Videos Tapes SP:
William Sabiston and Yasi Perera watch VHS tapes while dubbing them through 'fidelity'-processors, that is video signal processors which also process conventional notions of fidelity.

Respect: fixed processing for the duration of the vhs tapes, respecting the information on the original tapes, while having a sensory definition of what that information is: not a superficial definition of signal fidelity measured in traditional mathematic-technical-theoretic terms (s/n, linearity, phase smear, &c...), but fidelity defined as the passage of the sensory-emotional valences in the original.
Postulates a different viewership: given two copies of a tape, one with greater fidelity in a theoretically mediated technical sense, the other with some other fidelity, made 'by hand', we can't predict which would be selected as more similar to the original by a cat or dog, i.e. a friendly experiencer of different sensory apparatus, or more to the point a viewer of different cultural apparatus.

Another respect is present in that we often choose rare video materials to process, or fake that patina, reaching for the feeling of tapes.
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STILLS TO FOLLOW,
QUATERNION DOWNLOADS to follow those, once we have established, here, a beginning of "periodic table of the videos" in stills.
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