Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel) Tech Team Scannable images: materialities of Post-Cinema after VideoĬontingent Feminist Tacticks for Working with MachinesĬapturing the Ephemeral and Contestational Peter Woodbridge + Gary Hall + Clare Birchall We hope that different tribes - from DIY hackercamps and medialabs, to unsatisfied academic visionaries, avantgarde-mesh-videographers and independent media collectives, even iTV and home-cinema addicted sofasurfers - will cherish this contribution to an ever more fragmented, ever more colorful spectrum of video-culture, consumption and appropriation… This is both a digital and analog object: manifested, in a scholarly gesture, as a ‘video book’. This is an edited collection of assembled and annotated video essays living in two instantiations: an online version – located on the web at, and an offline version – stored on a server inside a VHS (Video Home System) case. realizes the world through moving images and reassembles theory after video. Extending the formats of ‘theory’, it reflects a new situation in which world and video have grown together.
