizing Publicity (2006)
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
"The Woman in the Blue Bra": Follow the Video (2015/2017)
Kathrin Peters
IV Dialogues
12 Artistic Practice and Video Theory
Introduction
Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben
Video 1965: Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik. A Specific Moment of Unspecificity (2018/2021)
Dieter Daniels
Pop Goes the Videotape (1965)
Andy Warhol
Electronic Video Recorder (1965). Facsimile
Nam June Paik
Before the Cinematic Turn: Video Projection in the 1970s (2015)
Erika Balsom
Video as a Function of Reality (1974)
Peter Campus
Videor (1990)
Jacques Derrida
[Processual Video] (1980)
Gary Hill
Compulsive Categorizations: Gender and Heritage in Video Art (2015)
Malin Hedlin Hayden
Video as a Medium of Emancipation (1982)
Ulrike Rosenbach
Video in the Time of a Double, Political and Technological, Transition in the Former Eastern European Context (2009/2020)
Marina Grzinic
[Video Direction Theory] (1989)
Boris Yukhananov (edited and annotated by Andreas Schmiedecker)
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