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The Autobiography of Video: The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

The Autobiography of Video: The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

Blom, Ina

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryFilm & Video ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 3956791894
ISBN13: 9783956791895
Publisher: Sternberg Pr
Published: Sep 2 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this innovative take on early video art, Ina Blom considers the widespread notion that analog video was endowed with lifelike memory and agency. Reversing standard accounts of artistic uses of video, she follows the reflexive unfolding of a technology that seemed to deploy artists and artistic frameworks in the creation of new technical and social realities. She documents, among other things, video's emergence through the framework of painting, its identification with biological life, its exploration of the outer limits of technical and mental time control, and its construction of new realms of labor and collaboration. Enlisting a distinctly media-archaeological approach, Blom's new book--her second from Sternberg Press--is a brilliant look at the relationship between video memory and social ontology.

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