Reading Response #3 Video Art
According to Sean Cubitt, Video art is an art form that uses video, light, and sound as a medium. Making it artistic almost like a film. According to Lea Collet, Bruce Nauman was one of people who created video art by filming himself, using himself as a material for art purpose. In Lea Collect’s paper, there was many artists that showed examples of video art which was interesting for me to read and see. In Lea Collet’s reading, there was some artists that used lights as their focus for video art and some others used rhythms and sounds as their main focus. It was clear that video art opened the door for many artists to start using video as a creative process to create art.
In Sean Cubitt’s reading, it talked about the origin of art and how it entered into our world by people discovering they can use outline and reflection as an art before they even realized what it meant. I liked this sentence in the reading “The world we see is but a reflection of a reality that escapes its reflections.” Because it accurately described what art world is all about.
I would like to think that art is a reflection of what artist see in their own perspective of the world. I think many artists have their own way to express themselves with what works for them.
Nam June Paik. He discovered video art by actually using televisions itself as art. Showing videos on them but using TVs as part of his artworks.
Dan Graham would record his audience and display them on tv screen to other audience. Using the idea of using his audience as a part of his art.
Rachel Rose, uses perceptual experiences and would suddenly change the scenery in her video art. Some people would call her video art unsettling because of how it would affect people’s emotions while viewing her video art “Enclosure” that captures a shift in human consciousness.
Cory Arcangel, he uses video games as a part of his video art.
Hito Steyerl, who uses her time in quarantine to create video art that represents the era of never-ending screen time in this society.
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