VIDEO ART

¸MA. Vesna Srnić (Bill Violla: I do not know what it is I am like)

Contents

• Television as an artistic medium• Difference between TV and video:

Video art as a new economy of seeing• Usage of Video in Art • Themes and features of Video – art• Several famous Video artists

Television as an artistic medium

• Television and Video appears in 1960`s, processed through the same system: audio-visual information is teleported as “the music of electrons”

• In 1969`s first experiments on TV and Video: Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Terry Riley i Phil Makana (electromagnetic distorsions)

• Video statics: Zero degree of medium expression (simultanity)

• Video dynamics: in-processness and montage

Dinko Cepak: TV sequence

Difference between TV and Video: Video art as “a new economy of

seeing”• Video has specific graffic potential and creative synthesis of thinking ( cybernetic art)

• Video uses “electronic processed figuration”, namely hardware and software

• Creating transnational video consciousness, artist becomes ecologicaly responsible

• By semantic shifting existential supportings become obvious as overmastering the media, antropologicaly humanising the technology and generating a New Reality

• “NEW ECONOMY OF SEEING” (Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid)

•Jeremy Welsh: “Labyrinth”,1987

Usage of Video in Art

• From Video experiments, through Video instalations to Video Art

• Dalibor Martinis: “Kameni vrt” (Stone

garden), 1986

“Maltese falcon”, instalation, 2002

Themes and features of Video – art

• Video-artists explore: everyday life, society, culture, nature, phenomena (love, identity, feminism)

• Personal appearance of artist in his work of art

• “Sincere” sexuality

• Subversivness

• Blending of mental and projective (electronic) picture through particular “iconic thinking”, on a symbolic level, fantasms and certain autoeroticism

•Sanja Iveković: ”Make up-Make down”, 1976

Several famous Video artists• Nam June Paik: “Zen for

TV”, 1965• Dalibor Martinis: “Otvoreni

kolut” (Open Reel), 1976• Dara Birnbaum:

“Damnation of Faust”, 1985

• Bill Seaman: “ Telling motions”, 1986

• Bill Viola: “I do not know what it is I am like”, 1986

• Sanja Iveković: “Maja”, 1986

• Jeremy Welsh: “Labyrinth”, 1987

• Breda Beban/Hrvoje Horvatic: “All our secrets are contained in an Image”

•Gary Hill: “Incidence of catastrophy”, 1988

Bill Viola, I do not know what it is I am like, 1986

Breda Beban/Hrvoje Horvatić:Sve naše tajne nastaju iz jedne slike, 1987