Video Art, part 3

Video & Performance Art in the 60s & 70s

Video & Performance Art Performance art was born in New York in the 60s as the result of cross fertilization between theater, dance, film, video and visual art. Some well known artists who worked in this medium: Joan Jonas Nam June Paik Vito Acconci Chris Burden Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman – Video Artist American artist born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking and performance.

Bruce Nauman - Performance Art Walking in an Exaggerated Manner by Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman - Performance Art Art 21, Bruce Nauman

What is Installation Art? An artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space.

Examples of Installation Art Zero1 Garage Exhibit, San Jose, 2012

Video Installation Art Is a type of installation art in which video is an integral component. Zero1 Garage Exhibit, San Jose, 2012

TV Buddha, Nam June Paik, 1974, video installation

Vito Acconci (b. 1940) A New York-based visual artist Began his career in late 60s as a poet & writer Transformed himself into a performance and video artist by using his own body as a subject for photography, video, etc.

Vito Acconci (b. 1940) Theme Song, 1973

Vito Acconci (b. 1940)

Chris Burden (b. 1946) Born in Boston An American artist who specializes in sculpture, video and performance art In the 70s made a series of controversial performa-nces in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central Provocative, radical work

“Trans-Fixed” Performance, 1974 Chris Burden (b. 1946) “Trans-Fixed” Performance, 1974

Chris Burden (b. 1946) “Shoot” Performance, 1971

Chris Burden (b. 1946)

Reenactment of Shoot Reenactment of Chris Burden’s performance “Shoot” in Second Life by Eva and Franco Mattes, 2007

Video: The New Wave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLgVGYmOg5o&feature=related