The Emergence of Video Processing Tools Volumes 1 & 2 : Television Becoming Unglued

The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers and artists trying to create new tools to capture and manipulate images in revolutionary ways. The contributors include'video pioneers,'who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic, and technologists, who continue to design, build and hack media tools. The book also looks at contemporary toolmakers and the relationship between these new tools and the past. Video and media production is a growing area of interest in art and this collection will be an indispensable guide to its origins and its future. Front Cover 1 Volume 1 2 Half-title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10 PREFACE 12 SECTION 1: HISTORIES 28 Introduction 30 Beginnings (with Artist Manifestos) 36 Mapping Video Art as Category, or an Archaeology of the Conceptualizations of Video 62 Impulses – Tools 82 The Art-Style Computer-Processing System, 1974 112 Machine Aesthetics Are Always Modern 118 Electronic Video Instruments and Public Sector Funding 132 TV Lab: Image-making Tools 160 The New Television workshop at WGBH, Boston 174 The National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco 180 The Experimental Television Center: Advancing Alternative Production Resources, Artist Collectives and Electronic Video-Imaging Systems 188 Interstitial Images: Histories 196 SECTION 2: PEOPLE AND NETWORKS 204 Introduction 206 From Component Level: Interview with LoVid 210 Memory Series – Phosphography in CRT 5", Mexico, 2005 224 The Rhetoric of Soft Tools 228 Jeremy Bailey and His ‘Total Symbiotic Art System’ 242 De-commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the open 252 Virtuosity as Creative Freedom 278 Distribution Religion 292 A Toy for a Toy 298 woody Vasulka: Dialogue with the (Demons in the) Tool 302 A Demo Tape on How to Play Video on a Violin 338 Application to the Guggenheim Foundation, 1980 352 Thoughts on Collaboration: Art and Technology 358 Interstitial Images: People and Networks 366 INDEX 380 COLOR PLATES 402 Volume 2 410 Half-Title 410 Title 412 Copyright 413 Dedication 414 Contents 416 SECTION 3: TOOLS 418 Introduction 420 Mods, Pods and Designs: Designing Tools and Systems 426 Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System, ETC 452 Design/Electronic Arts: The Buffalo Conference, March 10–13, 1977 460 Instruments, Apparel, Apparatus: An Essay of Definitions 482 Expanding ‘Image-processed Video’ as Art: Subverting and Building Control Systems 498 The Grammar of Electronic Image Processing 506 ETC’s System 540 On Voltage Control: An Interview With Hank Rudolph 552 “Insofar as the rose can remember...” 560 Analog to Digital: Artists Using Technology 566 Analog Meets Digital In and Around the Experimental Television Center 596 Multi-tracking Control Voltages: HARPO 618 Finding the Tiny Dot: Designing Pantomation 626 Preserving Machines 634 A Catalog Record for the Raster Manipulation Unit 662 Copying-It-Right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton 666 Proposal for Low-cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape That Will Not Play Back, or Resurrection Bus (1980) 684 Interstitial Images: Tools 688 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 696 INDEX 706 COLOR PLATES 730 Back Cover 738 The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s.Split over two volumes, the contributors examinethe intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers, and artists trying to create new tools to capture and manipulate images in revolutionary ways. The contributors include video pioneers, who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic, and technologists, who continue to design, build, and hack media tools. The book also looks at contemporary toolmakers and the relationship between these new tools and the past. Video and media production is a growing area of interest in art and this collection will be an indispensable guide to its origins and its future. "The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 1970s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers, and artists trying to create new video tools to capture and manipulate images in fascinating and revolutionary ways. Volume Two includes the section 'Tools' that describes the particular collaborations and technologies that created these custom-made video instruments. The contributors include 'video pioneers' who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic, and technologists who continue to design, build, and hack media tools."--Page 4 of cover This book presents the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers and artists creating images in revolutionary ways.