Mediascape, catalogue (1996)

Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in association with ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and held at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, June 14 – September 15, 1996.

Exhibiting artists: Ingo Guenther, Jenny Holzer, Toshio Iwai, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Bill Seaman, Jeffrey Shaw, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bill Viola.

With texts by Heinrich Klotz, Ursula Frohne, Oliver Seifert, and Annicka Blunck.

Publisher Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York; with ZKM, Karlsruhe, 1996
ISBN 0892071729
68 pages
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Andreas Treske: The Inner Life of Video Spheres. Theory for the YouTube Generation (2013)

Video is everywhere, like a space in which we move, an ocean we can dive into. But video is no longer the video we once knew. To address this techno-social shift, Andreas Treske sketches the outlines for a philosophical and practical understanding of online video, offering up a theory for the YouTube generation.

Video is examined up close and as a societal phenomenon. The images of a video constantly refer to other images, to the user and to the world outside. There is a ‘thickening of the image’. Videos also exist in relation to each other. On YouTube each video is accompanied by dozens of suggestions commercials and comments. Or consider TED-talks: every presentation refers to many others, all connected in a network and easily changing from one hype to the next.

Useful for comprehending this relational context is the philosophy of Peter Sloterdijk, who describes human society in terms of ‘spheres’. Online video can be understood as similar to bubble stuck to other bubbles, coming together to from foam within the connected sphere of the human environment.

Most prominent effects so far is video as a means of protest in the squares of the world, where revolution is filmed an uploaded in real time. Video isn’t a defined movie-object watched individually, but a movement of millions of video simultaneously, causing a cascade of reaction throughout the world.

Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, February 2013
Network Notebooks 06
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
ISBN 9789081857536
56 pages

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Slavko Kacunko: Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen: Ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst (2004) [German]

Die Publikation setzt sich mit der Möglichkeit einer fundierten und transdisziplinär legitimierten Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst auseinander. In ihrem Mittelpunkt steht eine historisch-geographische Vorstellung von ca. 1100 Medieninstallationen aus vergangenen vier Jahrzehnten. Die auf diesem Weg dokumentierte Arbeit von 650 KünstlerInnen ist das faktische Fundament der vorgelegten Studie. Ihr lexikalisch angelegter Ansatz baute auf einer systematischen Untersuchung des Materials auf und ihr erklärtes Ziel war die historische Präzision unter Einhaltung der Transparenz von Bezugsquellen.
Das Buch fungiert als unverzichtbare Bestandteile einer Einheit, die einen wesentlichen Baustein für die künftige Medienkunstgeschichte und -Theorie darstellt.

Publisher Logos Verlag, Berlin, 2004
ISBN 3832506004
1062 pages
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