Analog Video in the Age of Digital Data: A Case Study of Shigeko Kubota's "Social Practice"

Authors

Helena Shaskevich, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow
Lia Robinson, Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2021

Abstract

If Nam June Paik truly is the “father of video art,” as so many scholars claim, then Shigeko Kubota is in many ways its mother, performing the unacknowledged and undervalued labor of managing the “house” of video and taking care of its inhabitants. My digital art history project for Panorama, which performs a data-driven deep dive into Kubota’s networks, argues that Kubota’s legacy must be understood as a lived, “social practice” of care for video art and its communities.

Comments

This article was originally published in the special section "Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History" in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, available at https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.12824

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