• ART 436 • Video Art Spring 13

Video Art is a studio course that explores time and technology in the context of image making, performance art, sculpture and story telling. As a technologically driven form of art, video evolves from magnetic signal to digital. The short but rapid development of its features in instant display and image quality has changed the practices of broadcasting in TV, composite effects in film and distribution in the Internet. Nowadays the affordable and ubiquitous video and web distribution democratize the medium to an essential self-expression tool. An incredibly wide range of aesthetics is the by-product of such socio-technological evolution. The class examines this tabloid art form in the early cinema, language and visual semiotics in films, historical and contemporary figures in the arts.

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Saul Bass - Title Champ

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Expanded Cinema - Video art beyond “screen”

“When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded consciousness. Expanded cinema does not mean computer films, video phosphors, atomic light, or spherical projections. Expanded cinema isn’t a movie at all: like life it’s a process of becoming, man’s ongoing historical drive to manifest his consciousness outside of his mind, in front of his eyes. One no longer can specialize in a single discipline and hope truthfully to express a clear picture of its relationships in the environment. This is especially true in the case of the intermedia network of cinema and television, which now functions as nothing less than the nervous system of mankind.”

- Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, 1970

http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/book.pdf

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Content beyond the screen space

Photography and Cinema

Precursor - Photography that challenges the subject-hood of performance and identity Static media - of “performance”

(image above) Tseng Kwong Chi, New York, New York, 1979

from the Self Portrait series 1979-1989

Cindy Sherman http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170

Untitled Film Still #23, 1978

Yasumasa Morimura

Self Portrait - After Greta Gerbo 1, 1996

James Franco as Cindy Sherman in New Film Stills, 2012

Performance Video

1) Documentation purpose

Miranda July, THINGS WE DON’T UNDERSTAND AND DEFINITELY ARE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT, 2006 -

Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965

2) Performance made for video

William Wegman, Two Dogs and Ball, 1972

Colin Self, Miranda July as Colin Self as Joanna Newsom singing Peach, Plum, Pear, 2009

3) Video as aid to the live performance

Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica Futurelab, Apparition, 2012

Device and Functions

1) Subversion of the device’s original functions

Steina Vasulka, Summer Salt, 1982

Steina and Woody Vasulka

2) Formal investigation of apparatus

Rodney Graham, Torqued Chandelier Release, 2004

3) Live Performance

Open Reel Ensemble

4) Invention

Eric Siu, Touchy, 2011-2012

Seriality/Narratives

1) Spatial experience

Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters), 2008-2009

Douglas Gordon, 24-hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and From, 2010

24-hour Psycho, 1993

Douglas Gordon, Through a Looking Glass, 1999

2) Sculptural extension

Site -specific

Jim Campbell, Scattered Light, 2010

Madison Square Park Conservancy

Interactive

Golan Levin, Messa di Voce, 2003

Rafael Lozano-Hammer, Body Movies, 2001

Relational Architecture

Reporters with Borders, 2007

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Video beyond the Screen

+sculpture

[nam jun paik]

early work

http://www.paikstudios.com/gallery/6.html

the more the better

http://www.paikstudios.com/gallery/10.html

venus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP03QNPvs80

[tim hawkinson]

self portrait

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/tim-hawkinson

+performance

[wynne greenwood]

[tracy and the plastics]

http://www.tracyandtheplastics.com/livevideo.html

+installation / site specific

[bruce nauman]

walking in an exaggerated manner around the perimeter of a square

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qml505hxp_c

corridor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrqXiqgQBo

[tony oursler]

influence machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvzArly7Km8

symetrical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYaVAPvNh0

+multichannel

[dan shiffman]

run lola run

http://www.shiffman.net/2007/03/27/runlolarun/

http://www.shiffman.net/2007/08/25/run-lola-run-lola-run-lola-run/

+web art / other …

[Bureau of Inverse Technology]

http://www.bureauit.org/

[bangbang]

http://www.bureauit.org/bangbang/

[geoffrey lillemom]

oculart

http://www.oculart.com/

http://www.oculart.com/old/new/

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AFTER EFFECTS CS5 Shortcuts

Adobe's Help link to AE shortcuts

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Beck worked with more than 160 musicians to reimagine David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" in this interactive 360° web experience directed by Chris Milk, via the Lincoln Motor Company.

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The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu

Montages and editing.

[escapekit]

College for Creative Studies’ PSA Campaign

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Debate Breath, 2004

Analysis of the 2004 presidential debate. Extraction of all the silent moments.

In total, 1193 silences detected by custom software.  Duration 10 minutes, 32 seconds.

Body language experts say 93% of communication is non-verbal. My opinion of who won this debate changed after seeing this version.

http://www.davidtinapple.com/

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Project 2 Reference

[Virgil Widrich] Fast Film, 2003 (Part 1)

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Project 2 Reference

[Virgil Widrich] Fast Film, 2003 (Part 2)

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Project 2 Reference

[Virgil Widrich] Fast Film, 2003

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Screen Resolutions

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Victoria Fu

http://www.victoriafu.com/

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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)

Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, so masterfully realized in two iconic examples, Dr. Caligari (1920) and Metropolis (1927), had a lasting impact on visual culture, giving rise to such popular genres as film noir, horror, and science fiction. Filmmakers Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang drew upon the broader Expressionist movement, which emerged in the 1910s and encompassed literature, theater, dance, and the graphic arts. The installation includes projected sequences, vintage posters, and set stills from these two iconic films, as well as selected prints from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection demonstrating the stark black-and-white contrasts, off-kilter compositions, and exaggerated gestures that found their way from page to screen during the Weimar Republic (1919–33). The Expressionist legacy continues to inspire the imaginations of filmmakers, graphic novelists, and artists today.

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depth of field

Citizen Kane, 1941