"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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