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Resolutions : contemporary video practices

Resolutions provides, by far, the best, boldest, and most thorough account to date of video art and activism, practice, and theory. The long-awaited follow-up to a project conducted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), this volume presents original articles by many of the most interesting video artists, filmmakers, and critical theorists writing today. Their subjects, from video pedagogy to emerging technologies, are many and varied and together constitute a clear and complete picture of the state of the medium. Constructed like an inquiry into newly forming video practice, the collection at once interweaves and questions a series of relationships among politics, popular culture, artistic intervention, and social practices. The often provocative essays, on topics ranging from video porn to Geraldo Rivera to lesbian representation to the politics of video memory, contribute significantly to a much needed reconceptualization of the electronic medium
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn., ©1996
video recordings (physical artifacts)
xxiii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780816623273, 9780816623303, 0816623279, 0816623309
32509864
Introduction : resolving video / Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg
The 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 re-tied / 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 A. Noriega
New vision/new Chinas : video : art, documentation, and the Chinese modernity in question / Bèrénice 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 : technological convergence, hypermedia, and the news media arts field / Michael Nash