Preface / Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben -- Formations : exemplary discourses -- Medium specificity and hybridity : the materiality of the electronic image -- Video and the self : closed circuit : feedback : narcissism -- Video : film -- Video : television -- Video : sound and synthesis -- Video : performance and theater -- Video : internet : online video and the consumer as producer -- Sociality : participation : utopias -- Communities : amateurism : ethnographies : participation -- Surveillance : exposure : testimony : forensics -- Artistic practice and video theory.

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"Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the medium"

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