Video art

Artists, collectives, events

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Artists (cont.)

Peggy Ahwesh, Francis Alÿs, Atlas Group, John Baldessari, Yael Bartana, Lynda Benglis, Guy Ben Ner, Sadie Benning, Dara Birnbaum, Colin Campbell, Peter Campus, Aleesa Cohene, Phil Collins, Omer Fast, Fischli & Weiss, General Idea, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Halflifers, David Hall, Gary Hill, Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Michael Klier, Sharon Lockhart, Deirdre Logue, Paul McCarthy, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Robert Morris, Muntadas, Annabel Nicholson, Dennis Oppenheim, Charlemagne Palestine, Paper Tiger Television, Lis Rhodes, Christoph Schlingensief, John Smith, Lisa Steele, Surveillance Camera Players, Aldo Tambellini, Sam Taylor-Wood, Ryan Trecartin, Vasulkas, Hannah Wilke, Artur Żmijewski.

TV as a Creative Medium, 1969, PDF. Catalogue.

Radical Software magazine, 1970-74, Log, PDFs.

Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, 1970, Log, PDF.

Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium", 1985, Log, PDF.

David Dunn (ed.), Eigenwelt Der Apparatewelt: Pioneers of Electronic Art, 1992, Log.

Publications

Exhibitions/Catalogues

• TV as a Creative Medium, New York: Howard Wise Gallery, 1969, [8] pp. Commentary: Sturken (Afterimage 1984).
• The Video Show: Festival of Independent Video, London: Serpentine Gallery, 1975. Related documents. [1]
• New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967-1980, ed. John G. Hanhardt, New York: Whitney Museum, 1984, 8 pp.​ [2]
• Video and Language. Video as Language, 1986, [6] pp.
• Resolutions: A Critique of Video Art, ed. Patti Podesta, Los Angeles: LACE, 1986.
• Video Art: Expanded Forms, ed. John G. Hanhardt, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, 1988, [8] pp. Curator's essay in Leonardo (1990).
• TV ARTS TV: The Television Shot by Artists, ed. Valentina Valentini, Madrid: La Fábrica, and Barcelona: Arts Santa Mònica, 2010, 160 pp.

Symposia

• Transcript from The International Video Art Symposium, 5-7 March 1979, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, 1979, 69 pp.

Artists' writings

Magazines

• Radical Software magazine, 11 issues, 1970-74, Log, PDFs.
• Avalanche 9: "Video Performance", ed. Liza Bear, New York: Kineticism Press, May-Jun 1974, 29 pp. [3]

Books

• Dan Graham, Video-Architecture-Television: Writings on Video and Video Works 1970-1978, Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1979. Lead essay.
• Hollis Frampton, Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981, foreword Annette Michelson, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp.
• On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton, ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp.

Art history and theory

Books

• Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, intro. R. Buckminster Fuller, New York: Dutton, 1970, 432 pp.
  • Cine expandido, Buenos Aires: Eduntref, 2012, 456 pp. [4] (Spanish)
  • Expanded cinema, trans. Pier Luigi Capucci and Simonetta Fadda, Bologna: CLUEB, 2013, xvi+388 pp. (Italian)
• Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971. [5]
• Paul Ryan, Birth And Death And Cybernation: Cybernetics of the Sacred, New York: Gordon & Breach, 1973.
• Ira Schneider, Beryl Korot (eds.), Video Art: An Anthology, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Contributions from 70 video artists.
• Peggy Gale (ed.), Video by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1976. [6]
• Johanna Gill, Video: State of the Art, Rockefeller Foundation, 1976, 56 pp, HTML.
• Jonathan Price, Video Visions: A Medium Discovers Itself, New York: New American Library, 1977.
• Gregory Battcock (ed.), New Artists Video: A Critical Anthology, New York: E.P.Dutton, 1978, xxii+198 pp. [7]
• John Hanhardt (ed.), Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, and Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986, 296 pp, OL.
• Deidre Boyle, Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tapes, Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1986, xxii+160 pp.
• Lori Zippay (ed.), Artists' Video: An International Guide, New York: Cross River Press, 1991, 272 pp.
• Doug Hall, Sally Jo Fifer (eds.), Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, New York: Aperture Press, 1991.
• David Dunn (ed.), Eigenwelt Der Apparatewelt: Pioneers of Electronic Art, Santa Fe: The Vasulkas, 1992, 240 pp.
• Michael Renov, Erika Suderburg (eds.), Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• Deidre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video, eds. Nina Danino and Michael Mazière, London: Wallflower Press, 2003. [8]
• Michael Rush, Video Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2003; rev.ed., 2007. Introduction + Chapter 1, Chapter 2.
• Yvonne Speilmann, Video: das reflexive Medium, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005. (German)
  • Video: The Reflexive Medium, trans. Anja Welle and Stan Jones, MIT Press, 2007, 384 pp. TOC, Index, [9].
• Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video Art, Berg 2006; 2nd ed., Bloomsbury, 2014, 387 pp.
• Nancy Cain, Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder, Palm Springs: Event Horizon Press, 2011.
• Paul Hegarty, Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
• Helen Westgeest, Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• Malin Hedlin Hayden, Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations, Ashgate, 2015. [10]
• Gabrielle Jennings (ed.), Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art, forew. Kate Mondloch, University of California Press, 2015.
• Omar Kholeif (ed.), Moving Image, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015, 239 pp.

Journal issues

• Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium", ed. Sara Hornbacher, Fall 1985, 93 pp.
• Art Journal 65(3): "Forty Years of Video Art", ed. Yvonne Spielmann, Fall 2006.

Book chapters, Papers, Articles

• Douglas Davis, "The New Audience: Television and Videotape", in Davis, Art and the Future, New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 84-91.
• Rosalind Krauss, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism", October 1 (Spring 1976), pp 50-64.
• Paul Ryan, "A Genealogy of Video", Leonardo 21:1 (1988), pp 39-44.
• Kate Horsfield, "Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art", in Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews, 2006.
• Ege Berensel, "Video Art from ’Monitor-Sculpture‘ to ’Video-Sculpture", Goethe.de, 2012.

Bibliography and Chronology

• "Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History", c1983, 12 pp. With a bibliography and U.S. chronology.
• Barbara London, "Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983", Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium" (Autumn 1985), pp 249-262.

Dissertations

• James A. Nadeau, The Medium is the Medium: The Convergence of Video, Art and Television at WGBH (1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2006. [11]

More

• Publications on video at Monoskop Log
• Publications on video art at Monoskop Log
• Texts collected by Experimental TV Center

Resources

• The Early Video Project by Davidson Gigliotti.
• Experimental Television Center: Video History Project
• Video as Urban Condition
• Video Circuits, blog for and about electronic video artists.

See also

• Video activism, VJing
• Video in CEE (bibliography), Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia (2), Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania.