FrontCover -- Volume 1 -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- SECTION 1: HISTORIES -- Introduction -- Beginnings (with Artist Manifestos) -- Mapping Video Art as Category, or an Archaeology of the Conceptualizations of Video -- Impulses - Tools -- The Art-Style Computer-Processing System, 1974 -- Machine Aesthetics Are Always Modern -- Electronic Video Instruments and Public Sector Funding -- TV Lab: Image-making Tools -- The New Television workshop at WGBH, Boston -- The National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco -- The Experimental Television Center: Advancing Alternative Production Resources, Artist Collectives and Electronic Video-Imaging Systems -- Interstitial Images: Histories -- SECTION 2: PEOPLE AND NETWORKS -- Introduction -- From Component Level: Interview with LoVid -- Memory Series - Phosphography in CRT 5", Mexico, 2005 -- The Rhetoric of Soft Tools -- Jeremy Bailey and His 'Total Symbiotic Art System' -- De-commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the open -- Virtuosity as Creative Freedom -- Distribution Religion -- A Toy for a Toy -- woody Vasulka: Dialogue with the (Demons in the) Tool -- A Demo Tape on How to Play Video on a Violin -- Application to the Guggenheim Foundation, 1980 -- Thoughts on Collaboration: Art and Technology -- Interstitial Images: People and Networks -- INDEX -- COLOR PLATES -- Volume 2 -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- SECTION 3: TOOLS -- Introduction -- Mods, Pods and Designs: Designing Tools and Systems -- Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System, ETC -- Design/Electronic Arts: The Buffalo Conference, March 10-13, 1977 -- Instruments, Apparel, Apparatus: An Essay of Definitions -- Expanding 'Image-processed Video' as Art: Subverting and Building Control Systems.

The Grammar of Electronic Image Processing -- ETC's System -- On Voltage Control: An Interview With Hank Rudolph -- "Insofar as the rose can remember…" -- Analog to Digital: Artists Using Technology -- Analog Meets Digital In and Around the Experimental Television Center -- Multi-tracking Control Voltages: HARPO -- Finding the Tiny Dot: Designing Pantomation -- Preserving Machines -- A Catalog Record for the Raster Manipulation Unit -- Copying-It-Right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton -- Proposal for Low-cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape That Will Not Play Back, or Resurrection Bus (1980) -- Interstitial Images: Tools -- AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES -- INDEX -- COLOR PLATES -- BackCover.