Friday 8 May, 7 p.m.
Admission is FREE and open to the public
Starz Film Center @ the Tivoli
900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, CO 80204
Featuring the work of:
Lori Clark
Sarah H. Chung
Jeromie Dorrance
Justin D. Eddings
Austin Foster
Susan Hazaleus
Luke Hopkins
Brian Keeley
Melannie Martsolf
Robert Nachman
Derek Osterlund
Jon Pettit
Michael Sadowski
Juried by Casey Koehler and Mia Semingson
Brought to you by:
MSCD Digital Art + New Endeavors Regarding Digital Art
for additional information - rdolan4@mscd.edu
for our last project we are going to be making short works of video art. many of you have already begun to work in a time-based fashion with your other projects, so video should be a natural progression. for digital artists, working with video is a fundamental skill today. at the venice biennale in 2007, video dominated the pavilions-there were more works of video art than any other medium. so we know that it is powerful and popular. let’s consider its beginnings in contemporary art.
here is one of my favorite early works by gary hill (because the audio and video are inseparable).
and another here, makes great use of image + wireframe and simple layers.
here is bill viola again, many years later, talking about his collaboration with n.i.n.
another important thing to consider about video art is that it developed and grew right alongside performance art thru the 80s and 90s. here is one of my favorite performance artists coco fusco discussing her use of video with performance.
in 1970 gene youngblood wrote an influential book titled expanded cinema. in the book youngblood called for cinema to expand, meaning that artists should pursue new and innovative approaches to the scene of viewing. he was the first author to consider video as an art form, and was influential in establishing the field of media arts. In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. He describes various types of filmmaking utilising new technology, including film special effects, computer art, video art, multi-media environments and holography. one of the best artist to hear this call is krystof wodiczko. check out his projection in hiroshima. beautiful.
so we already have this history of video art not only challenging contemporary art, but also expanding itself into more and more spaces, like his public projections. where are we now with the net? remember when bill viola said that the goal of all technology is to become invisible? here is another paperrad vid that makes use of net culture and pop culture.
with youtube, we can access an unbelievable amount of video. i like to use mediaconverter.org. but there are a ton of these sites. you can find them by searching for “youtube conversion” or “youtube download.” remember that you want to make the file conversion from flv to mov.
