Well that goes back again to the fundamental
questions: What is art? What isn’t art? Who gets to decide? Who gets to decide who can decide? How is the decision made? What criteria will be used to decide? Who decides on the criteria? Who has to agree? Who is allowed to disagree? Labels are always problematic, even though
they are often convenient. Expert consensus seems to be the most
frequently applied and accepted means of decision making, most of the time, for
most people. But expert consensus is open to the same kind of questioning. i.e. Who is an expert? Who decides? Do all
the experts have to agree? What if they disagree? Which expert is right? Can
they all be right? Can they all be wrong? How many experts need to agree before
there is ‘consensus’? I have been reading way too much Foucault! Allan From: owner- Thinking about this again, maybe we
could make a distinction between “video art” (Paik and others who use the tools
of video to make things that present as objects or performances―esp stuff that
you couldn’t, for instance, easily put in their entirety on a DVD or tape); and
“art video,” which would include stuff like Barney and Viola. Does this make
sense? One tends to be about the medium; the other uses the medium. Well I guess to me video art is tv
without commercials. Haha. But I suppose usually it’s used to mean video used
to make something besides narrative, which to some degree wd leave Viola
out, but he shouldn’t be left out, so maybe one could say, video that occurs
outside the usual means of dissemination of television and movies, which would
mean that playing Bollywood videos or episodes of I Dream of Jeannie in a
context of heightened attention would constitute video art. Hello everybody, I've recently bought Matthew Barney's DVD
"Cremaster 3" and saw many reviews claims that it's "video
art". I know that Nam June Paik is always associated with this term and
sometimes called "Father of Video Art", Some of Paiks' works
are in strict film form (i.e. Zen Film) and some of them are like installation
art (i.e. TV Garden, TV Cello), does both count as video art? |
Title: Re: FLUXLIST: What is Video Art?
- FLUXLIST: What is Video Art? Vai Becker Jason Steve
- RE: FLUXLIST: What is Video Art? Allan Revich
- Re: FLUXLIST: What is Video Art? Ann Klefstad
- Re: FLUXLIST: What is Video Art? Ann Klefstad
- RE: FLUXLIST: What is Video Art? Allan Revich
- Re: FLUXLIST: What is Video Art? Ann Klefstad
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