Video Art Reading Notes:

“The Body, the Image, the Space In-Between”

-Installation Art depends entirely on the existence of the museum or gallery

-Framed by the room itself, when visitor examines the piece, they are (in a sense) in the piece

-With installation pieces, with the necessity for gallery permission, grants, and formal requests through detailed plans and models, improvisation is left to minimum…But there is still risk in execution, whether the installation will work in the space or not.

-This type of art allows the audiovisual experience to be a mind and body type of leaning.

-Performance art vs. theater:

Performance art allows the viewer to be part of the experience, inhabiting the same world, “possessing the same capacity to influence and respond to events.

-types of video installation:

-Closed-circuit video: Plays live footage of the viewers and space, projected or displayed on monitors.

-Recorded-video art installation: like spectator on a stage, with viewer interacting with screen, which has pre-recorded video playing.

-TV vs. Video Art: When watching TV, placement of the monitor itself is not important, only the imagery on the screen. With Video installation, the space the imagery is shown in is important, the monitor, imagery or video, floor, wall, window.

This video installation is called "Play Dead: Real Time". The artist is Douglas Gordon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XD6fuf0ho
Currently I believe it is at the MoMA, but I'm not positive.

“Video Art”- Reading Notes

pg. 20-25, 36, 54, 68, 76

Candice Breitz “Mother + Father” (2005)

-Uses numerous monitors, arranged in arcs while playing clips from various parts of movies containing 12 famous actors.

-Cuts the clips to have them moving in conjunction with one another

-“It’s a rhythmic, electronic collage.”

Dan Graham  “Video Piece for Two Glass Office Buildings”

-This piece uses projection of architectural space to show different perspectives and viewpoints.

-Ideas of architecture have been present in his work since this piece

Aernout Mik “Dispersion Room”

-Presents an office space with workers in an “unfettered, free state.” 

-outside of confines of the office space, juxtaposing the standard and boring work of the office space, and the norms within such a space, and the actions the workers are performing.

Tony Oursler  (Numerous Works)

-His work is both sculpture and video art

-Possibly the best known American video artist

-Commonly uses various projections of faces in situations of anguish or discomfort projected upon mediums including wood, plaster, and the wall.

-Ideas pursued in his work include mental annexation, loneliness, insomnia, and fear.

Appropriated Video Project: Planetarium

Here is the link to my video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkpUB-R_TaA