CHURNER, Rachel; CLEMAN, Rebecca; MAXIN, Tyler (eds.)
The New Television. Video After Television

The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims.

This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings – featuring Vito Acconci, Ed Emshwiller, Vilém Flusser, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Glusberg, Barbara Lodnon, Stan Vanderbeek… – and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists – including Ed Halter, Kris Paulsen, Fred Turner, Lori Zippay, roundtables moderated by Ina Blom and Michelle Kuo featuring Howie Chen, Aria Dean, Josh Kline, Paul Pfeiffer. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches, and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives. [publishers’ note]

Published by no place press, 2024
Design by General Working Group
Art History / Facsimile & Reprints / Media Studies / Artists' Writings / Film & Video