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lets post some book recommendations having to do with video synthesis or otherwise
Video synth
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(apologies, this is a large and semi disorganized list that i copied from Etherpad via an old post on video circuits fb group)
VIDEO CIRCUITS BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Brown, Gere, Lambert, Mason, “White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980”, 2009. White Heat Cold Logic
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Connolly, Evans, “Cracking Ray Tubes: Reanimating Analog Video in a Digital Context”, 2014. https://www.academia.edu/.../Cracking_Ray_Tubes…
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Connolly, Evans, “Oscillographic TV Hacking”, year unknown. http://www.crackedraytube.com/textstutorials.html
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Cubitt, “The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels”, 2014. Book Details - MIT Press
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Experimental Television Center, “Bibliography”. Biblio | Video History Project - Experimental Television Center
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Experimental Television Center, “Tools”. Tools | Video History Project - Experimental Television Center
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Hertz, Parikka, “Zombie Media”, 2013. http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/.../2013/06/Zombie-media.pdf
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https://blogs.aalto.fi/mediainfrastructures/files/2019/10/6_HertzParikka_ZombieMedia.pdf
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High, Miller Hocking, Jimenz, “The Emergence of Video Processing Tools”, 2014. http://press.uchicago.edu/.../distributed/E/bo15981361.html
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Hocking, Brewster, Wright, “Raster Manipulation Unit: Operation and Construction”, 1980. http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/raster-manipulation…
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Hocking, Brewster, Wright, Bernagozzi, Jones, “Construction of a Raster Manipulation Unit - Revision by Jason Bernagozzi at Signal Culture”, 2016. http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/construction-raster…
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Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, 1979. https://www.amazon.com/Gödel-Escher.../dp/0465026567
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Jennings, Mondloch, “Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art”, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Video.../dp/0520282485
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Jones, “Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975”, 2011. Synthetics
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Kholeif, "Moving Image, 2015. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/moving-image
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Mason, “A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980”, 2008. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Art-Room.../dp/1899163891
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Parikka, “What is Media Archaeology?”, 2012. http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745650258
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Pellegrino, “The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light”, 1983.
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Rekveld, “The Analog Art”, year unknown. the analog art | light matters
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Rosen, “New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973”, 2011. https://mitpress.mit.edu/.../little-known-story-about…
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Schwartz, “The Computer Artist’s Handbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications”, 1992. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Artists.../dp/0393027953
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Shanken, “Systems”, 2015. Systems
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Smirnov, “Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound And Electronic Music In Early 20th Century Russia”, 2013. http://www.thewire.co.uk/.../sound-inz_experiments-in…
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Vasulka, “Eigenwelt der Apparate-welt: Pioneers of Electronic Art”, 1992. Eigenwelt
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Vasulka, Weibel, “Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973–1990”, 2008. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/buffalo-heads
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Weibel, Jansen, “Light Art from Artificial Light: Light as a Medium in 20th and 21st Century Art”, 2006. http://www.hatjecantz.de/light-art-from-artificial-light…
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Youngblood, “Expanded Cinema”, 1970. http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/book.pdf
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Rosen, Margit. 2011. A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973. https://www.amazon.com/Little-Known.../dp/0262515814/
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Hill, Helen. 2004. Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet, revised ed. New Orleans: Helen Hill.
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Ramey, Kathryn. 2015. Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine. London: Focal Press.
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Holzer, Derek. 2020. Vector Synthesis: a Media Archaeological Investigation into Sound-Modulated Light.
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McGovern, Tammy, ed. 2014. Signal Culture Cookbook. Owego, New York: Signal Culture.
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Bernagozzi, Jason, ed. 2019. Signal Culture Cookbook Vol 2. Owego, New York: Signal Culture.
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Friedrich Kittler: Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999 (2002–)
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Friedrich Kittler: Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999 (2002–) — Monoskop Log
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“Culture, Technology & Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century”, edited by Philip Hayward
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Culture, Technology & Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century - Google Books
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Biblio | Video History Project - Experimental Television Center
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White Heat Cold LogicBritish Computer Art 1960–1980
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A Computer in the Art Room Hardcover – January 1, 2008 by Catherine Mason
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“The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels” By Sean Cubitt
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Douglas Davis - Art and the Future - Pulsa
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Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art Paperback – September 17, 2015 by Gabrielle Jennings (Editor), Kate Mondloch (Foreword)
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The Computer Artist’s Handbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications 1st Edition by Lillian F. Schwartz (Author), Laurens R. Schwartz (Author)
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Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Artby John Whitney
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“Systems”, Edited by Edward A. Shanken, with Ian Farr
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“Synthetics; Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975”, by Stephen Jones
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Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound And Electronic Music In Early 20th Century Russia by Andrey Smirnov
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A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art
