The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued

by Kathy High (Editor), Sherry Miller Hocking (Editor), Mona Jimenez (Editor)

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.

442 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2013

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview of the history of the last half-century in video art

[Mills College Library]

776.6 E533 2014