Index

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS   xi

PREFACE   xiii

SECTION 1: HISTORIES

Introduction   1
   Kathy High

Beginnings (With Artist Manifestos)   7
   Kathy High

Mapping Video Art as Category, or an Archaeology of the
Conceptualizations of Video   333
   Jeremy Culler

Impulses | Tools   53
   Christiane Paul and Jack Toolin

The Art-Style Computer-Processing System, 1974   83
   Tom Sherman

Machine Aesthetics Are Always Modern   89
   Tom Sherman

Electronic Video Instruments and Public Sector Funding   103
   Mona Jimenez

TV Lab: Image-making Tools   131
   Howard Weinberg

The New Television Workshop at WGBH, Boston   145
   John Minkowsky

The National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco   151
   John Minkowsky

The Experimental Television Center: Advancing Alternative Production
Resources, Artist Collectives and Electronic Video-Imaging Systems   159
   Jeremy Culler

Interstitial images: Histories   167

SECTION 2: PEOPLE AND NETWORKS

Introduction   177
   Sherry Milier Hocking

From Component Level: Interview With LoVid   181
   Michael Connor

Memory Series - Phosphography in CRT 5", Mexico, 2005   195
   Carolina Esparragoza

The Rhetoric of Soft Tools   199
   Marisa Olson

Jeremy Bailey and His ‘Total Symbiotic Art System’   213
   Carolyn Tennant

De-commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the Open   223
   Timothy Murray

Virtuosity as Creative Freedom   249
   Michael Century

Distribution Religion	   263
   Dan Sandin and Phil Morton

A Toy for a Toy   269
   Ralph Hocking

Woody vasulka: Dialogue With the (Demons in the) Tool   273
   Lenka Dolanova with Woody Vasulka

A Demo Tape on How to Play Video on a Violin   309
   Jean Gagnon

Application to the Guggenheim Foundation, 1980   323
   Ralph Hocking

Thoughts on Collaboration: Art and Technology   329
   Sherry Miller Hocking

interstitial images: People and Networks   337

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COLOR PLATES   Color Section: 1