The publication includes a collection of essays by 42 artists, critics, curators, and scholars. The essays are divided into five sections: Histories, Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture, Audience/Reception: Access/Control, Syntax and Genre, and Telling Stories.
Includes biographies of contributors. With notes and select bibliography.
Onsite
Sally Jo FIFER, 
English
video art,  installation,  digital art,  art history,  art criticism,  art theory
1990
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anthology
Introduction: Complexities of an Art Form - Doug HALL, 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 HANHARDT
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 YONEMOTO, Norman YONEMOTO
This is Not a Paradox - Judith BARRY
The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow - Dee Dee HALLECK
The Fantasy Beyond Control - Lynn HERSHMAN-LEESON
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 W. 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 1980s - Christine TAMBLYN
Telling Stories
Video Writing - Raymond BELLOUR
Directions/Questions: Approaching a Future Mythology - Rita MYERS
Light and Death - Mary LUCIER
The New Epistemic Space - Woody VASULKA
Three Tapes by Steina - Steina VASULKA
Video Black—The Mortality of the Image - Bill VIOLA
Phototropic - Tony OURSLER
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