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
sabato 3 dicembre 2016
mercoledì 23 novembre 2016
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
lunedì 21 novembre 2016
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
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
lunedì 14 novembre 2016
martedì 8 novembre 2016
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?
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.
- 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.
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.
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
-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
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