Rewind Italia

Laura Leuzzi is an art historian and curator whose research focuses on the relationship between words and image in visual art and new media. She was a research fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, REWINDitalia, based out of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.Stephen Partridge is an artist, academic researcher, and pioneer of Early British video art. He is Professor of Media Art at the University of Dundee and co-editor (with Sean Cubitt) of Rewind: British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s.

"This book is a significant contribution, based on a long and profound research journey, and an impressive network of actors. The cataloguing of their memories and observations, allow the reader to completely re-think not only Italian video art from the period in consideration, but broader trends in European and American video. We must be very grateful for the fine antennae of Partridge, Leuzzi and colleagues who have put together such a compelling and engaging portrait of Italian video art practice."—Media-N

• Video recording in Bologna / Video-recording a Bologna, Renato BarilliMemory of video: Italy in the Seventies / Memoria del video: Italia anni Settanta, Silvia BordiniThe Video Library – The Classification/La Videoteca – La Classificazione, Luciano GiaccariCentro Video Arte of Palazzo dei Diamanti / Il Centro Video Arte di Palazzo dei Diamanti, Lola Bonoraart/tapes/22. Conversation with Maria Gloria Bicocchi/art/tapes/22. Conversazione con Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Cosetta G. Saba and Mirco InfantiInterview with Maria Gloria Bicocchi / Intervista a Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Stephen Partridge and Laura LeuzziThe Video Season / La stagione del video, Paolo CardazzoItalian Reaction to Video / La reazione italiana al video, Simonetta FaddaSymbols and Materials: Notes on Three Artists Working in Video in Venice in the 1970s / Simboli e materiali: alcune note su tre artisti che hanno lavorato col video a Venezia negli anni Settanta, Grahame WeinbrenSome notes on Luca Maria Patella's videotapes / Alcune note sui videotape di Luca Maria Patella, Laura LeuzziAuthorship, collaborations and international contaminations – Videoperformance in Italy in the '70s / Autorialità, collaborazioni e contaminazioni internazionali – La videoperformance in Italia negli anni Settanta, Cinzia CremonaGlitch Aesthetics and Impossible Flights / Estetica del 'glitch' e voli impossibili, Sean CubittVideo art in search of a new language / La videoarte alla ricerca di un nuovo linguaggio, Marco Maria GazzanoVideo's broken paths. A conversation with Paolo Rosa and Fabio Cirifino / I sentieri interrotti del video. Una conversazione con Paolo Rosa e Fabio Cirifino, Valentina ValentiniTIME, BODY, MEDIUM. Some notes on the continuity and discontinuity between artists' cinema and video in Italy in the Seventies / TEMPO, CORPO, MEDIUM. Alcune note sulla continuità e discontinuità tra cinema e video d'artista in Italia negli anni '70, Bruno Di MarinoParallel Time in selected Italian and UK Early Video Works / Tempi paralleli in una selezione di opere dei primi anni del video in Italia e Gran Bretagna, Adam LockhartPerceptions of a real event: Tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video documentation / Percezioni dell'evento reale: tensioni tra il visibile e l'invisibile nella performance e nella sua video documentazione, Emile ShemiltBetween Cinema and Poetronic (and Beyond): The Different Writings of Gianni Toti / Fra cinema e poetronica (e oltre): le scritture di Gianni Toti, Sandra LischiMemory of Video: Continuous Present. A Matter of Time – Ambits, Techniques and Methods – Classification – Materials – Current Issues and Possibilities / Memoria del video: presente continuo. Questione di tempo – Ambiti, tecniche e metoi – Classificazione – Materiali – Attualità e prospettive, Vittorio FagoneChronology of Video Art in Italy (1952–1992), Laura Leuzzi and Valentino Catricalà