The VERBATIM HISTORY OF THE AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF ANALOGUE Video
Click the title above, or the names below, and you can access a series of video interviews on the subject of Analogue aesthetics and technologies with some discussion of the approach of the digital. We are interviewing a wide variety of people who were active in the exploration and development of the practice and theory of seminal technologies such as video and digital imaging, in an attempt to construct a picture of the beginnings of new media.
We are looking at the work of the earliest pioneers, such as John Hopkins (Hoppy), recipient of the first video portapak in the UK and Steina and Woody Vasulka inventors of many kinds of interventional technology in analogue video - and how the ideas of 1950's and '60's media theorists such McLuhan, Beer Carpenter, Williams, informed the early gestation of ideas that eventually came together to affect contemporary aesthetics and attitudes around social media.The province of this inquiry spreads widely from video art to 'happenings' in the 1960's, from community video to documentary through 60's to 80's, from interventions in early television to expanded cinema and latterly architectural projection in modern times.
Woody and Steina Vasulka - New Mexico
Robert Cahen and Chris Meigh-Andrews - France and UK
Lee Wells - New York
Grahame Weinbren - New York
Amanda Beech - Los Angeles
John Hopkins - London
Sean Cubitt 1 & 2 - London
Interviews by Chris Meigh-Andrews with early video artists
We are looking at the work of the earliest pioneers, such as John Hopkins (Hoppy), recipient of the first video portapak in the UK and Steina and Woody Vasulka inventors of many kinds of interventional technology in analogue video - and how the ideas of 1950's and '60's media theorists such McLuhan, Beer Carpenter, Williams, informed the early gestation of ideas that eventually came together to affect contemporary aesthetics and attitudes around social media.The province of this inquiry spreads widely from video art to 'happenings' in the 1960's, from community video to documentary through 60's to 80's, from interventions in early television to expanded cinema and latterly architectural projection in modern times.
Woody and Steina Vasulka - New Mexico
Robert Cahen and Chris Meigh-Andrews - France and UK
Lee Wells - New York
Grahame Weinbren - New York
Amanda Beech - Los Angeles
John Hopkins - London
Sean Cubitt 1 & 2 - London
Interviews by Chris Meigh-Andrews with early video artists
