Dominick, Ken

Notes on Videotape and TV Bibliography

Kenneth Dominick examines videotape and television practice as processes that reshape inner and outer experience; he cites Paul Ryan in Radical Software (summer 1970) and frames videotape as feedback rather than mere transmission. He links the medium to Allegheny College and the Experimental Television Center's temporary presence in Meadville, noting that Allegheny will briefly gain television-producing capability. He argues for decentralization through portable recording-and-playback hardware and independent regional centers to counter network and cable control, and describes videotape's perceptual and affective effects.