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Video Art
So what is video art?
The relationship between video and art-
• Video installation art is a collaboration of sound, image and
space with a close relationship to art and music rather than
cinema
• This challenges notions of screen, space and realism
• Artists using technology to interrogate potential of the
technology and art combined, outside of the ideas of video and
television narratives.
• Abstract film making becomes a direct carrier of visual
information as it’s no longer seen as a medium for reproducing
an external reality.
• Artists are less interested in narrative than extending their
aesthetic and abstract studies to add to the new medium which
is video technology, allowing them to create video art and
installations.
• “The solution to this problem is to disrupt the pattern, which
Viola has done, and this prompts reflection and hence the fresh
recognition of a familiar phenomenon.” Tate Modern Research
Video artists commented on cultural wars surrounding TV and its
prevalence in the 20th century household.
They were responding to being unhappy with the quality of
programmes, lack of diverse content and the same routine visual
sameness of it.
• Lillian Schwartz - Pixilation(video produced abstract images)
• Mann Ray – experimenting and exploring boundaries of art and video
• Richard Serra- criticising how the television affects us as viewers (television delivers people)
• Nam Jun Paik- altered live broadcast tv transmission (video walls)
• Bruce Nauman- Perimeter of the square- examining how people act/move when a camera is on them by how they see themselves through the camera.
• Les Levine- Iris- interested in tv environments with movement of information within physical and temporal limits
• Dieter Froese- Not a model for Big Brothers spy cycle- spans reality and pretence, authentic object and model.
• Bill Viola- 210 frames per second- using technology to invite the viewer to see the world differently
Video Artists
Research Question.
How does video art help us see
art differently?
Bill Viola’s Emergence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPf6mHKYD0
Bill Viola (born January 25, 1951) is a contemporary video
artist. He is 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
Video art allows us to see a different dimension to art, space
and screen.
“One way to do so would be to perform the production of
organizational space in slow motion, similar to how the
American video-artist Bill Viola crafts slow motion video-
projects” Timon Beyes (2012)
Bill viola’s emergence allows the audience to see the in-
between ‘time’ with his use of slow motion. Giving the
viewers a chance to see something that moves too fast for
the human eyes.
The extreme slow motion enables the viewer to share
privileged information about the complexity of the
simplest gestures, catching details that would normally
escape the naked eye.
This notion influenced me to create my own slow motion video
created by a camera and editing software on a computer and also
one filmed and edited by in iPhone.
Video 1- camera and computer software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ukRQbaZE&feature=yo
utu.be
Video 2- iPhone and app editing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WLlG8rwhM&list=UU
K3YjAAn9oBMl6Vl0mvG-pQ&index=1
Slowed down to 500 frames per second
Reflection
• If it was only one big project with a practical piece I
would have used more expensive, better equipment and
software both on my phone and computer.
• After getting the footage for my videos I realised that I
should have chosen a better subject rather than an egg as
sometimes you can see this with your eyes without the
slow motion.
• If I could do this project again I would try to be more
experimental with the slow motion and lighting as I think
it would have been a different approach to the subject.
Bibliography
Bill Viola’s Emergence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPf6mHKYD0
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/rina-arya-bill-viola-and-the-sublime-r1141441
Lovejoy, M. 1990, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media, Steven Foster.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/hito-steyerl-video-installations-ica-london (last accessed on 25.10.14)
Spacing organization: non-representational theory and performing organizational space- online journal http://org.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/03/18/1350508411401946.abstract
MY Videos –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ukRQbaZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WLlG8rwhM
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