La videoarte

Estetica dei nuovi mediaProf. Federica Timeto,

A.A. 2010-2011

Uso artistico manipolatorio del cinema

• Man Ray, Le retour à la raison (1923)

http://www.ubu.com/film/ray_retour.html• Fernand Léger, Ballet Mécanique (1924)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5RVBIm_muc

• Hans Richter, Rhytmus 21 (1921) http://www.ubu.com/film/richter_rhythmus.html

• Andy Wahrol, Kiss, 1963 o Empire, 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZL-kwp40so

Wolfgang Staehle, «Empire 24/7», 1999, videostills daInstallazione webcam

dilatazione temporale

Lo schermo in fotografia e la compressione temporale

Hiroshi Sugimoto, ciclo di fotografie anni ‘70

Jim Campbell, «Illuminated Average #1» Hitchcock's Psycho, 2000

Suono

John Cage, 4’33’’, 1952, concerto for pianohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2zcLBr_VM&feature=related

Luce

Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, 2003http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dFOphuPqMo&feature=related

Aspetti del video

• Autoproduzione – democratizzazione del mezzo

> 1965: Nam June Paik usa il primo videoregistratore portatile Sony Portapak

a) enfasi sul mezzo > interesse per gli aspetti ambientali e percettivi, o manipolazione del codice

b) Estetica del documentare > accentuazione degli aspetti narrativi, video come microdramma

c) Atteggiamento critico-decostruttivo > recupero della dimensione esperienziale

Nam June Paik«Kuba-TV»

Interactive installation with TV as part of the «Exposition of Music–

Electronic Television» in Wuppertal, 1963.

Televisione musico-elettronica. Il suono si vede sullo schermo

Dall’uso del televisore come oggetto per installazioni o happening si passa all’intervento a livello di trasmissione dei dati (il primo è Nam June Paik)

 Wolf Vostell«Television Décollage»1963

Nam June Paik, «TV-Buddha», 1974

1969, Gerry Schum, Fernsehgalerie (Television Gallery)

Lo schermo come spazio espositivo

-La videosfera-La televisione come strumento di produzione e distribuzione-Connettività diffusa-L’esperienza del vedersi ele sue implicazioni psicologiche- Il processo feedback

Forma

Steina & Woody Vasulka, Calligrams, 1970http://www.ubu.com/film/vasulka_calligrams.html

Video e performance

• Black Mountain College, North Carolina (anni ’50)

• Happenings di Allan Kaprow (anni ’50)• Judson Dance Theater, NY, 1962-4

(Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann)

• Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll, 1972 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqJZOFzbfA&feature=related

Videoarte come documentazione della performance

Shoot, Chris Burden, 1971http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26R9KFdt5aY

Chris Burden, «TV Hijack», 1972

Marina Abramovic e Ulay

Relation in Space, 1976

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/relation-in-space/

Expanding in Space, 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQUC0-AlUo

Relation In time, 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sRSoGAc3H0 Art Must Be Beautiful,

Artist Must Be Beautiful1975

Bruce Nauman

Frammenti di performances 1968-9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXieUZ_RNG4&feature=related

Valie Export, Tap and Touch

Cinema (1968-71)

‘As usual, the film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it. To see (i.e. feel, touch) the film, the viewer (user) has to stretch his hands through the entrance to the cinema. At last, the curtain which formerly rose only for the eyes now rises for both hands.The tactile reception is the opposite of the deceit of voyeurism. For as long as the citizen is satisfied with the reproduced copy of sexual freedom, the state is spared the sexual revolution. ‘Tap and Touch Cinema’ is an example of how re-interpretation can activate the public.’

Vito Acconci,Seedbed, 1972http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/x7ygpc_vito-acconci-seedbed-1972_creation

Marina Abramovic performingVito Acconci's Seedbed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on November 10, 2005. (poi in Seven Easy Pieces)

Bill Viola, Reverse television, 1982http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GrIN9m83zw

Operazioni concettuali

Stan Douglas, Monodramas, 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8e4tJo183E

Anticipazioni della realtà virtuale

Alfons Schilling, «Video-Head-Set», 1973

La videosorveglianza nelle prime videoperformance

• Vito Acconci, Following Piece, 1969

• Yoko Ono & John Lennon, Rape, 1968

• Bruce Nauman, Video Corridor, 1970 http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/live-taped-video-corridor/video/1/

• Dan Graham, Time Delay Room 1974http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/time-delay-room/video/1/