Illuminating Video : An Essential Guide to Video Art

Doug Hall is an artist who as been working in video and related media since 1970. His work has been shown at major museums in North America and Europe, and is included in public and private collections. He is chair of the department of performance/video at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has been a faculty member since 1980.

Sally Jo Fifer has a Bachelor of Arts in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in communication from Stanford University. She is Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition, a national arts/technology access and training center, helping artists produce programming ranging from video and installation art to performing-arts documentation.

Acknowledgments
Preface, David Bolt
Foreword, David A. Ross
Introduction: Complexities of an Art Form, Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer

Histories
Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment, Martha Rosler

A Brief History of American Documentary Video, Deirdre Boyle

Dé-collage/Collage: Notes Toward a Reexamination of the Origins of Video Art, John G. Hanhardt

Video Art: What's TV Got To Do With It?, Kathy Rae Huffman

And if the Right Hand did not know What the Left Hand is doing, Gary Hill

Paradox in the Evolution of an Art Form: Great Expectations and the Making of a History, Marita Sturken

Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture
Television, Furniture, and Sculpture: The Room with the American View, Vito Acconci

Performance, Video, and Trouble in the Home, Kathy O'Dell

Video Installation Art: The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between, Margaret Morse

Video in Relation to Architecture, Dan Graham

The Rio Experience: Video's New Architecture Meets Corporate Sponsorship, Dara Birnbaum

The Art of The Possible, Francesc Torres

Mobility, As American as . . . , Chip Lord

Aligning The Museum Reaction Piece, Howard Fried

Audience/Reception: Access/Control
The Feminism Factor: Video and its Relation to Feminism, Martha Gever

The Medium Is the Mess . . . age, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

This Is Not a Paradox, Judith Barry

f0The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow, Dee Dee Halleck

The Fantasy Beyond Control, Lynn Hershman

Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity, Ann-Sargent Wooster

Ethnicity, Politics, and Poetics: Latinos and Media Art, Coco Fusco

Behind the Image, Muntadas

Interventions of the Present: Three Interactive Videodiscs, 1981-90, Peter d'Agostino

Syntax and Genre
The Cultural Logic of Video, Maureen Turim

The Smell of Turpentine, Juan Downey

The Importance of Being Ernie: Taking a Close Look (and Listen), Bruce Ferguson

Untitled, Joan Jonas

Audience Culture and the Video Screen, Norman M. Klein

Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women's Video of the 1985, Christine Tamblyn

Telling Stories
Video Writing, Raymond Bellour

Appropriation of Contemporary Reality: An Anecdote, Tony Labat

Directions/Questions: Approaching a Future Mythology, Rita Myers

Light and Death, Mary Lucier

The New Epistemic Space, Woody Vasulka

Three Tapes by Steina, Steina

Video Black—The Mortality of the Image, Bill Viola

Phototropic, Tony Oursler

Notes
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Videography and Video Index
Picture Credits
Index