Rewind & Hit Play: Peter Sachs Collopy

Casio beats and editing assistance by Adam Foster! “The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Consciousness and Digitization in the History of Video“ In the late 1960s, video recorders became portable, leaving the television studio for the art gallery, the psychiatric hospital, and the streets. The technology of recording moving images on magnetic tape, previously of use only to broadcasters, became a tool for artistic expression, psychological experimentation, and political revolution. This is a network history of the experimental videographers who collaborated across those fields, sharing not only practical knowledge about the uses and maintenance of video equipment, but visions of its social significance, psychological effects, and utopian future. It is also a history of the resources videographers drew on, both material and intellectual, including the technology of electromagnetic recording, the practice of mediated self- observation, the metaphysics of collective consciousness, and t