About the Techspressionism Video Archive
The Techspressionism Video Archive is a searchable, citable archive of the recordings published on the Techspressionism YouTube channel. It holds 149 recordings, 220 hours in all, made between 2020 and 2026: 104 Techspressionist salons, 30 artist interviews, 6 roundtables and 9 presentations. It is a research tool for scholars, historians, students and anyone interested in Techspressionism, the art and technology community described at techspressionism.com. As of October 2026.
What you can do here
- Search every recording at once from the home page. A search matches whole words and shows the sentence in context with a citation.
- Read a transcript beside its video. Every paragraph carries a timecode button that plays the video from that moment.
- Find an artist in the Artists list: where they speak, where others name them, and links to their own pages.
How the transcripts are made
Where Zoom produced a transcript it is used, because it labels who is speaking; otherwise the audio is transcribed with Whisper, an open speech-recognition program, and where neither exists YouTube's captions are used. Timestamps are matched to the YouTube video, including for recordings edited before upload. A speaker's name is shown only when it is supported by Zoom's own label, the speaker list in the video description, or a person who has listened and confirmed it. Otherwise the passage is marked Unattributed and is not offered as a search result, because a passage without a confirmed speaker cannot be cited.
Transcripts are machine-generated and contain errors. Names, art terms and technical vocabulary are the most likely to be wrong. Verify every quotation against the recording before citing it.
How to cite
Cite the passage with its speaker, the recording, the date, the timestamp and the YouTube address of the recording, which is permanent. Every search result offers a ready-made citation with a Copy Citation button. The form is:
Speaker Name, “Techspressionist Salon 111: Talking About Co-Working,” Techspressionism Video Archive, October 1, 2026, streaming video, 00:12:34, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg62EAcZAPc&t=754s.
The example uses Techspressionist Salon 111: Talking About Co-Working; each recording page also shows its own citation line.
Data and reuse
- recordings.csv: every recording with its title, dates, YouTube address and duration.
- Each transcript as plain Markdown:
transcripts/<recording>.md, for example salon-111.md. The recording pages link to theirs. - llms.txt: a Markdown index of the archive for AI assistants and search tools. sitemap.xml lists every page.
Reuse of the transcripts: CC BY 4.0.
The archive is in beta and pages may change. Sources: the recordings on the Techspressionism YouTube channel and the exhibition and artist pages on techspressionism.com.