Video Art

So what is video art?

The relationship between video and art-

• Video installation art is a collaboration of sound, image and

space with a close relationship to art and music rather than

cinema

• This challenges notions of screen, space and realism

• Artists using technology to interrogate potential of the

technology and art combined, outside of the ideas of video and

television narratives.

• Abstract film making becomes a direct carrier of visual

information as it’s no longer seen as a medium for reproducing

an external reality.

• Artists are less interested in narrative than extending their

aesthetic and abstract studies to add to the new medium which

is video technology, allowing them to create video art and

installations.

• “The solution to this problem is to disrupt the pattern, which

Viola has done, and this prompts reflection and hence the fresh

recognition of a familiar phenomenon.” Tate Modern Research

Video artists commented on cultural wars surrounding TV and its

prevalence in the 20th century household.

They were responding to being unhappy with the quality of

programmes, lack of diverse content and the same routine visual

sameness of it.

• Lillian Schwartz - Pixilation(video produced abstract images)

• Mann Ray – experimenting and exploring boundaries of art and video

• Richard Serra- criticising how the television affects us as viewers (television delivers people)

• Nam Jun Paik- altered live broadcast tv transmission (video walls)

• Bruce Nauman- Perimeter of the square- examining how people act/move when a camera is on them by how they see themselves through the camera.

• Les Levine- Iris- interested in tv environments with movement of information within physical and temporal limits

• Dieter Froese- Not a model for Big Brothers spy cycle- spans reality and pretence, authentic object and model.

• Bill Viola- 210 frames per second- using technology to invite the viewer to see the world differently

Video Artists

Research Question.

How does video art help us see

art differently?

Bill Viola’s Emergence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPf6mHKYD0

Bill Viola (born January 25, 1951) is a contemporary video

artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of

artists whose artistic expression depends upon

electronic, sound, and image technology in new Media. His

works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human

experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness

Video art allows us to see a different dimension to art, space

and screen.

“One way to do so would be to perform the production of

organizational space in slow motion, similar to how the

American video-artist Bill Viola crafts slow motion video-

projects” Timon Beyes (2012)

Bill viola’s emergence allows the audience to see the in-

between ‘time’ with his use of slow motion. Giving the

viewers a chance to see something that moves too fast for

the human eyes.

The extreme slow motion enables the viewer to share

privileged information about the complexity of the

simplest gestures, catching details that would normally

escape the naked eye.

This notion influenced me to create my own slow motion video

created by a camera and editing software on a computer and also

one filmed and edited by in iPhone.

Video 1- camera and computer software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ukRQbaZE&feature=yo

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Video 2- iPhone and app editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WLlG8rwhM&list=UU

K3YjAAn9oBMl6Vl0mvG-pQ&index=1

Slowed down to 500 frames per second

Reflection

• If it was only one big project with a practical piece I

would have used more expensive, better equipment and

software both on my phone and computer.

• After getting the footage for my videos I realised that I

should have chosen a better subject rather than an egg as

sometimes you can see this with your eyes without the

slow motion.

• If I could do this project again I would try to be more

experimental with the slow motion and lighting as I think

it would have been a different approach to the subject.

Bibliography

Bill Viola’s Emergence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPf6mHKYD0

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/rina-arya-bill-viola-and-the-sublime-r1141441

Lovejoy, M. 1990, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media, Steven Foster.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/hito-steyerl-video-installations-ica-london (last accessed on 25.10.14)

Spacing organization: non-representational theory and performing organizational space- online journal http://org.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/03/18/1350508411401946.abstract

MY Videos –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ukRQbaZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WLlG8rwhM