Mirror Machine: Video and Identity

Edited by Janine Marchessault

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This anthology examines the relation between identity politics and independent video practices in Canada. From different vantage points the contributors carve out a central problematic: video as a technology that has challenged and extended not only the parameters of modern art but the very possibility of cultural resistance in the age of global television. The essays explore video's representational vocation shaped both by institutional supports (National Film Board, Canada Council, cable, etc.,) and by community needs for agency and voice.

Janine Marchessault is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization at York University, Toronto. She is the director of the Visible City Project and an online archive at York University, which examines urban art cultures and citizenship in the context of globalization. She is a founding member of the Public Access Collective and the journal Public: Art/Culture/Ideas.

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Hardcover or Softcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in.
240 pp.
Published by YYZBOOKS and The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions (McGill University)
Toronto/Montreal, 1995.

ISBN 0-920397-13-1 / 978-0-920397-13-8