Bibliography:
Articles:
1. Cotter, Holland. "Art - Video Art Thinks Big - That%u2019s Showbiz - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 6 Jan. 2008. Web. 27 Apr. 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/design/06cott.html>.
2. Shaw, Anny. "Fast Forward Video Art." The Art Newspaper. 4 Mar. 2011. Web. 27 Apr. 2011.
Books:
1. Elwes, Catherine, and Shirin Neshat. Video Art a Guided Tour. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. Print.
2. Rush, Michael. Video Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. Print.
Websites:
1. http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/videoart/
Summary:
· Taking a look at Video Art through the ages and taking a hard glance at where it seems to be going.
· Comparing the Analog forms of video manipulation like in the Video Art film we saw with the hippie-dude making the red/green/blue effects and looking at how top programmers like Ryan Geiss accomplishes it today with programs like Milkdrop, Drempels and hardware like the XBOX Kinect.
· Showing that is fundamentally easier today using modern technology and these advanced programming shader languages than it is to manipulate using Analog, and comparing the pros and cons of both.
· Modern media and culture has lead us to a “Trippy Era” where to use different colors and effects to advertise with, display visual effects in movies, and even dance to at modern day clubs.
The hippy dude is Professor Emeritus Dan Sandin of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory in the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to focus on psychedelic art, could also explore links to ancient geometries and fractal mathematics.
In video art, some primitive effects were explored as part of the technical science of electronic video (for more relevant examples look back at the videos in Surveying the first decade [videorecording] : video art and alternative media in the U.S. / produced by Video Data Bank. Available in the library and at
Video Data Bank
Program 5: Performance of Video-Imaging Tools
1:54:05
Calligrams, Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1970, 04:00 (excerpted from 12:00)
Illuminatin' Sweeney, Skip Sweeney, 1975, 05:00, (excerpted from 28:38)
Video Weavings, Stephen Beck, 1976, 04:06 (excerpted from 28:00)
Five-minute Romp through the IP, Dan Sandin, 1973, 06:34
Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle in Front of Triangle, Dan Sandin, 1973, 01:40
Video-Taping, Ernest Gusella, 1974, 02:41
Exquisite Corpse, Ernest Gusella, 1978, 08:23
Einstine, Eric Siegel, 1968, 05:22
General Motors, Phil Morton, 1976, 10:25 (excerpted from 1:00:00)
Merce by Merce by Paik, Nam June Paik, 1978, 27:27
Crossings and Meetings, Ed Emshwiller, 1974, 04:04 (excerpted from 27:33)
Complex Wave Forms, Ralph Hocking, 1977, 04:11 (excerpted from 05:00)
Pictures of the Lost, Barbara Buckner, 1978, 08:04 (excerpted from 23:00)
Video Locomotion (man performing forward hand leap) , Peer Bode, 1978, 04:56
Music on Triggering Surfaces, Peer Bode, 1978, 03:06
C-Trend, Woody Vasulka, 1974, 07:19 (excerpted from 09:00)
Switch! Monitor! Drift!, Steina Vasulka, 1976, 03:48