Vernacular Video
by Tom Sherman
Video as a technology is forty years old. It is an offshoot of
television, developed in the 1930s and a technology that has
been in our homes for nearly sixty years. Television began as a
centralized, one-to-many broadcast medium. Television's centrality
was
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for your comments about my interrogation of the Paik Portapak myth.
I've had a few people write to point out Paik's earlier work with modified
or prepared televisions, in Wuppertal in 1963, stating they believed his
distortion of television pictures with magnets was the
Cinematic Video: film is dying while 'film' is being born...
by Tom Sherman
The word 'film' is undergoing a radical change in meaning. Film used to be
a photochemical medium--shot, processed, edited in celluloid, and
projected through 16mm and 35mm polyester prints. As Kodak says, film is
The Premature Birth of Video Art
by Tom Sherman
It is said that the late Nam June Paik was the George Washington of video
art. Paik, a Korean-born artist, educated in Japan and Germany, is given
credit for recording and exhibiting the very first work of video art in
New York, NY, in 1965. As
Back in the old days, during the cold war, governments were the main force
stimulating innovations in IT, information technology. Now IT development
occurs primarily in the private sector. As the cold war ended in the late
1980s, private firms once dependent on contracts with the military
Artificial Perception as Reality Check
Thinking About MIT's Tangible Bits
By Tom Sherman
[this text was commissioned for and previously published in Horizon Zero,
the webzine of the Banff Centre: http://www.horizonzero.ca]
Tangible Bits is an attempt to bridge the gap between cyberspace and
