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.
