Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video - Hardcover

Johannes Gfeller; Agathe Jarczyk; Joanna Phillips

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3858813818 ISBN 13: 9783858813817

Publisher: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2014

Synopsis

Analogue videotapes have over the last few decades become a part of many art collections all over the world. They are used as data carriers for both single-channel works and complex video installations. Yet video tapes as an artistic medium present art historians, curators, and registrars responsible for these art collections with major challenges with regard to preservation and restoration. People in charge of such collections, but also artists who have worked with analogue video, are often at loss when first confronted with the need to assess the condition of videocassettes and tapes in range of different formats, and identify their possible defects. The identification of the exact nature of any image error is crucial when an analogue tape is meant to be digitised, as analogue defects can often be removed or minimised before they get irreversibly merged with the actual image content during the digitisation process. The new 'Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video' is a guide book for curators as well as for private collectors and artists who wish to view and catalogue their analogue videotapes, and to assessing the tapes condition. It is also a reference book on a wide range of aspects of analogue video technology. The book describes and illustrates in stills and moving images the 28 most common image errors in analogue video. The included DVD presents video sequences demonstrating possible image errors, and each video still image in the book refers to a corresponding video sequence on the DVD. Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video also gives background information on the historic and technical aspects of analogue video recording. A separate chapter looks at the artistic dimension of image errors in detail, describing the many ways in which artists have experimented with image distortion and manipulation over the past few decades, and how they have used these techniques in their work. A glossary explains in full detail the technical terms used in the

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About the Author:

Johannes Gfeller is head of the master program for the conservation of new media and digital information at Stuttgart State Academy for Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany. Agathe Jarczyk is a free-lance curator and restorer in Bern, Switzerland. She specialises in modern materials and media, working for various Swiss and international museums and collections. Joanna Phillips is curator and restorer for contemporary art at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and an expert in conservation of video, audio, film and computer-based works of art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3858813818
• ISBN 13: 9783858813817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Illustrator: Edited By Swiss Institute For Art Research SIK-ISEA