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Video Art Review

Video Art Review. Video Art. Where Did It All Start?. The 1 st portable video camera was released to the general public – 1960 Individual artists embrace Video as new and exciting medium. Video art is born – mid 1960s. Joan Jonas.

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Video Art Review

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  1. Video ArtReview

  2. Video Art. Where Did It All Start? • The 1st portable video camera was released to the general public – 1960 • Individual artists embrace Video as new and exciting medium. Video art is born – mid1960s

  3. Joan Jonas • Finding video “very magical” and imagining herself as • “an electronic sorceress conjuring the images”, Jonas • invented the name Organic Honey as an alter ego. Nam June Paik • For him, video was the most appropriate medium to • reflect modernity. “Skin has become inadequate in • interfacing with reality. Technology has become the • body’s new membrane of existence.” “The future • is now.”

  4. Video Art. Where Did It All Start? • Video art movement has strong ties to Conceptual Art, Performance Art, etc. • 20th century artists questioned the long tradition of traditional painting (i.e. started using all kinds of materials, installed art outdoors, etc.)

  5. American Art in the 60s • The viewers are incorporated into the work of art • A lot of artists emphasize the use of chance and randomness in their art

  6. American Art in the 60s • Art is very closely related to life • Greater emphasis is being placed on the creative process and the conceptual aspect of the work“Painterly action took precedence over the painted subject” – Michael Rush

  7. Video, Film, TV – Main Differences • Video work is not a commercial product for sale or mass consumption. • Video art is a form of self expression • Artists who came to technological media from other forms often transferred their painterly or sculptural concerns to the new medium, whether film, video, or digital art

  8. Fluxus Films1960s -70s

  9. Fluxus films • Short films created by artists of the Fluxusmovement between 1960 and 1970 • Fluxus– (in Latin means “to flow”) Is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s.

  10. Fluxus films - Characteristics • Are considered critiques of main-stream film • Minimalist aesthetics (depict minimal action) • Highly poetic & meditative, often with a playful streak • Artists were interested in essentials of film and film techniques • Fluxus artists found meaning in the everyday material of their art • Examples: a collection of 32 short films

  11. Nam June Paik – Video Art Pioneer • A Korean-born artist, b 1932. • During Korean War had to flee to Hong Kong and later Japan • Studied music in Germany where he met John Cage andJoseph Beuys • Started making electronic artin the 60s combining video, music, film, etc.

  12. Nam June Paik – Video Art Pioneer • Was fascinated with TV sets and the moving images • In the work TV Cello, he and another artist stacked TVs on top one another, so that they formed the shape of an actual cello. When Moorman drew her bow across the “cello,” images of her and other cellists playing appeared on the screens.

  13. Fluxus film by Paik Zen for Film, Nam June Paik, 1962-64, video

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  15. Avant-Garde Films1950s and 60s

  16. Avant-Garde Films • Originally a military term, the avant-gardenow primarily refers to the front line in the arts. Avant-garde = experimental. • Often characterized by the absence of linear narrative, the use of various abstracting techniques: out-of-focus, scratching on film, rapid editing, the absence of sound • Took an oppositional stance toward mainstream culture

  17. Andy Warhol • An American artist and filmmaker born in 1928 • A leading figure in Pop Art • Began making paintings of iconic American products and celebrities and founded “The Factory”, his studio, during the 1960’s

  18. Andy Warhol “Andy Warhol was naturally drawn to the movie camera… he was not immune to fame, to say the least, knowing well that ‘movies’ were the most alluring path to it.”- Michael Rush. He made over 60 films between 1963 and 68 that became classics of the underground genre.

  19. Warhol’s Films from the 60s Screen Tests of Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol, 1964-66, video More tests Empire State Building Time-lapse, Andy Warhol

  20. Video &Performance Art

  21. Video & Performance Art • Performance art was born in New York in the 60s as the • result of cross fertilization between theater, dance, film, • video and visual art. • Some examples of performance art involved: • - Live performers interacting with filmed images projected onto surfaces • - Artists performing in front of the camera in their studios • - Artists using cameras and monitors as both theatrical propsand sculptural elements in their performances (Ex: Joan Jonas)

  22. Joan Jonas – Video, Performance Art Was born in New York in 1936 Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art. She began her career as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading edge territory: mixing performances with props and mediated images.

  23. Joan Jonas – Video, Performance Art “… in my early performances I was like a piece of material, or an object that moved stiffly, like a puppet or a figure in a medieval painting… I gave up sculpture and walked into the space… What attracted me to performance was the possibility of mixing sound, movement, image, all the different elements to make a complex statement.”

  24. Joan Jonas – Performance, Video Art Joan Jonas, This is My Right Eye, 1970s

  25. Bruce Nauman – Video Artist American artist born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking and performance.

  26. Bruce Nauman - Performance Art Walking in an Exaggerated Manner by Bruce Nauman

  27. What is Installation Art? An artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space.

  28. Video Installation Art Is a type of installation art in which video is an integral component.

  29. Nam June Paik TV Buddha, Nam June Paik, 1974, video installation

  30. Tony Oursler Was born in New York in 1957 Got his BFA degree at CalArts in 1979 His art covers a range of mediums: • video • sculpture • installation • performance • painting • His art explores the relationship • between the individual and mass • media with humor and imagination.

  31. Tony Oursler Coo, Tony Oursler, 2003, video installation

  32. Tony Oursler Open Obscura, Tony Oursler, Installation in Milan, Italy - 2011

  33. Shooting Film Framing and Focus http://vimeo.com/14577729

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