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Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television or experimental cinema). Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sound reproduction is the electrical or mechanical re-creation and/or amplification of sound, often as music. ... Experimental film, or experimental cinema, is a term that describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Video installation is a contemporary art method that combines video technology with installation art. ...

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 the video tape as the carrier. Despite obvious parallels and relationships, video art is not film. The video cassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... In electronics, solid state circuits are those that do not contain vacuum tubes. ... This article is about motion pictures. ...

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). Perhaps the simplest, most straightforward defining distinction in this respect would then be to say that (perhaps) cinema's ultimate goal is to entertain,^{[citation needed]} whereas video art's intentions are more varied, be they to simply explore the boundaries of the medium itself (e.g., Peter Campus, Double Vision) or to rigorously attack the viewer's expectations of video as shaped by conventional cinema (e.g., Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll). For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Dialogue (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up plot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). ... A short film (also short or short subject) is a motion picture that is shorter than the average feature film. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

History of video art

Video art is often said to have begun when Nam June Paik used his new Sony Portapak to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI's procession through New York City in the autumn of 1965. That same day, across town in a Greenwich Village cafe, Paik played the tapes and video art was born. The french artist Fred Forest has also used a Sony Portapak since 1967. This fact is sometimes disputed, however, due to the fact that the first Sony Portapak, the Videorover did not become commercially available until 1967 and that Andy Warhol is credited with showing underground video art mere weeks before Paik's papal procession screening. In 1959 Wolf Vostell incorporated a television set into one of his works, "Deutscher Ausblick" 1959, which is part of the collection of the Museum Berlinische Galerie possibly the first work of art with television. In 1963 Vostell exhibited his art environment "6 TV de-coll/age" at the Smolin Gallery in New York. This work is part of the Museo Reina Sofia collection in Madrid. Pre-Bell-Man, statue in front of the Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... The Portapak was the first portable video recording device. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... The Portapak was the first portable video recording device. ... Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wolf Vostell was one of the most important German artists after the Second World War. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is the official name Spains national museum of 20th century art (informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía or Queen Sofia Museum). ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ...

Prior to the introduction of the Sony Portapak, "moving image" technology was only available to the consumer (or the artist for that matter) by way of eight or sixteen millimeter film, but did not provide the instant playback that video tape technologies offered. Consequently, many artists found video more appealing than film, even more so when the greater accessibility was coupled with technologies which could edit or modify the video image.

The two examples mentioned above both made use of "low tech tricks" to produce seminal video art works. Peter Campus' Double Vision combined the video signals from two Sony Portapaks through an electronic mixer, resulting in a distorted and radically dissonant image. Jonas' Organic Honey's Vertical Roll involved recording previously recorded material as it was played back on a television — with the vertical hold setting intentionally in error. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

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. Ira Schneider started shooting video in 1969 with the advent of portable video recording equipment. ...

At the 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. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ... Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was an influential German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. ... Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... Chris Burden during the performance of his 1974 piece Trans-fixed where he was nailed to the hood of a Volkswagen Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. ... putos ... Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... Terry Fox (b. ... Fulcrum 1987, 55 ft high free standing sculpture of Cor-ten steel near Liverpool Street station, London Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. ... Keith Sonnier (born 1941, Mamou, Louisiana) is a minimalist, performance, video and light artist. ... putos ... William Wegman is an art photographer famous for his soulful compositions involving his Weimaraner dogs in various costumes and poses. ...

Prominent video artists

Many of the early prominent video artists were those involved with concurrent movements in conceptual art, performance, and experimental film. These include Americans Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Peter Campus, Doris Totten Chase, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, William Wegman, and many others. There were also those such as Steina and Woody Vasulka who were interested in the formal qualities of video and employed video synthesizers to create abstract works. Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... John Baldessari, (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Doris Totten Chase was born in 1923 in Seattle. ... Dan Graham (born 1942) is a U.S. artist He is based in New York, is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist. ... Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ... Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. ... William Wegman is an art photographer famous for his soulful compositions involving his Weimaraner dogs in various costumes and poses. ... Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940)[1] and Woody Vasulka (born 1937) are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s. ...

Notable pioneering video artists also emerged more or less simultaneously in Europe and elsewhere with work by Pascal Auger (France), Knox Harrington, Domingo Sarrey (Spain), Wolf Vostell (Germany), Dieter Froese (Germany), Wojciech Bruszewski (Poland), Wolf Kahlen (Germany), Peter Weibel (Austria), David Hall (UK), Lisa Steele (Canada), Miroslaw Rogala (Poland), Rodney Werden (Canada), Colin Campbell (Canada) and others. Domingo Sarrey (Santander, Spain, 1948) is a visual artist and video artist and a European video art pioneer. ... Wolf Vostell was one of the most important German artists after the Second World War. ... Wolf Kahlen (born in Aachen, Germany) is a video artist who has been exhibiting since the 1960s. ... Peter Weibel (* March 5, 1944 in Odessa, Ukraine) is an artist, curator and theoretician. ... This article is about the video artist. ... Lisa Steele was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1947 and immigrated to Canada in 1968. ... Miroslaw Rogala (b. ... Colin Campbell was born in Reston, Manitoba, 1942. ...

Video art today

Although it continues to be produced, it is represented by two varieties: single-channel and installation. Single-channel works are much closer to the conventional idea of television: a video is screened, projected or shown as a single image, Installation works involve either an environment, several distinct pieces of video presented separately, or any combination of video with traditional media such as sculpture. Installation video is the most common form of video art today. Sometimes it is combined with other media and is often subsumed by the greater whole of an installation or performance. Contemporary contributions are being produced at the crossroads of other disciplines such as installation, architecture, design, sculpture, electronic art, and digital art or other documentative aspects of artistic practice. Installation art uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way we experience a particular space. ... This article is about Performance art. ... Installation art uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way we experience a particular space. ... This article is about building architecture. ... All Saints Chapel in the Cathedral Basilica of St. ... “Sculptor” redirects here. ... Electronic art is art which makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. ... Computer-generated image created by Gilles Tran using POV-Ray 3. ...

The digital video "revolution" of the 1990s has given wide access to sophisticated editing and control technology, allowing many artists to work with video and to create interactive installations based on video. Some examples of recent trends in video art include entirely digitally rendered environments created with no camera and video that responds to the movements of the viewer or other elements of the environment. The internet has also been used to allow control of video in installations from the world wide web or from remote locations.

Emerging in the 1970s, Bill Viola (USA) continues as one of the world's most celebrated video artists. Matthew Barney, the creator of the Cremaster Cycle, is another well-known American video artist. Other contemporary video artists of note include Americans Gary Hill, Mary Lucier, and Sadie Benning, Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Shaun Wilson (Australia), Raymond Salvatore Harmon (America), Stan Douglas (Canada), Douglas Gordon (Scotland), Martin Arnold (Austria) , Gillian Wearing (UK), Helene Black (Cyprus), Agricola de Cologne (Germany), Paul Pfeiffer (America), Paul Chan (America), Miranda July (America), Walid Raad (Lebanon, America, and Eve Sussman (America). Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. ... Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. ... The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5. ... Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. ... Mary Lucier (born 1944, in Bucyrus, Ohio) is an American artist who has worked in many mediums including sculpture, photography, and performance. ... Sadie Benning is a video maker, visual artist, and musician. ... Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland) She is a very well-known video artist and earned worldwide reputation. ... Shaun Wilson (born Melbourne, 1972) is an Australian artist, film maker, academic and curator working with themes of memory, place and scale through painting, miniatures and video art. ... Raymond Salvatore Harmon Currently based out of Chicago, Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose work spans the past century of technological cul de sacs. ... Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an African-Canadian installation artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Self-portrait as Kurt Cobain, as Andy Warhol, as Myra Hindley, as Marilyn Monroe, 1996 Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. ... Martin Arnold (born 1959 in Vienna, Austria) is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive reworkings of found footage. ... Gillian Wearing (born 1963) is an English artist. ... Helene Black is a Cypriot artist working with various media. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Paul Pfeiffer (born Honolulu, Hawaii, 1966) is an American video artist whose work incorporates the use of found footage. ... Miranda July Miranda July (born February 1, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, and film director. ... Eve Sussman, an artist and movie producer, was born in England in 1961. ...

List of video art organizations

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• ArtRod - Creators of the Tollbooth Gallery, world's smallest gallery dedicated to wheat-paste and video fine arts and the Critical Line exhibition space
• The Experimental Television Center, New York
• LA Freewaves is an experimental media art festival with video art, shorts and animation; exhibitions are in Los Angeles and online.
• Lumen Eclipse - Harvard Square, MA
• LUX, London, England
• Perpetual art machine, New York
• Raindance Foundation, New York

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See also

• List of video artists
• Video synthesizer
• Experimental film
• New media art
• Interactive film
• Optical feedback
• Video jockey
• VJ (video performance artist)
• Live media
• Music visualization
• Visual Music
• Real-time computer graphics

List of notable artists who have contributed to video art: Vito Acconci Gustavo Aguerre J Tobias Anderson Ant Farm (group) Eleanor Antin Martin Arnold Matthew Barney Sadie Benning Helene Black Angie Bonino Olaf Breuning Colin Campbell Peter Campus Cecelia Condit Tony Conrad Chris Cunningham Stan Douglas Juan Downey Shahram Entekhabi... A Video Synthesizer is a device that electronically creates a video signal. ... Experimental film, or experimental cinema, is a term that describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking. ... New media art (also known as media art) is a generic term used to describe art related to, or created with, a technology invented or made widely available since the mid-20th Century. ... The term interactive video usually refers to a nowadays uncommon technique used to create computer games or interactive narratives. ... Optical feedback Credit: Profero Graphics Two Screenshots of optical feedback Credit: Profero Graphics Optical feedback is the optical equivalent of acoustic feedback. ... Video Jockey or VJ is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. ... A VJ is a performance artist who creates moving visual art (namely video) on large displays or screens, often at events such as concerts, nightclubs and music festivals, and usually in conjunction with other performance art. ... The term ‘Live Media’ covers a whole body of processes that enable the realisation of complex performances whose point of departure is the use of electronic audio and video platforms. ... Music/Audio players for personal computers became widespread in the mid to late 1990s as applications such as Winamp, Audion, and SoundJam. ... Visual music, sometimes called color music, refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. ... Real-time computer graphics is the subfield of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time. ...

References

• 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)
• Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood (New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1970).

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External links

• Video art at the Open Directory Project