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<span class="pagetitle1"><span
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MEDIUM by
Yvonne Spielmann<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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Video is an electronic medium, dependent on the transfer of
electronic signals. Video signals are in constant movement, circulating
between
camera and monitor. This process of simultaneous production and
reproduction
makes video the most reflexive of media, distinct from both photography
and
film (in which the image or a sequence of images is central). Because
it is
processual and not bound to recording and the appearance of a
"frame," video shares properties with the computer. In this book,
Yvonne Spielmann argues that video is not merely an intermediate stage
between
analog and digital but a medium in its own right. Video has
metamorphosed from
technology to medium, with a set of aesthetic languages that are
specific to
it, and current critical debates on new media still need to recognize
this.<br>
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Spielmann considers video as "transformation imagery," acknowledging
the centrality in video of the transitions between images--and the fact
that
these transitions are explicitly reflected in new processes. After
situating
video in a genealogical model that demonstrates both its continuities
and
discontinuities with other media, Spielmann considers three strands of
video
praxis--documentary, experimental art, and experimental image-making
(which is
concerned primarily with signal processing). She then discusses
selected works
by such artists as Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Joan Jonas, Nam June
Paik,
Peter Campus, Dara Birnbaum, Nan Hoover, Lynn Hershman, Gary Hill,
Steina and
Woody Vasulka, Bill Seaman, and others. These works serve to
demonstrate the
spectrum of possibilities in video as medium and point to connections
with
other forms of media. Finally, Spielmann discusses the potential of
interactivity, complexity, and hybridization in the future of video as
a
medium.<br>
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Professor Yvonne Spielmann is Chair of New Media in the <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Media</st1:PlaceName>, Languages and
Music, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Paisley</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Glasgow</st1:place></st1:City>.
She
lives in <st1:City w:st="on">Glasgow</st1:City> and <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:State>. <br>
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Video: The Reflexive Medium <br>
MIT Press/Leonardo Book Series<br>
ISBN:0-262-19566-6<br>
452 pp., 136 illus.
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