Product Description: Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images...read more

Product Description: Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video on the one hand, and installation art on the other? What is a projected image, and what is the history of projected-image art?  These questions and others are explored in this thoughtful collection of nine essays by leading international scholars of film and projected-image art...read more

Product Description: Joan Jonas approaches video as a drawing tool, a mirror, and a framing device. Since 1968, she has used video and performance to explore ways of seeing, the rhythms of ritual, and the archetypal authority of objects and gestures. With her influential 1976 work, I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) Jonas nimbly structures an elliptical narrative that unmistakably establishes her voice and visual lexicon...read more

Product Description: Borrowing from the title of Andy Warhol's 1965 double-screen film, "Outer and Inner Space", this book explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Three recent video installations - by Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Seshat and Jane and Louise Wilson - are placed in the context of 40 influential early works from the late 1960s to mid-1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)