The new television : video after television / edited by Rachel Churner, Rebecca Cleman, and Tyler Maxin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Churner, Rachel, Editor.

Cleman, Rebecca, Editor, Contributor.

Maxin, Tyler, Editor, Contributor.

MIT Press, Distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open Circuits (1974 : New York).

Open Circuits.

Conference proceedings.

Video art--20th century--History.

Video art.

Art, Modern--20th century--History.

Art, Modern.

Museum objects.

Genre:

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

520 pages : illustrations, facsmiles ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press

Other Title:

Video after television

Place of Publication:

New York ; New Haven : no place press, 2024

Summary:

"The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today's artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference's utopian aims. This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches, and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes a facsimile of the book 'The new television: a public/private art', published in 1977.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Davis, Douglas, 1933-2014. The New television : a public/private art.

Container of: Simmons, Allison. The New television : a public/private art.

ISBN:

9781949484113

1949484114

OCLC:

1391214349