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