Preface: Abstract video art / Gabrielle Jennings
Introduction: On the horizon / Gabrielle Jennings
Part 1: Transmission. Film image/electronic image : the construction of abstraction, 1960-1990 / John G. Hanhardt ; Joseph Kosuth's The second investigation in Vancouver (1969) : art on TV / John C. Welchman ; Abstract transmissions : other trajectories for feminist video / Siona Wilson ; Abstract video / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Part 2: Interference. Visual music's influence on contemporary abstraction / Cindy Keefer ; Getting messy : chance and glitch in contemporary video art / Gregory Zinman ; Delirious architectures : notes on Jeremy Blake, Liquid Crystal Palace, and digital materialism / Michael Connor and Johanna Gosse ; Abstract video : net.video.abstraction / Tilman Baumgärtel, Sarah Cook, Charlotte Frost, and Caitlin Jones ; Interactive abstractions : between embodied exploration and instrumental control "underneath your fingertips" / Katja Kwastek
Part 3: Reception. Real time, screen time / Lumi Tan ; The spreadability of video / Christine Ross ; Spectral projections : color, race, and abstraction in the moving image / Maria-Christina Villaseñor ; Go with the (unregulated) flow : fluidity, abjection, and abstraction / Trinie Dalton and Stanya Kahn ; Sine qua son : considering the sine wave tone in video art / Philip Brophy.