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Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television production or experimental film.) Video art came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as the new technology became available outside corporate broadcasting and is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast, viewed in galleries or other venues, or distributed as video tapes or DVD discs; sculptural installations, which may incorporate one or more television sets or video monitors, displaying live or recorded images and sound; and performances in which video representations are included.[1]
Overview
Video art is named after the video tape, which was most commonly used in the form's early years, but before that artists had already been working on film, and with changes in technology Hard Disk, CD-ROM, DVD, and solid state are superseding tape but the electronic video signal remains the carrier of moving image work. Despite obvious parallels and relationships, video art is not experimental film. One of the key differences between video art and theatrical cinema is that video art does not necessarily rely on many of the conventions that define theatrical cinema. Video art may not employ the use of actors, may contain no dialogue, may have no discernible narrative or plot, or adhere to any of the other conventions that generally define motion pictures as entertainment. This distinction is important, because it delineates video art not only from cinema but also from the subcategories where those definitions may become muddy (as in the case of avant garde cinema or short films). Video art's intentions are varied, from exploring the boundaries of the medium itself (e.g., Peter Campus, Double Vision) to rigorously attacking the viewer's expectations of video as shaped by conventional cinema (e.g., Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll).
Video art error. The first multi-channel video art (using several monitors or screens) was Wipe Cycle by Ira Schneider and Frank Gillette. An installation of nine television screens, Wipe Cycle for the first time combined live images of gallery visitors, found footage from commercial television, and shots from pre-recorded tapes. The material was alternated from one monitor to the next in an elaborate choreography. At the USA's San Jose State TV studios in 1970, Willoughby Sharp began the Videoviews series of videotaped dialogues with artists. The Videoviews series consists of Sharps dialogues with Bruce Nauman (1970), Joseph Beuys (1972), Vito Acconci (1973), Chris Burden (1973), Lowell Darling (1974), and Dennis Oppenheim (1974). Also in 1970, Sharp curated Body Works, an exhibition of video works by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California. Meanwhile in the UK David Hall's "TV Interruptions" (1971) were transmitted intentionally unannounced and uncredited on Scottish TV, the first artist interventions on British television.
Video art Shaun Wilson (Australia); Stan Douglas (Canada); Douglas Gordon (Scotland); Olga Kisseleva (Russia); Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (Belgium); Martin Arnold (Austria); Matthias Mller (Germany), Heiko Daxl (Germany); Gillian Wearing (UK); Stefano Cagol (Italy); Helene Black (Cyprus); Shirin Neshat (Iran/USA); Aernout Mik (Netherlands), Jordi Colomer (Spain/France), Sergei Shutov (Russia), and Walid Raad (Lebanon/USA).
Impakt Festival, Utrecht Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Souvenirs from Earth, Art TV Station on European Cable Networks (Paris, Cologne)
References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Hartney, Mick. "Video art" (http:/ / www. moma. org/ collection/ details. php?theme_id=10215), MoMA, accessed January 31, 2011 Wolf Vostell, Black Room Cycle, 1958 (http:/ / www. medienkunstnetz. de/ works/ deutscher-ausblick/ ) Wolf Vostell, 6 TV D-coll/age, 1963 (http:/ / www. medienkunstnetz. de/ works/ television-decollage/ ) Wolf Vostell, Sun in your head, 1963 (http:/ / www. museoreinasofia. es/ programas-publicos/ audiovisuales/ 2011/ era-video/ dia1. html) (http:/ / www. webnetmuseum. org/ html/ en/ expo-retr-fredforest/ actions/ 59_02_en. htm#text)
Further reading
Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture by Sean Cubitt (MacMillan, 1993). A History of Experimental Film and Video by AL Rees (British Film Institute, 1999). New Media in Late 20th-Century Art by Michael Rush (Thames & Hudson, 1999). Mirror Machine: Video and Identity, edited by Janine Marchessault (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1995). Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, edited by John G. Hanhardt (Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986). Video Art: A Guided Tour by Catherine Elwes (I.B. Tauris, 2004). A History of Video Art by Chris Meigh-Andrews (Berg, 2006) Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art edited by Julia Knight (University of Luton/Arts Council England, 1996) ARTFORUM FEB 1993 "Travels In The New Flesh" by Howard Hampton (Printed by ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL 1993) Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices', (eds. Renov, Michael & Erika Suderburg) (London, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,1996). Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood (New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1970). The Problematic of Video Art in the Museum 1968-1990 by Cyrus Manasseh (Cambria Press, 2009).
"First Electronic Art Show" by (Niranjan Rajah & Hasnul J Saidon) (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 1997) "Relocations - The Electronic Art of Niranjan Rajah & Hasnul J Saidon" by (Roopesh Sitharan) (Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah & Artspace Gallery, 2007)
Video art "Expanded Cinema", (David Curtis, Al Rees, Duncan White, and Steven Ball, eds), Tate Publishing, 2011 (http:// www.tate.org.uk/shop/do/Books/Expanded-Cinema/product/46523) "Retrospektiv-Film-org videokunst| Norge 1960-90". Edited by Farhad Kalantary & Linn Lervik. Atopia Stiftelse, Oslo, (April 2011). (http://www.atopia.no/retrospective.html) Experimental Film and Video, Jackie Hatfield, Editor. (John Libbey Publishing, 2006; distributed in North America by Indiana University Press) (http://www.johnlibbey.com/books_detail.php?area=cine&ID=132) " REWIND: British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s", (Sean Cubitt, and Stephen Partridge, eds), John Libbey Publishing, 2012. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/REWIND-British-Artists-Video-1970s/dp/0861967062/ ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329915519&sr=1-1)
External links
Video art (http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Video//) at the Open Directory Project
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