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)

Chris Marker - La Jetée [1962]

Chris Marker, La Jetee, 1962

Chris Marker

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

Le Jetté

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e

claudio questions

1)what did richard billingham done in 1998?
2)what are the differences between analogue and digital media production?
3)what happened in the period of social and political renewal?
4) what did dan graham done in 1970?

Emily 4 Questions p.10-13

1. What year did Sony's first analogue video device appear on the market, and which video artist used the first Sony black-white recorder?
- In 1967, Sony put the first analogue video divide on the market. One year later, in 1968, Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker used the Sony black-white recorder to make their raw documentary films.

2. In 1969, what was considered one of the first thematic presentations and where?
- "Television as a Creative Medium" in New York's Howard Wise Gallery.

3. Who were the first artist to work with the portable video equipment soon after its appearance?
- Nam June Paik, Les Levine and Andy Warhol.

4. Which companies introduced the digital camera onto the American market, and in what year did this occur?
- Sony and Canon, in 1997.

Morocco

Four More Questions- Olivia Rice

1. How did action artists use their bodies in their work?

Actions artists focused on their bodies as aesthetic material, projection surfaces, and indicators of mental states. 

       Pg 13 

2. Why did artist use video feedback technology in the 1970s?

        Video feedback technology was an important system by which artists could reflect upon themselves and the viewer’s   position, as well as that of the electronic media. 

       Pg 12

3. What were some ways that live video feedback was used?

        Bruce Nauman and Dan Graham used live video feedback in installations, Dan Graham used it in a series of experiments to show viewers his or her own presence, and many artists use it to monitor and supervise people and areas.   

        Pg 16

4. What is the conventional perspective of film?

       Films are often associated with dark theatres and large screens that put consumers under a spell of perfect illusionism. 

       Pg 21

Allison Questions 2

What has been the greatest change since the emergence of Video art?
The step from analogue to digital image production. The technical process, whether analogue or digital, attests to the fact that the video picture is a procedural, non-discrete image type; the image is permanently in the process of forming or dissipating and doesn't show the film-reel,s static single image.


What artists worked with portable video equipment immediately after it appeared?
Nam June Paik, Les Levine, and Andy Warhol.

Video art,s initial phase occurred during a period that included what movements?
Anti-war protests, the student movement, feminism, and the liberation movement of black America: A period of social and political renewal.

What were major thematic emphases?
the conceptual development of models of time and space, as well as the human body as material.

Next 4 questions -- Rebecca

Who were the first people to work with portable video cameras?
-Nam June Paik, Les Levine, and Andy Warhol

How did artists use technology to change the video playback?
-They used magnets and synthesisers

Why was the Howard Wise Gallery important to the development of film?
-They presented the first thematic presentations and later created a sales organisation for the artist's videos

Which were the first companies to release digital cameras and why did that change the future of film?
-Sony and Cannon in 1997 released cameras which used binary code instead of magnetic code to record video which allowed for smoother video and also new forms of editing

who is Piplotti rist and diana Thater?

Who is Mona Hatoum?

What did Eisenstein, Meliès, and Griffit provided to the development of film and video? Why were them important?

What happened in PlayHouse?

FIona Tan

Architecture Biennale - Fiona Tan (NOW Interviews)

FIONA TAN - TOMORROW

Excerpt: Fishtank by Richard Billingham (1998)

“Ray” by Richard Billingham

Short interview with photographer Richard Billingham

Richard Billingham

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

some news about the course

Dear Students, I would like to inform you that the final exhibition is taking place December the 1st!

further informations will follow!
Please check often the class blog!

Remind to take the footage shot by you to start editing your personal project/s

Read the introduction page 10-13 (except body and performance) and write 4 questions related to the text.

Tomorrow you should start to export the footage already edited to put in the one channel video for the final exhibition. 

Have you shot a video to the letters of "Misericordia" installation during the last two weeks?