Feb 17 HW

Video Art-Notes

1960’s events of note:

March 1963, Wuppertal, Nam June Paik showed “exposition of Music- Electronic Television”

·      Used for music

Wolf Vostell (1963) @ NY Smolin Gallery

“Wolf Vostell & Television Decollage and Decolage Posters & Comestible Decolage”

6 TV sets all showing different programs

1969, Germany

Gerry Schum produced a 38 minute tape called “Land Art”

1967 Sony comes out with the first analog video recording device

Was a two piece recording device, one for sound, the other for video

Image Quality of the 70’s

·      Black and white overlayed with a grey veil

·      Color videos have a somewhat unnatural coloration

·      Greenish night photo’s or video

·      Blurry quality

1969 “Television as a Creative Medium” is shown at NY Howard Wise Gallery

1969 “Following Piece” by Vito Acconci created

·      Followed random people & took shots of them.

·      Continued for 23 days

1970’s

1970 “Shoot” created by Chris Burden

·      Performance took aim at imagined fears, pain, helplessness and fear of death

Image of Women

VALERIE EXPORT

·      Lynn Hershman

·      Nancy Holt

·      Ulrike Rosenbach

·      (and others)

First generation of artists to use video to describe and question womens place within a patriarchal society.

Urlike Rosenbach- “Reflections of the Birth of Venus”

·      Projected an image of Botticelli painting of Venus upon herself commenting on outdated ideals of beauty.

1970 “Live/ Taped Video Corridor” Bruce Nauman.

·      Creates confusion for viewer and makes them question their reality and orientation

Pipilotti Rist & Diana Thater

·      Two artists who play with metally annexing the viewer with their instalations.

·      “Delphine” (1999) Thater creates an underwater scene for the viewer to enjoy

·      “Homo Sapiens Sapiens” Rist creates rivers of images that the viewer can sit and enjoy. The viewer gets to choose when they are through watching. The video continues

Time Codes

·      Video is a time based medium

·      Many early artists recorded themselves performing in real time creating a documentary style effect

1980

·      Video equipment is become much cheaper, easier to use, and technically better.

·      There has developed a new technique of using multiple monitors in a series as a wall, stack, or staggered.