Essays about video and video art by Torben Soeborg

        The essays are written over a long span of years. They are reproduced here in their original form
        - although part of an essay today may be "outdated" or have been used in one of the other essays.
        Only the essays about video installations (Essay 3 and 5) have been revised and rewritten and
        are here published only in the new version as Essay 13.

1. "Video + kunst = videokunst?" (Video + art = video art?) [only in Danish]
         Sune Nordgreen (edit): Videokonst i Norden, Kalejdoskop, nr.3-4, Kristianstad,
        Sweden, 1983, p. 11-16

2. "Videokunst og kunstkritk ... tanker efter en paneldiskussion" [only in Danish]
        (Video Art and Art Criticism ... Thoughts after a Panel Discussion)
        u.p., Haslev, Denmark, 1983

3. "VIDEO + TID + RUM = VIDEO INSTALLATION" (Video + time + space = video installation)
        Torben Soeborg (edit): VIDEO monitor - Newsletter om nordisk videokunst,
        Nordisk Kulturfond, 1984

4. "Aspekter af videokunst" (Aspects of video art)
        FOOLS-85 FESTIVAL, Katalog, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985

5. "Video-installationer: ... like having your cake and eating it, too!" [only in Danish]
        VIDEO MARATHON II, NORTH-information, No. 161, Roskilde, Denmark,1988

6. "VIDEO & KUNST = et provisorium" (Video & art = a provisional measure) [only in Danish]
        Honningpumpen, No.1, 1989, Faggruppen af Kunstbibliotekarer, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1989

7. ""Mais je suis passager", I insist" [only in Danish]
        Susanne Neimann (edit): EN STØJ I ØJET. Film- og videoeksperimenter, Klim. Aarhus, 1989, p. 37-42

8. "Video er ogsaa kultur og kunst ... bl.a.: Om videokunstens   vilkaar" [only in Danish]
        (Video is also culture and art ... among other things: About the condition of video art)
        Carsten Frederiksen (edit): DEN HELLIGE SKRIFT. En bog om boeger og billedmedier,
        Danmarks Biblioteksforening, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1989, p. 163-170

9. "VAND, VIDEO OG POESI ... at undres med Fabrizio Plessi" [only in Danish]
        (Water, video and poetry - to wonder with Fabrizio Plessi)
        monitor, 24/92, Haslev, Denmark, 1992

10. "Videokunst - Between Department Store and Television - zwishen Schicksal
    und Anspruch (eller om at se TV og laese video)"
[only in Danish]
        (Video art - between department store and television - between destiny and
        demand (or about looking at TV and reading video))
        monitor, 32/94, Haslev, Denmark, 1994

11A. "Video Artists, video art ... and Television?" [only in English]
        A paper for the FIV 95 Festival, November 1995, Buenos Aires, Argentina

11. "Nuevos tendencias en media - eller gentagelser af tidligere trends" (New trends in media -
        or repetition of earlier trends)
[only in Danish]
        monitor, 38/96, Haslev, Denmark, 1996

12. "Videokunst-hjemmekunst" (Video art - "home art") [only in Danish]
        Kunstavisen, No. 2, 1998, Koege, Denmark, 1998

13. "VIDEO + TIME + SPACE = VIDEO INSTALLATION" [only in English]
         Published online, 1999

14. "Video- og mediakunst: Teknologi og tendenser"
        (Video and Media Art: Technology and trends)
[only in Danish]
       
monitor, 43/2000, Haslev, Denmark, 2000

15. "VIDEO\BILLEDE - ad overvejelserne i monitor 43/2000"
        (Video\Picture - with reference to the thoughts in monitor, 43/2000 [Essay 14])
[only in Danish]
       
monitor, 44/2000, Haslev, Denmark, 2000

16. Introduction to the Danish Video Art Selection at Medi@terra Festival
        Athens, Greece, Nov. 4, 2000 + monitor, 47/2000, Haslev, Denmark 2000
[only in English]

17. Thougts about interactivity, creativity, authorship, aesthetic theory and new media [only in English]
        monitor, 48/2000, Haslev, Denmark, 2000

18. "Videokunst: tendenser og teknologi"
        (Video Art: Trends and technology)
[only in Danish]
        Foredrag, KOMPONENT, Copenhagen, May 26, 2001

19. "Moscow Paper" [only in English]
        Paper delivered by Torben Soeborg at the MEDIA FORUM
        of the XXIII Moscow International film Festival,  Moscow Russia, June 23-27, 2001¨

20. SHIFT from Exhibition to Reflection: Some Personal Viewpoints on Art Installations [only in English]
        October 16, 2003

21. The Poetic Inspiration of my Video Art Works [only in English]
        November 1, 2003