Video Theories INTERNATIONAL TEXTS IN CRITICAL MEDIA AESTHETICS Vol. 14 Founding Editor: Francisco J. Ricardo Series Editors: Jörgen Schäfer Grant Taylor Editorial Board: Martha Buskirk, John Cayley, Tony Richards, Joseph Tabbi, Gloria Sutton, Gregory Zinman Volumes in the series: New Directions in Digital Poetry by C.T. Funkhouser Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory by Markku Eskelinen Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace by Martha Buskirk The Engagement Aesthetic: Experiencing New Media Art through Critique by Francisco J. Ricardo Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich 3D: History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image by Jens Schröter Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art by Doris Berger When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art by Grant D. Taylor The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature by Sandy Baldwin Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age by Jihoon Kim The Off-Modern by Svetlana Boym Witness to Phenomenon: Group Zero and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art by Joseph D. Ketner II Expanded Internet Art by Ceci Moss Video Theories A Transdisciplinary Reader Edited by Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2022 Volume Editor’s Part of the Work © Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben, 2022 Each chapter © of Contributors For legal purposes the Acknowledgments on p. xv constitute an extension of this copyright page. 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Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. | Series: International texts in critical media aesthetics ; vol. 14 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021040993 (print) | LCCN 2021040994 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501354090 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501354083 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501354106 (epub) | ISBN 9781501354113 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Video recordings. | Digital video. | Video art. Classification: LCC PN1992.935 .V537 2022 (print) | LCC PN1992.935 (ebook) | DDC 791.4301–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040993 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040994 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-5409-0 PB: 978-1-5013-5408-3 ePDF: 978-1-5013-5411-3 eBook: 978-1-5013-5410-6 Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed and bound in the United States of America To find out more about our authors and books visit www .bloomsbury .com and sign up for our newsletters. Contents List of Figures xii Acknowledgments xv Preface xvi Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben Section I Foundations 1 Formations | Exemplary Discourses 3 Introduction by Dieter Daniels Draft for Gutenberg Video (1960): Facsimile 21 Marshall McLuhan Biennale Seminar on Video, Venice 1977 25 Marshall McLuhan Videotape: Thinking about a Medium (1968) 28 Paul Ryan Gestures on Videotapes (1973) 32 Vilém Flusser Video (1973–1974) 33 Vilém Flusser 2 Medium Specificity and Hybridity: The Materiality of the Electronic Image 39 Introduction by Jan Thoben Video: From Technology to Medium (2006) 57 Yvonne Spielmann Video, Flows, and Real Time (1996) 64 Maurizio Lazzarato Is There a Specific Videocity? (2002) 73 Wolfgang Ernst vi Contents Video as Dispositif (1988) 79 Anne-Marie Duguet Between-the-Images (1990) 84 Raymond Bellour Video Intimus (2010) 89 Siegfried Zielinski Surrealism without the Unconscious (1991) 93 Fredric Jameson Video Media (1993) 99 Sean Cubitt Toward an Autobiography of Video (2016) 102 Ina Blom 3 Video and the Self: Closed Circuit | Feedback | Narcissism 108 Introduction by Peter Sachs Collopy (Guest Editor) Some Aspects of the Significance to Psychoanalysis of the Exposure of a Patient to the Televised Audiovisual Reproduction of His Activities (1969) 119 Lawrence S. Kubie Self-Processing (1970) 122 Paul Ryan Two Consciousness Projection(s) (1972) 126 Dan Graham Essay on Video, Architecture, and Television (1979) 128 Dan Graham Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism (1976) 130 Rosalind Krauss Video Art, the Imaginary and the Parole Vide (1976) 135 Stuart Marshall Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977) 138 Martha Rosler Narcissism, Feminism, and Video Art: Some Solutions to a Problem in Representation (1981) 140 Micki McGee Contents vii Discover European Video: For a Catalog of an Exhibition (1990) 144 Vilém Flusser Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits (2012) 146 Krista Geneviève Lynes Screen Births: Trans Vlogs as a Transformative Media for Self-Representation (2016) 148 Tobias Raun Section II Relations 4 Video | Film 155 Introduction by Marc Ries Filmgoing/Videogoing: Making Distinctions (1973) 166 Douglas Davis Video in the Work of Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews and Statements (1969–2001) 169 Jean-Luc Godard (Compiled and Introduced by Thomas Helbig) The Withering Away of the State of the Art (1974) 180 Hollis Frampton Video and Film (1987) 185 Gábor Bódy On Video (1988) 188 Roy Armes Video: The Access Medium (1996) 191 Tetsuo Kogawa Interface (1995) 194 Harun Farocki Penultimate Pictures (2018) 197 Marc Ries 5 Video | Television 203 Introduction by Dieter Daniels The Politics of Timeshifting (2011) 220 Dylan Mulvin viii Contents Global Groove and Video Common Market (1970) 225 Nam June Paik Television: Video’s Frightful Parent (1975) 228 David Antin Talking Back to the Media (1985) 236 Dara Birnbaum [Portable Video] (1995) 239 John Thornton Caldwell [The Videographic] (2002) 244 John Ellis 6 Video | Sound and Synthesis 247 Introduction by Jan Thoben The Sound of One Line Scanning (1986/1990) 261 Bill Viola Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television (1964): Facsimile 266 Nam June Paik Versatile Color TV Synthesizer (1969) 268 Nam June Paik Video-Synthesizer (1969): Fascimile 269 Nam June Paik Soundings (1979) 270 Gary Hill Light and Darkness in the Electronic Landscape (1978) 274 Barbara Buckner 7 Video | Performance and Theater 281 Introduction by Barbara Büscher (Guest Editor) Transmission (1998) 292 Joan Jonas Moving Target: General Intentions (1996) 299 Diller + Scofidio Studio Azzurro: Re-Inventing the Medium of Theater (2012) 302 Valentina Valentini x Contents 10 Communities | Amateurism | Ethnographies | Participation 392 Introduction by Dieter Daniels [Wedding Videos] (1993) 405 Sean Cubitt [Bootlegging Video] (2009) 408 Lucas Hilderbrand [Splatter Videos, Scene Selection, and the Video Store] (2014) 413 Tobias Haupts Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy (2004) 418 Brian Larkin The Other Within (1989) 425 Juan Downey Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video (1992) 429 Terence Turner Decolonizing the Technologies of Knowledge: Video and Indigenous Epistemology (2003) 434 Freya Schiwy 11 Surveillance | Exposure | Testimony | Forensics 439 Introduction by Dieter Daniels Photographesomenon: Video Surveillance as a Paradoxical Image-Making Machine (2005) 460 Winfried Pauleit CCTV: The Stealthy Emergence of a Fifth Utility? (2002) 464 Stephen Graham The Cultural Labor of Surveillance: Video Forensics, Computational Objectivity, and the Production of Visual Evidence (2013) 469 Kelly Gates Drone Warfare at the Threshold of Detectability (2015) 478 Eyal Weizman Webcams, or Democratizing Publicity (2006) 481 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun “The Woman in the Blue Bra”: Follow the Video (2015/2017) 486 Kathrin Peters