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Scratch's Third Body: Video Talks Back to Television

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dc.creatorGoldsmith, Leo
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T11:50:26Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T11:50:26Z
dc.date.issued2015-12-30
dc.description.abstractEmerging in the UK in the 1980s, Scratch Video established a paradoxical union of mass-media critique, Left-wing politics, and music-video and advertising aesthetics with its use of moving-image appropriation in the medium of videotape. Enabled by innovative professional and consumer video technologies, artists like George Barber, The Gorilla Tapes, and Sandra Goldbacher and Kim Flitcroft deployed a style characterized by the rapid sampling and manipulation of dissociated images drawn from broadcast television. Inspired by the cut-up methods of William Burroughs and the audio sampling practiced by contemporary black American musicians, these artists developed strategies for intervening in the audiovisual archive of television and disseminating its images in new contexts: in galleries and nightclubs, and on home video. Reconceptualizing video’s ‘body,’ Scratch’s appropriation of televisual images of the human form imagined a new hybrid image of the post-industrial body, a ‘third body’ representing a new convergence of human and machine.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc097
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14135
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15101
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectscratch videoen
dc.subjectposthumanismen
dc.subjectinteractive spectatorshipen
dc.subjectBritish video arten
dc.subjectfound footageen
dc.subjectappropriationen
dc.subjectvideoprocessingen
dc.subjectTV sampling/remixingen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleScratch's Third Body: Video Talks Back to Televisionen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:09:10
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc097
local.source.epage126
local.source.issue8
local.source.spage114
local.source.volume4

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