One perspective on the reuse of material in a video installation.

Link to Every Shot Every Episode’ (McCoy & McCoy 2001)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2002.274a-e/

An excerpt on this work adapted from my PhD exegesis:

Keen, Seth. “Netvideo Nonvideo Newvideo Designing a Multilinear Nonnarrative Form for Interactive Documentary.” Doctorate. RMIT University Print.

In ‘Every Shot Every Episode’ (McCoy & McCoy 2001),…, a database is created by assembling TV programs onto DVDs in a video installation. Each shot in ‘Every Shot Every Episode’ is burnt onto a DVD as a collection of shots; 227 DVDs are stacked and catalogued on the wall beside a DVD player and screen. In ‘Every Shot Every Episode’, twenty episodes of ‘Starsky and Hutch’ (the 1970s television series) are transformed into, as Paul describes, ‘a form of enhanced cinema that focuses on the construction of single shots and the messages that they convey’ (2007, p.102).

…in a DVD titled ‘Every Laugh’ within this video installation, in which all the shots that contain laughing are grouped together (The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2006). The DVDs act like [categories]… Paul (2007) suggests that the functionality of a database is often used in visual art to explore associations that are not made visible in the original material. In ‘Every Shot Every Episode’, I would suggest that a categorical multilinear nonnarrative is created out of existing television programs using an indexing process and the storage functionality of multiple DVDs presented as a collection.

References:

Every Shot Every Episode 2001, video installation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York. Produced by J McCoy & K McCoy.

Paul, C 2007, ‘The Database as a system of cultural form: anatomies of cultural
narratives’, in V Vesna ed, Database aesthetics: art in the age of information
overflow, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp.95–109.