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Vital signals early Japanese video art = ヴァイタル・シグナル : 日本の初期ビィデオアート.

Title
  • Vital signals [videorecording] : early Japanese video art = ヴァイタル・シグナル : 日本の初期ビィデオアート.
  • Vital signals [videorecording] : early Japanese video art = Vaitaru shigunaru : Nihon no shoki bideo āto.
Publication
New York, NY : Electronic Arts Intermix, [2010].

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Description
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
Vital Signals is a survey of the vibrant, interdisciplinary video art scene in Japan in the 1960s and '70s. Produced by EAI, the DVD anthology features sixteen works by fifteen Japanese artists, among them key figures such as Takahiko Iimura, Mako Idemitsu and Toshio Matsumoto. The Vital Signals DVD is organized in three parts: The Language of technology, Open television, and Body acts. In technical experiments, activist statements, and conceptual performances, Japanese artists of the 1960s and '70s transformed the intangible -- time, gesture, the electronic signal -- into rich art-making material.
Alternative Title
  • Camera, monitor, frame.
  • Computer movie no. 2.
  • Digest of video performance.
  • Early Japanese video art
  • Eat.
  • Hand no. 2.
  • Image modulator.
  • Image of image.
  • Kick the world.
  • Lapse of communication.
  • Magnetic scramble.
  • Metastasis.
  • Nihon no shoki bideo āto
  • Oh! My mother.
  • Ooi and environs.
  • Recognition construction.
  • Under a bridge.
  • Vaitaru shigunaru : Nihon no shoki bideo āto
  • What a woman made.
Subject
Video art > Japan
Genre/Form
  • DVD-Video discs
  • Documentary films.
Note
  • Booklet includes essays by Barbara London, Glenn Phillips, and Hirofumi Sakamoto that draw out the unique art historical and cultural contexts of early Japanese video art, and its relation to film and other visual art forms.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Language (note)
  • Booklet in English and Japanese.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. The language of technology. Computer movie no. 2 (1969, 8 min.) / CTG (Computer Technique Group) ; Image modulator (1969, 0.45 min.) ; Ooi and environs (1979, 1:30 min.) / Katsuhiro Yamaguchi ; Metastasis (1971, 8 min.) / Toshio Matsumoto ; Oh! My mother (1969, 14 min.) / Kohei Ando ; Camera, monitor, frame (1976, 17:15 min.) / Takahiko Iimura ; Hand no. 2 (1976, 7:50 min.) / Keigo Yamamoto -- II. Open television. Magnetic scramble (1968, 0.30 min.) / Toshio Matsumoto ; Under a bridge (1974, 13 min.) / Video Earth Tokyo -- III. Body acts. What a woman made (1973, 10:50 min.) / Mako Idemitsu ; Kick the world (1974, 13 min.) / Nobuhiro Kawanaka ; Eat (1972, 1:30 min.) / Katsuhiro Yamaguchi ; Digest of video performance, 1978-1983 (15:35 min.) / Norio Imai ; Lapse of communication (1972, revised 1980, 16 min.) / Hakudo Kobayahi ; Image of image - Seeing (1973, 12:30 min.) / Saburo Muraoka, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Uematsu ; The recognition construction - Hyojyutsu (Against application or mimesis) / Morihiro Wada (1975, 20 min.).
ISBN
9780615333267 (booklet)
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library