Part Five: Television As A Creative Medium
Youngblood describes the videosphere, in which computers and televisions are extensions to man's central nervous system. He is optimistic about technological advances and predicts TV-on-demand by 1978 (pp260–264). He does acknowledge, however, that data retrieval is more complicated than data recording. The various processes involved in video synthesicing are described: de-beaming, keying, chroma-keying, feedback, mixing, switching and editing (p265-280). The work of Loren Sears is neuroeasthetic because it treats television as an extension of the central nervous system (pp291–295). The curator James Newman moved from a traditional gallery to a conceptual gallery with his joint project with KQED-TV, commissioning television work from Terry Riley, Yvonne Rainer, Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, The Living Theater, Robert Frank and Walter De Maria (pp292–293). Nam June Paik has worked creatively with television (pp302–308). Les Levine exploits the potential of closed-circuit television (pp337–344).
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