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Book SynopsisThis text explores the state of video art and activism, practice and theory. It comprises original articles by a variety of video artists, filmmakers and critical theorists, covering topics such as video pedagogy, emerging technologies, video porn and lesbian representation.
Table of ContentsThe politics of video memory - electronic erasures and inscriptions, Marita Sturken; qualifying the quotidian - artist's video and the production of social space, Christine Tamblyn; the image of art in video, Maureen Turim; video - the access medium, Tetsuo Kogawa; looking through video - the psychology of video and film, John Belton; videor, Jacques Derrida; video confessions, Michael Renov; the electronic corpse - notes for an alternative language of history and amnesia, Erika Suderburg; Lynn Hershman - the subject of autobiography, David E. James; longing for real life, Rosanna Albertini; the images of the world, Raymond Bellour; dweller on the threshold, Bill Horrigan; operative assumptions, Gregg Bordowitz; tongues untied, Marlon Riggs; sex lies with videotape - abbreviated histories of Canadian video sex, Sara Diamond; talking heads, body politic - the plural self of Chicano experimental video, Chon Noriega; new visions/new Chinas - video - art documentation, and the Chinese modernity in question, Berenice Reynaud; taking aim - the video technology of cultural resistance, Monica Frota; video - the politics of culture and community, Ron Burnett; fetal tissue - reproductive rights and activist amateur video, Patricia R. Zimmermann; female transgression, Laura Kipnis; Julie Zando's primal scenes and lesbian representation, Judith Mayne; wedding video and its generation, James M. Moran; vision after television - technocultural convergence, hypermedia and the new media arts field, Michael Nash.
