Video Art Lecture
Un Chien Analou By Director Louis Bunuel and Written by Bunuel and Salvador Dali Silent Surrealist Film No Plot Based on two dreams had by Bunuel “the pure and correct line of ‘conduct’ of a human who pursues love through wretched humanitarian, patriotic ideals and the other miserable workings of reality.”
Bill Viola Video Artist Human Consciousness – Birth Life Death “Visual Songs” Emotional States Most work done “in camera”
Martha Rosler Feminist Artist – Video, Photo Collage, and Photo-text Work about the “everyday” through the perspective of a woman Often Focuses of Media and War – Contrasting daily life with War Semiotics of the Kitchen – Anti Julia Child approach
Tony Oursler Works Installation with projections Found Objects- Furniture or “scarecrow” like structures Plays with viewers levels of empathy Inanimate/Animate Objects Aims to make the Physiological Real
Matthew Barney Cremaster Cycles “The project is filled with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation: Cremaster 1 represents the most "ascended" or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 the most "descended" or differentiated.” 5 Films total – Longest being cremaster 3 which is 3 hours Formally married to Bjork, directed many of her music videos
Shana Molton Works in an “alter ego state” Green screen “with appropriated new-age marginalia, prescription drugs, and beauty products assembled into a whimsical scene of feminine anxiety” – wikiappropriated Alter Ego named Cynthia, Her physical aliments seem to live only in her mind
Ryan Trecartin Some say the most important up and coming contemporary artist of “our time” Solo shows at Lacma and PS1 Anti Traditionalist “Trecartin’s work becomes an uncanny reflection of youth culture, presenting a Gen Y zeitgeist of commodity anxiety, spiritual nihilism, and community value. “ 1 RISD ‘04
Other Video Artists Bjorn Melhus Pipiloti Rist Nam June Paik Doug Aitken Christian Maclay Peter Sarkisian Miranda July Mindy Faber Dara Birnbaum Mika Rottenberg Mindy Faber Malena Barnhart
Performance Artists who work in Video Sometimes Vito Acconci Eleanor Antin Chris Burden Valie Export ( Feminist Artist My New Fave ) Yoko Ono