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A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which features a wider range of artists from across the globe and explores developments in the genre of artists' video from the mid 1990s up to the present day. In addition, the new edition expands and updates the discussion of theoretical concepts and ideas which underpin contemporary artists' video, as well as touching upon topics like the origins of video art, early technology, avant-garde cinema, the Fluxus movement in experimental music, to race, gender, and socio-political activism....
