Esopus Issue 15: Television

Esopus 15 (Fall 2010) is a single-subject issue on television, covering the people who made it, its history and the artists who have used it.

It opens with Keith Arnatt's Self Burial: Television Interference Project of 1969. There are interviews with Norman Lear, with Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King, and with Larry Auerbach, and essays by Jean Passanante, Mame McCutchin and Angus Trumble. Johan Grimonprez, Alex Bag and Dara Birnbaum contribute artists' projects. The 100 Frames series reproduces stills from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire (1973), introduced by J. Hoberman, and Modern Artifacts 8, introduced by Michelle Elligott, is titled The Art of Broadcasting. The Esopus Invitational asks "What would you like to see on television?" The issue came with the CD Television.

Esopus was founded in New York in 2003 by Tod Lippy, who edited and designed it for the nonprofit Esopus Foundation. It ran without advertising for twenty-five issues, until 2018.