Foreword / Sarah Moore Fillmore, Interim Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Jonathan Middleton, Executive Director, Art Metropole
Introduction. Exclusive memory: a perceptual history of the future / David Diviney
The faraday cage
Understanding media was our first big mistake
Primary devices: artists' strategic use of video, computers and telecommunications networks
On shore
The appearance of voice
Artists' behaviour in the first decade
Rare species are common
Vernacular video
Text-image works (1973-2021)
Writing images: Tom Sherman texts and photographs / Peggy Gale
Tom Sherman: naturalism through video
increasing the depth of field / Caroline Seck Langill
Chronology.