Video art : a guided tour Foreword Shirin Neshat Introduction : from the margins to the mainstream The modernist inheritance : tampering with the technology and other interferences Disrupting the content : feminism Masculinities : class gay and racial equality Language : its deconstruction and the UK scene Television spoofs and scratch : parody and other forms of sincere flattery Video art on television Video sculpture The 1990s and the new millennium Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked often unknown. This text is a guide to video art and its history tracing the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the 60s and 70s to todays digital technology Introduction: from the margins to the mainstream The modernist inheritance: tampering with the technology and other interferences Disrupting the content: feminism Masculinities: class gay and racial equality Language: its deconstruction and the UK scene Television spoofs and scratch: parody and other form of sincere flattery Video art on television Video sculpture The 1990s and the new millennium