Keynotes from chapter one "Shaping a History"
Video art embraces all significant art ideas- abstract, conceptual, minimal, performance, pop art, photography, and digital art.
It is an art of time. Time can be manipulated and used as a medium in and of itself.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti stated in his manifesto 'La Radia' that the radio based technology (television) would replace film and abolish time and space.
Bruce Kurtz stated "Newness, intimacy, immediacy, involvement and a sense of the present tense, are all characteristics of the television medium."
McLuhan- The Media is the Message (I will expand on this in a later post)
Excerpts from the chapter-
"At the birth of Video art, artist turned the camera on themselves (another crucial distinction from television) or on others to investigate new meanings of time and identity or to create new definitions of space and perception in a gallery setting."
"Television is a medium of desire: it creates dreams, answers dreams, sells dreams. It promises to reflect viewers back to themselves, but it ends up bouncing back what they long to see."
Artists to further investigate-
Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, William Anastasi, Woody & Steina Vasulka, Ed Emshwiller, Dan Sandin, Keith Sonnier, Shuya Abe, Robert Zagone, Eric Siegel, Ture Sjolander, Lars Weck, Bengt Modin, Lynn Hershman, Granular Synthesis, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jeffery Shaw, Matthew Barney, & Jean Luc Godard.
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