Final Questions - Rebecca Lester

Body and Performance:
1. According to Vito Acconci why can art and life fully merge?
-He asserts that art doesn't have the rules life does so they can't fully become one.
2. How did some artists engage with video in the first half of the 1970s?
- Some artists performed alone in their own studios with only the camera as an audience.
3. How did Nauman and Graham use live video feedback?
-Nauman used it to unsettle his audience by having them view thmselves effectively in reverse as they approached the screen that showed them from the back. Graham used it as an experiment to allow his audience to perceive their own presence.
4. How did video art presentation change in the 1990s?
- Video artists began to use more open installation formats such as sculpture and architectural projections.

Movie Video:
1. Who was the first director to integrate cinematic and videographic elements?
- Jean- Luc Goddard.
2. What are the characteristics of a feature film?
- Feature films are displayed in dark theaters, on a large screen, and use this setting to create the illusion that the viewer exhanges their own identity for the projected reality.
3. How is video art different from cinematic films according to the text?
- Video art is displayed in installations which use multiple projections, split screens, or screens placed away from walls.
4. What other art form inspired video artists?
- Theatre

FINAL QUESTIONS - ILARIA CECCON

CHAPTER MOVING PICTURES

1. When did the video establish itself in the art context?

Video art started to establish itself in the 1960s.

2. How does video differs from film and television?

It directly translates the audio-visual material into analogue or digital code

3. What did artists do in the second half of the 1960s?

They broke with convention

4. What is video?

Is a mean of preservation that retains the recorded material in a state of permanent availability and manipulability

CHAPTER BODY AND PERFORMANCE

      1.     What did Action Artists focus on?

      The body as aesthetic material, as a projection surface and as an indicator of mental states

      2.     What did Bruce Nauman and Dan Graham do around 1970?

They set new standards with their video-based room installations. They used live video feedback systems, showing images recorded by the camera on a monitor at the same time they were taken 

       3.     What happened in 1990?

An increasingly open form of presentation for video installation developed. The electronic image then took up a roving existence between monitor and projection

       4.     What did the traversable pieces of installation demanded?

They demanded recipients who actively entered into the cognitive process, emotionally as well as physically: without such partners the artistic work remained inactive

CHAPTER MOVIE VIDEO

1.     When did the first integration of cinematic and video graphic elements occur?

They occurred when the French writer-director Jean-Luc Godard experimented with video for a short time beginning in 1968

2.     What are feature films associated with?

Particular images and codes in the so-called collective cultural memory: the films are customarily shown in darkened theatres on a large screen

3.     What did theatre do?

It has introduced a form of affective artificiality into works constructed to be cinematically illusionist, as well as those in a documentary style

4.     What video installations did they use?

Multiple projections, split screens (an image divided into several fields), or screens placed away from walls to allow them to be viewed from front and back simultaneously

Tue class 22 nov

Dear students, please read the introduction -chapter Body and Perfomance and movie video. (except chapter time codes and write 4 questions related to the text of each chapter.

Have a look to the posts in the class blog, from the fist to the last and select a video artist or an artist for your PPoint - final exam
Antonia- I would like to make a presentation about Marina Abramovic
Ilaria- I would like to make a presentation about Yang Fu Dong
Olivia- Pipilotti Rist
Mathilda- Nam June Paik
Emily- Peter Campus
Sophia- Gillian Wearing

Chantal Akerman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman

A Conversation With CHANTAL AKERMAN // Venice 2011

"La chambre" (1972) Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman - Saute ma ville (1968)