Anne-Marie Duguet's 'Déjouer l'image' Gathers Pioneering Video Art Writings

The book 'Déjouer l'image' by Anne-Marie Duguet, published by Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, collects her critical texts from 1984 to 2000 on video and electronic imagery. Duguet was among the first French researchers to focus on video art in the early 1970s, when such practices were poorly recognized. She introduced Sony Portapak cameras to universities, which artists like Nam June Paik had already adopted. The volume includes definitive essays like 'Dispositifs' and analyses of works by Peter Campus, Bill Viola, Thierry Kuntzel, and Jean-Christophe Averty. A second section explores digital art through artists such as Jeffrey Shaw and concepts like interactivity, expanded cinema, and programming. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM featuring excerpts of the discussed works. Duguet also initiated the 'anarchive' DVD-ROM collection with Muntadas, aiming to preserve electronic art archives.