Technological Networks of Video as Materialized Theory

The research offers to consider a video not as a subject of aesthetics or semiotics, but as a technology in the wide field of technical relations. Materialistic view on video reveals essence of the former and has more connections with environment (or medium) than, for example, with the world of art. The work resides in the context of contemporary Science and Technology Studies and Media Theory, but also criticizes earlier, anthropocentric and subjectivist presentation of technology (Herder, Gehlen, Heidegger), which are reflected in some of the modern theories. The view on technology, embraced in this research, is the one closer to the theory of Simondon. The research puts forward a description of technological network of video as "nodes" of concentrations of matter, consistent with the medium. Technological network in itself represents a theory that has already been materialized. Technical equipment embodies all possible contents, thus technical equipment theory should be established not on the basis of limited amount of contents, but in the light of all possible contents, which becomes possible after hardware components are included into analysis. Besides, theory should take into account that equipment is limited by combination of its materials, while there may exist other combinations of materials that can form other types of equipment. The role of glitch in understanding video and equipment are considered in the research as well. Glitch explicitly shows non-semiotic essence of computer contents, and provides a perspective of equipment as a part of medium.