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.