Image Technician

Spielmann describes the video artist as an “image technician”. 

How or is the content/concept of these videos connected to their process of their making? 

The image technicians are the group of video artists who explore their experiment videos concentrating on their conceptual, structural, and technical standpoint including the equipment they're using. I believe many great video artists can be grouped together under this definition. However, I doubt the point that every video artist is an image technician or should they. 

My reason is that the video artist as an image technician experiment their use of video media and the creation of digital signal are a big part of their art content; but it is not necessary for every video artist. There's no doubt that image technicians made great significance in the development of video history. A wide variety of electronic instruments  have been constructed by those engineers and visual artists over the past years. Their discoveries on operating television technologies created new and dynamic forms of digital imagery. From layers mixing, video feedback, colourisers, chroma key, analogue effects are invented to modify the visual world to better convey the ideas of video artists. It is true that those image technicians did great efforts in artistic and imaginative explorations to expand the visual dimension and the horizon of the human imagination. Just as the points from El Arte Del Video Video Synthesis, with the development of techniques, modern TV images do not need to be generated from a camera. It is a fundamental changing point for video art, meaning the coming of new tools, new effects, and new languages to break and transfer reality into art making. 

Video synthesis gives the visual artist the power to realise that which is subject to the creative faculties, allowing a freedom of expression and dynamism using form, shape, colour, texture and motion generated by electronic means. Then artists can change the appearance and behaviors of the imagery to work for their decided concepts. For those video artists working as image technicians, their technical capabilities fundamentally influenced their art content and then impacted dramatically on their art making processes.