"Abstract Video charts a diverse range of perspectives and topics in the fields of art history and media studies. This collection of thoughtful articles by established figures and emerging voices demonstrates that the idea of abstraction is relevant not only to painting, where it is has been thoroughly explored, but also to video, where it has been largely ignored. Abstraction provides a new lens through which to regard the work of contemporary artists who work with moving images. This excellent book will be of interest to artists, curators, and scholars alike." --Mark Tribe, author of New Media Art "This anthology is very exciting and timely, the list of authors and topics impressive and broad. It is a great sign of the continuing vitality of abstract cinema in our own time." --A. L. Rees, author of A History of Experimental Film and Video "A deft and comprehensive critical anthology devoted to abstraction in the analog and digital realms. From origin stories to contemporary works, this volume collects some of the most diverse and theoretically rigorous writings on a woefully underexamined art form. Abstraction in the moving image (beyond film) finally has a collection of writings that grapples head-on with the engaging, innovative, and compelling use of abstraction in the video landscape and its intriguing intersection with contemporary visual culture." --Erika Suderburg, author of Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art