Kathy High is associate professor in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an interdisciplinary artist working with science- and time-based arts.Sherry Miller Hocking is assistant director at the Experimental Television Center.Mona Jimenez is an associate professor and associate director in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University.

'Provides a new angle on the history of art and technology'

• VOLUME ONE:Section 1: HistoriesIntroduction – Kathy HighBeginnings (With Artist Manifestos) – Kathy HighMapping Video Art as Category, or an Archaeology of the Conceptualizations of Video – Jeremy CullerImpulses – Tools – Christiane Paul and Jack ToolinThe Art-Style Computer-Processing System, 1974 – Tom ShermanMachine Aesthetics Are Always Modern – Tom ShermanElectronic Video Instruments and Public Sector Funding – Mona JimenezTV Lab: Image-making Tools – Howard WeinbergThe New Television Workshop at WGBH, Boston – John MinkowskyThe National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco – John MinkowskyThe Experimental Television Center: Advancing Alternative Production Resources, Artist Collectives and Electronic Video-Imaging Systems – Jeremy CullerInterstitial Images: HistoriesSection 2: People and NetworksIntroduction – Sherry Miller HockingFrom Component Level: Interview With LoVid – Michael ConnorMemory Series – Phosphography in CRT 5", Mexico, 2005 – Carolina EsparragozaThe Rhetoric of Soft Tools – Marisa OlsonJeremy Bailey and His ‘Total Symbiotic Art System’ – Carolyn TennantDe-commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the Open – Timothy MurrayVirtuosity as Creative Freedom – Michael CenturyDistribution Religion – Dan Sandin and Phil MortonA Toy for a Toy – Ralph HockingWoody Vasulka: Dialogue With the (Demons in the) Tool – Lenka Dolanova with Woody VasulkaA Demo Tape on How to Play Video on a Violin – Jean GagnonApplication to the Guggenheim Foundation, 1980 – Ralph HockingThoughts on Collaboration: Art and Technology – Sherry Miller HockingInterstitial Images: People and NetworksVOLUME TWO:Section 3: ToolsIntroduction – Mona JimenezMods, Pods and Designs: Designing Tools and Systems – Kathy HighComputer-Based Video Synthesizer System, ETC – Donald McArthur, Walter Wright and Richard BrewsterDesign/Electronic Arts: The Buffalo Conference, March 10–13, 1977 – John MinkowskyInstruments, Apparel, Apparatus: An Essay of Definitions – Jean GagnonExpanding ‘Image-processed Video’ as Art: Subverting and Building Control Systems – Jeremy CullerThe Grammar of Electronic Image Processing – Sherry Miller HockingETC’s System – Hank RudolphOn Voltage Control: An Interview With Hank Rudolph – Kathy High and Mona Jimenez'Insofar as the rose can remember…' – Carolyn TennantAnalog to Digital: Artists Using Technology – Yvonne SpielmannAnalog Meets Digital In and Around the Experimental Television Center – Kathy High, Mona Jimenez and Dave JonesMulti-tracking Control Voltages: HARPO – Carl Geiger and Mona JimenezFinding the Tiny Dot: Designing Pantomation – Mona JimenezPreserving Machines – Mona JimenezA Catalog Record for the Raster Manipulation Unit – Mona JimenezCopying-It-Right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton – Jon CatesProposal for Low-cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape That Will Not Play Back, or Resurrection Bus (1980) – Ralph HockingInterstitial Images: Tools