Video Art

1. Video Art IB Arts La Paz Community School Miss Raquel

2. Video Art • Video art is a type of artwhich relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. • Came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as the new technology became available outside corporate broadcasting and is still practiced and has given rise to the 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’s; 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.

3. Where’s the Popcorn? • 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). n

4. Nam June Paik • Is a Korean Americanartist that has worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. • Paik is credited with an early usage (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" in application to telecommunications. • Began participating in the Neo-Dada art movement, known as Fluxus, which was inspired by the composer John Cage and his use of everyday sounds and noises in his music. • Known for making robots out of television sets. These were constructed using pieces of wire and metal, but later Paik used parts from radio and television sets.

7. Joan Jonas • Considered a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. • She was born in 1936 in New York City. She began her career there as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading-edge territory: mixing performance with props and mediated images, situated outside in natural and/or industrial environments.

10. Bill Viola • American contemporary video artist. • Raised in Queens, New York, and Westbury, New York. • Graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 1973. • Considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. • His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.

14. Peter Campus • American born artist, known for his interactive and single channel video work of the early 1970s • After military service, Campus studied film editing and worked in the film industry as a production manager and editor, making documentaries until the early 1970s. • During this period he developed an interest in Minimal Art, becoming friends with the sculptor Robert Grosvenor. • Campus achieved rapid acclaim for a series of seminal video works that explored issues of identity/reality and subversion of the relationship between the viewer and the work.

16. PipilottiRist • Visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections. • Rist was born in 1962 in Switzerland. Since her childhood she has been nicknamed Pipilotti. The name refers to the novel Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren. • Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the School of Design Switzerland. • Her works generally last only a few minutes, and contained alterations in their colors, speed, and sound. • Focuses on issues related to gender, sexuality, and the human body. • Her colorful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity.

18. Douglas Gordon • Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prizein 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. • Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms. • He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors