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THE IDEAS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF BOB KIGER & FRIENDS WHO REPRESENT THAT WE ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIEWS EXPRESSED.
"VIDEOGRAPHY"
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| This map of the battlespace of Gaul shows a region so large that even Rome's mightiest Emperor could not literally "see" it with his eyes. Caesar was referring to his "knowing" (situational awareness) that his strategy would result in conquest. Julius Caesar was a master of video-graphy! |  |
Owing to the fame of this quotation, it is difficult to understand how the Latin "video", would became largely archaic for nearly 2000 years.
Put in plain English, video disappeared from the lexicon (with rare exception) for nearly 2000 years until it was resurrected in English in the Twentieth Century as meaning "to see". It became a convenient classic term which early pioneers of television used to describe the picture, as opposed to the sound, of their television transmissions.
This limited use of "video" slipped back into the modern English, without phylogenetic scrutiny and it became imbedded into the world lexicon.
Who can forget the "Audio -Video Guys" who set up the projectors in our school classrooms? This limited definition of video was widely accepted when Bob Kiger grew up and when he designed the word VIDEOGRAPHY in 1972. It is mentioned prominently in the original VIDEOGRAPHY article. Since 1986 Kiger has been advocating a review of the word VIDEOGRAPHY to put it in it's proper context.
Joining VIDEO, "knowing", with the Greek word, GRAPHEIN, "writing", (which became the Greek terminal ending "-graphy") we propose, that whenever it is written, VIDEOGRAPHY means:
vid-e-o-graphy n. 1. the study of organic, electronic, or mechanical recording and playback of information. 2. the technology, process or art of producing information in physical, analog or digital form. [1972 < L vide (re) to know + -o -,- Gk. -graphia. to write] (revised 07/14/07)
WHY IS VIDEOGRAPHY IMPORTANT!
Understanding of the historic roots of VIDEOGRAPHY will provide common ground for all modern humans to use technology to enhance their personal and collective wisdom. A great example of this vision is shown in this current Cisco Systems TV commercial.
VIDEOGRAPHY incorporates the technologies that have developed since the word was created in 1972 and opens the door for new technologies including, but not limited to, "the production and distribution of bitmap and vector based assets".
VID has always been a birthright and privilege of "being". We describe it as "the lifestream of neural impulses" that separates organic beings from inorganic matter. In the purest sense, our VID is formed by personal witnessing of events and phenomena as we go about our lives.
VIDEOGRAPHY is more about communicating our ideas and images using the tools available to us at any given time in history. The record of our videography has always been passed along through culture and genetics.
VIDEOGRAPHY in our post modern society elegantly describes the flow of data through a myriad of distribution technologies into our brains. We output using technologies available at the time we need to communicate.
There is a tremendous amount of energy and resources being used in "The Age of Videography" to "Recover the Lost History of Our Ancestors". A reasonable overview of this process is Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade, NY Times Science editor.
As to the future . . . we note that a simple answer to the question "what does it all mean?" (the exact phrase used in the subtitle of the original 1972 videography article) was answered by Karl Fisch, a high school teacher in the Arapahoe system. (part of the global "sister schools" movement) in 2006.
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In 1972 and again in 2006 the same question was posed. "What Does It All Mean? As of 7/21/2007, his answer . . . "Shift Happens!". |
We agree and note that shift is happening. Here is a 1980 music video entitled "Remember the Future" produced entirely at Videography Studios by staff special effects geniuses Chuck Cirino and David Nichols.
While "Remember the Future" is catchy...we should not forget the past.