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Early Video Art in EuropeA Factual History

An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
This book aims to examine the emergence of video art on a European scale. This process is plural and disparate, with multiple chronologies depending on the conditions of access to material—from the 1960s to the 1990s. The practices themselves are manifold, despite a certain number of common points. Sometimes video is closely linked to performance, the body and identities; at other times to the materiality of its medium, to the constituent features of electronic images and sounds, often using synthesizers and colourizers; at yet other times it develops with or against television.
Some national histories are known and have been the subject of in-depth research, while others remain untold or unknown. The aim of this book is to provide an initial overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
Edited by François Bovier and Grégoire Quenault.
Contributions by Horea Avram, Godart Bakkers, Branka Benčić, Sabine Breitwieser, François Bovier, Renate Buschmann, Jean-François Chougnet, Maeve Connolly, Elizabeth Cufley, Irini Demi, Lia Durante, Xavier García Bardón, Anders Härm, Sanneke Huisman, Eglė Juocevičiūtė, Slavko Kacunko, Erëmirë Krasniqi, Doris Krystof, Laura Leuzzi, Ségolène Liautaud, Geneviève Loup, Grégoire Quenault, José Carlos Mariátegui, Sergio Martín, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Edi Muka, Iliyana Nedkova, José Luis Panea, Lisa Parolo, Stephen Partridge, Miklós Peternák, Sylva Poláková, Cosetta Saba, Manthos Santorineos, Monica Sassatelli, Stéphanie Serra, Lorella Scacco, Christian Schoen, Elaine Shemilt, Francesco Spampinato, Dejan Sretenović, Māra Traumane, Teresa Wennberg, Helen Westgeest, Gaby Wijers, Erien Withouck, Tomasz Załuski.

Graphic design: Eurostandard.
 
2025 (publication expected by 2nd quarter)
English edition
 
ISBN : 978-2-37896-538-9
EAN : 9782378965389
 
forthcoming
 


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