Here is, by far, the best, boldest, and most thorough account to date of video art and activism, practice and theory. The long-awaited follow-up to a project conducted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), this volume comprises original articles by many of the most interesting video artists, filmmakers, and critical theorists writing today. Their subjects, from video pedagogy to emerging technologies, are many and varied and together constitute a clear and complete picture of the state of the medium.

Constructed like an inquiry into newly forming video practice, the collection at once interweaves and questions a series of relationships among politics, popular culture, artistic intervention, and social practices of the media. The often provocative essays, on topics ranging from video porn to Geraldo Rivera to lesbian representation to the politics of video memory, contribute significantly to a much-needed reconceptualization of the electronic medium.

Contributors: Rosanna Albertini, U of Pisa; Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; John Belton, Rutgers U; Gregg Bordowitz, Banff Center for the Arts; Ron Burnett, McGill U; Jacques Derrida, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Sara Diamond, Banff Center for the Arts; Monica Frota; Bill Horrigan, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts; David E. James, USC; Laura Kipnis, Northwestern U; Tetsuo Kogawa, Tokyo Keizai U; Judith Mayne, Ohio State U; James Moran, USC; Michael Nash, INSCAPE; Chon Noriega, UCLA; Bérénice Reynaud, California Institute of the Arts; Marlon Riggs; Marita Sturken, UC, San Diego; Christine Tamblyn, San Francisco State U; Maureen Turim, U of Florida; Patricia Zimmermann, Ithaca College.