My Video Art

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12 of 12 short artists - Toni Dove

Toni Dove is a New York based artist that works primarily in electronic and interactive media. She is considered to be on of the pioneers of interactive media. What interactive media is all about is it involves computer programing and the text or whatever the program is involving moves when the artist tell it to move. that is why it is called interactive media. For example if the artist gives the text a command the text moves. one of the things that she is most famous for is spectropia. At the bottom is a still photo of a piece that uses video motion censers in order to move.

11 of 12 short artists - John Whitney

John Whitney

John Whitney, Sr. was born on April 8, 1917 and past on September 22, 1995. He was an American animator, composer and inventor, he is considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. He lived and worked on his animation in era where there weren't so many advances in animated technology. He would do everything in step by step. He would take a still photo  and then move whatever he was using and then take another still and so on and so on, and then combined them to make an animation. He is considered to be one of the fathers of animation, because he worked on some really big projects. He used his mechanical animation techniques to make some of the first animated commercials, and also used in television episodes.

10 of 12 short artists -Tony Oursler

 Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler is a multimedia and installation artist.  He is well known for his hand made pieces of art. By hand made i mean that he sets up his videos up by hand and makes videos. He has done some exhibition where his projections are projected onto broken glass. The glass is what makes it a "hand made" video. He uses a projector and instead of a screen he uses different medians. In this case he is using glass. He has also used many other things like in New Zealand he Projected a massive skull onto one of their beautiful landscapes. People see these massive projections as great work and i can see why.

9 of 12 short artists - Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney born on March 25, 1967 is an American artist. He is a versatile artist that does pieces of art work in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. He first started doing work were he combined sculptural installations with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, which was a five film series described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."

^{Drawing Restraint is an ongoing work. So basically what it is, is the body's muscle only grows with resistance. The body encounters resistance and the muscle breaks becomes stronger when it heals. So Barney created a film of this resistance occurring when he works on a piece.}

8 of 12 short artists - Mariko Mori

 Mariko Mori

Mariko Mori is a video and photographic Japanese artist. She first started studying  at the Bunka fashion college were she worked as a fashion model in the 1980's. Here much of her work was all about her. She took charge of her work and she was meant to be the main part of her work. She took control of her role in her work. An example of this is in the work she did called Play With Me. Here she takes on a role of an exotic alien in every day scenes. Here she is in front of a store and she is really into her character. not like many models that just get into character for a shot and then stop. She is in character through out her entire work.

Play With Me

She uses both Eastern mythology and western culture and intertwines them together in her work. She later moved to London to study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. She has now let go of the realistic urban scenes and is now using more alien landscaping.  

7 of 12 short artists - Nam June Paik

 Nam June Paik

Nam June Pain was born in Korea on July 20, 1932 and past on January 29, 2006. Although he was born in Korea he was considered an American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first Video Artist. Early on in his life he was going to become a musician but soon saw that it wasn't for him. He began participating in the Neo-Data movement. His first exhibit was known as Exposition of Music- Electronic Television. His title indicates that he is transitioning from music to electronic television.

When he first exhibited his work it took place in a small location. People that went to see the art took nothing more than a glance at a room with TV sets. Now this is looked at as the starting point of  video art. He has done many pieces integrating television sets in most of his pieces. He has created everything from videos to sculptures made up of television sets. He created the Robot Family, and also created a turtle made up of entirely television sets. As he first started since he didn't have any of high technical software we have now to manipulate video, he would distort the image of an ongoing program with magnets. So that's how he started and later on moved on as technology progressed.

6 of 12 short artists - Bruce Nauman

 Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. He truly is a versatile artist because he works with all different types of this from Sculpture, neon, video, performance, photography, drawing, to printmaking. He is truly an artist to be reckon with. He likes to use a lot of play on words in his pieces such as his piece... \/

He likes to manipulate words and he loves how as an artist he can not only manipulate the words but also his viewers. He can make them feel and think a certain way just by looking at his art. Another piece that i really liked was the Human Need Desire piece. It is another neon piece that uses words as a form of art. It creates a form of desire and makes the viewer think of their wildest dreams and what they want. Once again he is not only manipulating the art but the person as well.

5 of 12 short artists - Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas is considered to be one of the most influential and important female video and performing artist to emerge from the late 1960's. One of her pieces that i really personally liked is the Juniper Tree exhibition. This exhibition is a sort of 3D scrapbook. It tells the story of the old fairy tale once told by the brothers Grim. It is a story about the different sides women have to show. It is about a malicious stepmother who is jealous about her step son that is going to inherit the families money and land. So she has a girl of her own and then kills her stepson so her daughter could inherit all  of the riches. Then through the love of the step son's mother he is resurrected and the step mother is killed. 

This exhibition shows and tells the story of the Juniper Tree. It tells the story with different parts of the tail for example it has a box with knives, and that signifies when the boy was killed by his stepmother. He was beheaded while reaching into a box for an apple. The stepmother dropped the heavy box top onto the boy chopping his head off. This is a really interesting piece because it shows the true type of person she is. She is a real feminist and shows it through her work.  

   

4 of 12 short artist - Gary Hill

 Gary Hill

Gary Hill is a video artist that is recognized for incorporating text into his videos. His videos offer a bizarre form of art in my opinion. Especially his piece called Happenstance (part on of many parts). This video has text integrated into the video and there is also a voice in the background throughout the entire video. The integration of text, video, music, and the voice forms together into something that to me seems more like a poem. The reason i get the impression of it being like a poem is because it repeats its self a lot of times saying the same thing in different ways. The reason why i think this piece is really interesting is because the text isnt just there placed and then taken off. The text actually has a reason in the video and is part of the video and takes different shapes and forms with, or against the beat of the music. This is a really interesting artist with a lot of great pieces.

3 of 12 short artist - Bill Viola

Bill  Viola was born on January 25, 1951. He is a contemporary video artist. He uses video, sound and new media, and is considered a leader in those who use this in there art pieces. He does work that focuses on human fundamentals such as birth, and death. He also does some pieces on human emotion. There is a set of four different videos that compose one piece that deal with that human aspect on of them is of five actors being astonished. He slows the video way down so the viewer can see how the emotion of the actors changes in detail.

Another one of his videos is called "The Greeting" in this video it is also slowed down in order to show the emotion of the people greeting each other. This video has no noise, but that might allow you to add you noise in the background. So that is a bit about bill viola.

THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD

Jon Thomson was born in London in 1969 and Alison Craighead was born in scotland in 1971. They have been working together since 1993 and they are artists that use video, sound and the internet to show how we view the world in this technological filled world. They use real time feeds in their art work. Such as from a search ingine or from a chat room and input these feeds into their art. Thomson teaches at the spade school of fine art in London and Craighead is a teacher at Goldsmiths University in London.

Decorative Newsfeed: This piece was created in 2009 and much like the Flat World and many of their other pieces they use a live feed of news headlines. These headlines come in and a projected onto a screen and the headlines move around forming different shapes. They can move in smooth beautiful formations or in sharp shapes. Can you imagine seeing the headline " Dozens of American soldiers wounded in Iran"  in a beautiful graceful swirl shape. This kinda reminds me of somebody yelling at you but they have a smile on their face. So i thought this piece was really interesting.

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnews.html


Flat World:This piece was created in 2008, the first time i watched this i watched it on my little 10 inch laptop and for some reason my heart was pounding quite fast. This Flat World piece is a series of satellite shots from all over the world, and integrated is the voice of different peoples blogs. This piece has the voice of people all around the world from a young girl who is confused about life and cant wait to grow up. She has small problems but sees them as the biggest problems in the world. To a man who hasn't had sex in 1665 days. To a woman living in Iran constantly living in fear of a bombing. Never being able to let her guard down, she even has trouble sleeping. To a man fool of philosophical questions. This piece really made me feel something i don't know what but it was something.

  http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flat_earth.html


Beacon : The Beacon first started broadcasting at midnight January 1, 2005. What this is, is a live ffed of things that people are searching on the web and it is projected onto a screen in a gallery. there is also an online version that can be seen anytime. This piece is really interesting because it gives you an insight of what people are searching up on the web, but you will never know who that person is. It broadcasts searches from all around the world in real time. It lets you go into the mind of the searcher and lets you create your own story about that person. You can come up with your own conclusion of what that person is like just by seeing that one word on the projection. You will never know who he or she is or why they are searching what they are searching, but you can let your imagination run wild, and isnt that the true meaning of art? To let the audience come up with their own story behind the piece.

http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/thomson_craighead.html