Bill Viola ia a leading American artist working in video and sound installations, using innovative multi-media technologies to explore the phenomena of sense perception. This is a selection of his essays, notebook entries, interviews, drawings and descriptions of projects.

Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked - often unknown. 'Video Art, A Guided Tour' is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history.

Written by artists, art historians, and critics, this work examines the differences that feminist art practice and critical theory have made in late twentieth-century art, and the discourses surrounding it. It discusses the innovative work of figures, such as Louise Bourgeois, Lygia Clark, Mona Hatoum, and Carrie Mae Weems.

A study of video artist Pipilotti Rist. It features a discussion of Rist's work in relation to notions of Utopia; an examination of her innovation in video technology in the creation of a female image; an exploration of the video work, Absolutions ; Rist's descriptions of her dreams; and more.

Acconci is among the most important pioneers of conceptual and body art and has consistently investigated the boundary between the body and public space through different media. This title covers the wide range of Acconci's work, from poetry, performance and video to sculpture and architecture.

This volume discusses modes of film-making that diverge from and oppose the mainstream. It treats artists' film conceptually in order to explore key categories that connect different works and film-makers: from framing to digital media, installation to interactivity, and point of view to sound.