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     FILE STATUS: mediated / uploaded / streamed / watched / compressed / replayed / paused / looped / counted / uncounted / platform / file / viewer / attention    
01_ADER_FALL_II.mp4
Bas Jan Ader
Fall II, Amsterdam
1970
body / bicycle / canal / camera / documentation
02_ADER_CRYING.mp4
Bas Jan Ader
I’m Too Sad to Tell You
1970–71
recorded affect / title / no disclosed cause
03_VIDEO_ART_HISTORY.mp4
Nam June Paik
Hommage à John Cage
Pipilotti Rist
Ever Is Over All, 1997
Bruce Nauman
Clown Torture/ “No No” excerpt, 1987
Martha Rosler
Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975
video art: television / monitor / performance / feedback / critique
Paik / Rist / Nauman / Rosler / signal / body / direct address
PAIK_TELEVISION_AS_MATERIAL.img
Nam June Paik manipulated television from Exposition of Music — Electronic Television
Nam June Paik
Exposition of Music — Electronic Television
Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963
Nam June Paik exhibition image from Exposition of Music — Electronic Television
television as altered signal
hardware as material
screen as instrument
Paik: television as material
rewired / distorted / played / made responsive
JONAS_VERTICAL_ROLL.mov
Joan Jonas
Vertical Roll, 1972
technical disturbance / body / monitor image / sound
04_VIDEO_FEEDBACK_LOOP
camera
↓
monitor
↓
viewer
↓
camera
Video feedback reference image
video as loop
signal / monitor / feedback / playback
05_ONLINE_MA_FRAME
Canvas / VLE
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video player
↓
browser
↓
lecture file
↓
student device / room
online MA = media ecology
platform / file / viewer / asynchronous time
06_WATER_ECOLOGICAL_LOSS.mp4
water / ecological loss
flood / altered landscape / mediated image / selected / compressed
07_AI_CRYING_LECTURER.mp4
AI-generated crying lecturer
likeness / distortion / viscous tears / constructed affect
08_COUNTER_PANEL.button
VIDEO FILE CONDITIONS export upload storage streaming playback device platform attention
20-MINUTE VIEWING approx. 12–18g CO₂e estimate scale marker performed interface counter
UNCOUNTED device manufacture platform labour software updates student attention interpretation ecological loss certainty not found
click panel to advance counter
10_STUDENT_METHOD.txt
For your own film, ask
What medium am I working through?
What history does that medium carry?
What kind of viewer does it produce?
What does it make present?
What does it hold at a distance?
What does it use up?
What does it leave uncounted?
REFERENCES.txt
References

Cunsolo, A. and Ellis, N.R. (2018) ‘Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss’, Nature Climate Change, 8, pp. 275–281.

Dumbadze, A. (2013) Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

International Energy Agency (2020) ‘The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines’. Available at: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-streaming-video-fact-checking-the-headlines (Accessed: 30 June 2026).

Kaizen, W. (2016) Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press.

Postman, N. (2000) ‘The humanism of media ecology’, Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association, 1, pp. 10–16.

Schneider, I. and Korot, B. (eds.) (1976) Video Art: An Anthology. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Spence, B. (1999) Bas Jan Ader. Irvine, CA: University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine.

Verwoert, J. (2006) Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous. London: Afterall Books.

Westgeest, H. (2015) Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

The Carbon Trust (2021) Carbon impact of video streaming. London: The Carbon Trust. Available at: https://www.carbontrust.com/our-work-and-impact/guides-reports-and-tools/carbon-impact-of-video-streaming (Accessed: 30 June 2026).

artist / performer as subject → Bas Jan Ader
environment as subject → water / ecological loss
constructed affect → AI-generated crying lecturer
media ecology → platform / file / viewer / attention