Video art: Type of artwork which began in New York in the mid-1960s, made on videotape usually for viewing on a television screen. Since video is an electronic medium rather than a style, the results tend to be almost as varied as the artists using it. To generalize: as with performance art, the early conceptual phase of the 1970s has given way to a Post-Modernist phase (using the mass media 'from within') in the late 1980s and 1990s. Rock and music videos sometimes owe a lot to video art (and more recently, vice versa).
Reference: faculty.ksu.edu.sa/aljarf/Research%20Library/Technology%20ERIC%20Abstracts/ART%20TERMINOLOGY.doc
Timeline:
1970: First exhibition of video art (London)1973: Whitney biennial shows video art
1974: MOMA establishes video department
1996: HDTV!!!!!!
A few artists:
I really only like Nam June Paik, because of his great instillations. Video art only works, in my opinion, if the instillation is good. I also don't like the creepy feel I sometimes get with the other artists. His work is much more colorful and abstract.
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