Reading Summary for Martin, pp. 6-20

-Video first considered art in 1960s
-Video translates audio-visual material into analogue or digital code, unlike film and television

• Vilem Flusser defines video as "dialogical memory"
• Jacques Derrida says video art must be considered in relation to conventional artistic language

-Decolage- created through an aggressive act (coined by Vostell)
-1960s saw a rise in televised art galleries (i.e. The Medium is the Medium)
-25fps overseas, 30fps in America
-PAL system creates images overseas from 576 lines, each built up line by line from two half images consisting of 288 lines each, and in America it is 540 lines, with 270 lines per half image
-1970s saw some artists using digital approach to electronic image editing
-1990s saw the recording of audio-visual material on magnetic tapes replaced by numerical storage in data sets
-1997 Sony and Canon release first digital cameras in America

• Digital compositing of pictures, leading to computer-generated images