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Master of Electronic Art
Representation and Presentation
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Artists' Work - BD (Before Digitization) Overview Early new media art operated outside the mainstream art scene. 1965 marks a crucial moment when Sony released the first portable video recorder - Portapak in America. It provided the artists with an easy access to new tools of artistic production and facilitated the creation of a new language of representation. These developments were taking place against the background of TV encroaching and taking over the ground that previously belonged to cinema, Many video artists reacted against this development and devised a new model of cinema that rejected its traditionally illusionistic space. Focus was placed on process and the way in which video could access reality. The film loop was a device by which immediate camera feedback - realtime - could be incorporated into the artwork. (Physical space was emphasised and the situating of the body within it). Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik , Billy Kluver, VALIE EXPORT, Vito Acconci, Chris Buren, Ed Emshwiller, Steina & Woody Vasulka, Bruce Nauman, Dara Birnbaum, Andy Warhol, Myron W. Krueger, Peter Weibel
Primary Reading Gaberbocchus Common Room 1957-1959
18 Happenings in 6 parts at the Reuben Gallery, NY in 1959 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engeneering 1966 1971 Steina & Woody Vasulka founded The Kitchen , NY
More Krauss, R 1976 Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism , October, Spring 1976, vol 1, p50-64 Shaw, Jeffrey & Weibel, Peter Future Cinema , The MIT Press, Cambridge/Massachusetts, London/England Russolo, Luigi 1913 The Art of Noise Lacerte, Sylvie Experiments in Art & Technology: a Gap to Fill in Art History's Recent Chronicles , Refresh! Conference 1977 Documenta 6 - international video scene made appearance in Kassel Le Grice, Malcolm 2002 Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age , UC Press, Berkeley Le Grice, pioneer of structural film in the 1970s, account of his experiments in video and computer art. Synopsis Funcke, Bettina Robert Whitman's Telecommunication Projects Graham, Dan TV Camera/Monitor Performance 1970 Gill, Joanna Video: State of the Art Tambellini, Aldo A Brief History of "6673" Wooster, Ann-Sargent 1985 Why Don't They Tell Stories Like They Used To? Fernandez, Maria Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath Dreher, Thomas Valie Export/Peter Weibel. Multimedial feminist art |