The Autobiography of Video: The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

by Ina Blom

In this innovative take on early video art, Ina Blom considers the widespread notion that analog video was endowed with lifelike memory and agency. Reversing standard accounts of artistic uses of video, she follows the reflexive unfolding of a technology that seemed to deploy artists and artistic frameworks in the creation of new technical and social realities. She documents, among other things, video's emergence through the framework of painting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956791894
• ISBN13: 9783956791895
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"