Notes:
Video arrived in the mid 20th century and film was suddenly not the only means of creating moving images.
In 1965 Sony Corporation introduced the Portapak, a handheld video camera and portable video recorder — 1/2in. tape as opposed to 2in. tape used for broadcast TV — brought ease, mobility, and affordability to video production — by 1968 exhibitions of video art internationally.
Video is a new medium (only 55+ years as opposed to thousands of years of drawing, painting, sculpture) — Difficult to categorize since there are no official schools of video, like the Impressionists or the Abstract Expressionists, just themes.
Video is an 'Art of time' used to extend, repeat, fast forward, and slow down time — new way of telling a story, non-linear video loops.
Early video pioneers in the 60s and 70s used video as another material (like paint and canvas, or marble) to execute an idea — artists used whatever material they were interested in.
General Categories of Video Art:
-Recording "mixed media" performances
-Extension of the body
-Technological advances
-Interactivity
-Surveillance
-Critique of commercial television or film
-Time-based ("moving") painting or drawing
Origin of film/video
*Thomas Edison “Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnOpDWSbyw
1940's
*Maya Deren 1943 “Meshes of the Afternoon” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S03Aw5HULU
1950’s
*Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenburg, film, 1951 “Jackson Pollock” http://www.ubu.com/film/namuth_pollock.html
*John Cassavettes “Shadows”, film, 1959 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JMuLsGPp-k
Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie “Pull My Daisy” 1959
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8jz8fgN-QM part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqyNVi61cI8 part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b618uHPB1zA part 3
1960’s
Stan Brakhage “Dog Star Man”, film, 1963 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGdGgQtZic&fmt=18 (prelude)
*1959 "Window Water Baby Moving" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drSrvTtZ1k part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxE3rI-LWm4 part 2
*1963 "Mothlight" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaezt80Sm1A
*Jack Smith “Flaming Creatures” 1963 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIxr5_nyUg part 1
Shirley Clarke “The Cool World”, VCA 3729 1963 excerpt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXz9oDt7Ew 1967
*Andy Warhol “WARHOL's CINEMA - A Mirror for the Sixties (1989)” http://www.ubu.com/film/warhol_cinema.html
“Outer and Inner Space” 1965 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ck4fz7eBQ
*Michael Snow 1967 “Wavelength” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3009876496807585942
The Black Panthers “What We Want” late 60’s/early 70’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mpFCtftF7c (Roz Payne and Newsreel)
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