Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Video Art Notes: pgs. 6-20

"Video is a means of preservation that retains the recorded material in a state of permanent availability and manipulability."
  • video dissociates itself in a further technical step= showing reality
  • images increase in today's culture time millions
  • video= dialogical memory -Vilem Flusser
  • inter medium
  • 1960s
    • art transforming in many mediums
    • visual art was forming (ex: Paik's "Exposition of Music- Electronic Television")
    • television as an artists instrument
    •  Fish Tank first reality tv?
    • video is cinema that can appear everywhere  
  •  Technology and image
    • step from analouge to digital
    • NTSC =30 pictures/sec
    • 1971= play back, rewind, and fast forward
    • digital approach to electronic image editing
    • binary code= code based on only two numbers (stored on CDs, cassets, DVD, DV)
    • images projected in art world
    • video picture is a procedural, non-discrete image type
  • 1970s
    • social and political renewal
    • became an important system by which artists reflected both upon themselves and the viewer's position
    • technology and video art grow together and reflect one another
  • Body and Preformance
    • " I am a man or I am  machine?"- jean Baudrillard
    • view of just camera in studio, or camera from bodily view
    • body-related action art
  • the image of woman
    • such artists use the female body as a means of pointing out entrenched role models and patterns of behavior
    • "femininity" became more varied and complex
  • entering intermedial space
    • spatial and temporal components corresponded with eachother on different levels
    • images of people that would allow them to experience themselves
    • dan graham
    • rest on floor mats and lose themselves in tapestry of images= sitting on the couch and watching tv
  • Time Codes
    • time-based media
    • performances in real time
    •  the loop is one possibility in which generally shorter periods of time can be placed in a series of endless repetitions 
    •  hyper-slow perceived as a still image
  • 1980s
    • label video artists
    •  camera was now an instrument of visualizing complex narratives and fictions
    • MTV
    • Video art had taken on the short clip aesthetic

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