Electronic Video Image Processing: Notes Toward a Definition

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  Situates video art from the late 1960s portable-recording era; over fifteen years artists extended performance, conceptual, narrative, documentary, formalist and experimental practices. Defines electronic image processing as working with video signal parameters (frequency, amplitude, phase) and electronic tools—oscillators, synthesizers, computers, monitors and printers—to manipulate imagery using keying, superimposition, digitization, preprogramming and real-time techniques. Addresses distribution and reception issues, distinguishing video from television and noting alternative technologies (cable, satellite, video disc, VCRs) and interactive systems that give viewer control, and raises questions of reproducibility, editions and the location of the art object.

• The Process of Image Processing Bibliography

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• Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Image Processing Systems Tools

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• Notes Toward a History of Image-Processed Video: Steina and Woody Vasulka Bibliography

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• Themes in Electronic Image Processing Chronology

  Themes in Electronic Image Processing was presented at The Kitchen in December 1981 and curated by Shalom Gorewitz; the exhibition featured image processing tools provided by Experimental Television Center and David Jones. Artists in the exhibition included Peer Bode; Ralph Hocking; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell; Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorenson and Dean Winkler; Reynold Weidenaar; Barbara SYkes; Barbara Buckner; Jo Ann Gillerman; Gillerman and Jim Whiteaker; Henry Baker and Jane Steuerwald; Pier Marton; Shalom Gorewitz; Doris Chase; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Gary Hill; Michael Scroggins; Neil Zusman; Maureen Nappi; Janice Tanaka; Marc Casey; Sara Hornbacher.

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