Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video (Hardcover)

Johannes Gfeller

ISBN 10: 3858813818 / ISBN 13: 9783858813817

Published by Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, Zurich, 2013

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Hardcover. Over the past few decades, analogue videotapes have been commonly used as an artistic medium, from single-channel video works to complicated installation pieces. However, even though videotapes are now featured in collections all over the world, many conservators, curators, and other collection caretakers are at a loss when first confronted with the complexities of viewing, cataloguing, and preserving analogue videotapes.Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video sets out to provide guidelines for the condition assessment and preservation of analogue video. Along with an included DVD, the book illustrates in stills and moving images the twenty-eight most common image errors found on videotapes. But the authors have provided more than just an outline of the problems facing video conservators. They also give background information on the historical and technical aspects of analogue video recording, including a chapter on how artists have purposefully experimented with image distortion and manipulation in their own work. An additional glossary fully explains the technical terms used in the book. A unique reference work and handbook on image errors in analogue video and provides comprehensive guidance on viewing and cataloguing analogue video tapes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, Zurich
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858813818
• ISBN 13: 9783858813817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Over the past few decades, analogue videotapes have been commonly used as an artistic medium, from single-channel video works to complicated installation pieces. However, even though videotapes are now featured in collections all over the world, many conservators, curators, and other collection caretakers are at a loss when first confronted with the complexities of viewing, cataloguing, and preserving analogue videotapes.
Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video sets out to provide guidelines for the condition assessment and preservation of analogue video. Along with an included DVD, the book illustrates in stills and moving images the twenty-eight most common image errors found on videotapes. But the authors have provided more than just an outline of the problems facing video conservators. They also give background information on the historical and technical aspects of analogue video recording, including a chapter on how artists have purposefully experimented with image distortion and manipulation in their own work. An additional glossary fully explains the technical terms used in the book.  

About the Authors

Johannes Gfeller is head of the Masters Program for the Conservation of New Media and Digital Information at Stuttgart State Academy for Art and Design.  

Agathe Jarczyk is a freelance video conservator and lecturer at the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland. 

Joanna Phillips is associate conservator of contemporary art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.