Overview

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.  

Full Product Details

9783858813817

Table of Contents

Reviews

Unfortunately, there is no foolproof system for digitization, nor has the terminology for the identification and diagnosis of these errors been standardized. The Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video is the first publication to approach the latter in a systematic way. . . . While the descriptions are more than adequate, the authors have thoughtfully included real-life examples on an accompanying DVD. . . . The Compendium is most appropriate for media conservators and preservationists in the process of cataloging, assessing, or digitizing their video holdings. However, it is also an excellent resource for librarians, archivists, curators, and students interested in the technical background of analog media. -- ARLIS/NA (11/19/2014 12:00:00 AM)

Unfortunately, there is no foolproof system for digitization, nor has the terminology for the identification and diagnosis of these errors been standardized. The Compendium of Image Errors in Analogue Video is the first publication to approach the latter in a systematic way. . . . While the descriptions are more than adequate, the authors have thoughtfully included real-life examples on an accompanying DVD. . . . The Compendium is most appropriate for media conservators and preservationists in the process of cataloging, assessing, or digitizing their video holdings. However, it is also an excellent resource for librarians, archivists, curators, and students interested in the technical background of analog media. -- (11/19/2014)

Author Information

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.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available