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.