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REWIND | British Artists’ Video in the 1970s and 1980s. (Edited Book (pp 224 130,00 words) Chapters from Sean Cubitt, Grahame Weinbren, Yvonne Spielmann, Malcolm Dickson, Stephen Partridge, Adam Lockhart, Jackie Hatfield and Emile Shemilt, with foreword by Brian Winston)

Derives from a four-year AHRC-funded research project into the history of an art form that has become the hallmark of contemporary art. Based on an archive of interviews, ephemera and archive copies of tapes and installations from the pioneering period of British video art, this anthology brings together some of the leading scholars in the field, to lay the groundwork for a history of the people, activities, institutions and interventions that made of video art the one true avant-garde in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

Rewind is a founding text for the history of British video art; draws on a unique archive of oral history and personal experience; and opens up the archive for contemporary artists, curators, media historians and archivists.

Introduction (pp 3-17. 5,400 words)

Cubitt & Partridge explain the research project, its scope, aims and objectives. An overview of the various chapters is provided and the case for the importance of video art in art history is put forward including the problematics of writing definitive histories or narratives.

Chapter: 'Artists' television: interruptions - interventions'. (pp. 75-90. 5,159 words)

Partridge's chapter Investigates the incidence and approach of video art upon broadcast TV in the UK and Europe from Schum (1968) to TV Interventions, Channel 4 1990.

Primary audience for the book lies in art history. Secondary areas include the field of media art history, archiving and conservation, and film and media studies. It has a market among the increasing number of gallery visitors, who have been introduced to the field of early video art by the Rewind project and connected projects, including the Future Histories of the Moving Image Network. There is international interest through the global Media Art History and Leonardo/ISAST groups and the parallel research projects underway in fifteen or more countries worldwide.