''Long live the New Flesh!''

The introduction of portable video cameras in the late 1960s brought about a new field- independent video. Radical Software was a journal started in 1970 to cover aspects of the new medium - from production, distribution, community work and political activism to theoretical,aesthetic and economic issues.

Radical Software (1970-74)

http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/index.html

“Sooner or later, everything turns into television.” 

The first portable video system, the Sony Video Rover, was introduced in 1967. It was a two-piece set consisting of a black and white video camera and a separate, record only 1/2 inch recorder unit. 

The Video Guide: Ch. 12-The Video Portapak (Charles Bensiger,1981)

http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/vid_guide/12/12.html

 ''The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye.''

Video technique textbook from 1960.

Video tape recording (1960)

https://archive.org/details/videotaperecordi00bern

''It's like,the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible.''

''The most extensive use of dream imagery in popular culture occurs in the visual arts, and in the past five years it has become evident that music video (a semi-narrative hybrid of film and television) is the most dreamlike media product of all. The rampant depiction and implication of dreams and media fantasies in music video are often strongly encouraged by the lyrics and soundtrack, formal requirements''

Dreams and Mediation in Music Video (1986).

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED284312