Video: The Reflexive Medium

by Yvonne Spielmann

Book Overview

An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts of video seen in works by Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and others.

Video is an electronic medium, dependent on the transfer of electronic signals. Video signals are in constant movement, circulating between camera and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515172
• ISBN13: 9780262515177
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher