Video Art Part 1

Video Art

This is the First Television Set in the World: The “Baird Televisor”, An early experimental and demonstration “Baird-type” television receiver with 30 lines, and Nipkow disc which turned with a speed of 750 rpm producing 12 1/2 pictures per second. The motor still runs on a standard 18-volt battery. A spectacular demonstration model of the birth of television!.

1939: RCA Transparent TRK-12 Television at the World's Fair Many people had their first look at television at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. RCA had a number of TRK-12 televisions on display in their impressive exhibit hall that was shaped like a Vacuum Tube. The centerpiece was the Phantom TRK-12 shown above, whose cabinet was made of transparent Lucite. Having the transparent casing convinced skeptics that TV really worked and wasn't all smoke-and-mirrors. The TRK-12 had the CRT facing straight up, and the screen was watched by looking into a mirror.1939 World's FairTRK-12Vacuum TubePhantom TRK-12

The TK-40 and its modified successor, the TK-41, were the first television cameras able to broadcast live color images. Beginning with the "Colgate Comedy Hour" on 11/22/53 these camera were in wide use at TV network and affiliate studios, as well as independent TV production facilities through the 1960's.

Nancy Reagan Waves To Ronald At 1984 Republican Convention Nancy Reagan standing at podium during 1984 Republican National convention waving to image of husband Ron seen on a video screen from his hotel suite in Dallas Texas, (Photo by John Ficara/Woodfin Camp/Woodfin Camp/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Wolf Vostell Dé-coll/ages From 1958 on… Sculpture with TV Wolf Vostell was the first artist in art history to integrate a television set into a work of art. This installation was created in 1958 under the title Cycle Black Room/Deutscher Ausblick ("German view") is now part of the collection of the art museum Berlinische Galerie in Berlin. Early works with television sets are Transmigracion I-III from 1958 and Elektronischer De- coll/age Happening Raum [3], (E.D.H.R), ("Electronic De-coll/age Happening Room"), an Installation, from 1968.Berlinische Galerie [3]Installation

Wolf Vostell 9 No – Dé-coll/ages Film/video performance Vostell's large-scale happening 9 Nein Décollagen (9 No – Dé-coll/ages) took place on 14 September 1963 in nine different locations in Wuppertal, and was organized by the Galerie Parnass. The audience was ferried by bus from location to location, including a cinema that screened Sun in Your Head while people lay on the floor. The film transfers to the moving image Vostell’s principle of ‘Décollage’. While up to then Vostell had altered TV pictures as they were being broadcast, he was now able to compose the temporal sequence. Since no video equipment was available in 1963, Vostell instructed camera-man Edo Jansen to film distorted TV images off the TV screen. The film was re-edited and copied to video in 1967.

Nam June Paik Magnet TV 1965 Magnet with TV and broadcast program

Nam June Paik TV Buddha 1974 closed circuit video installation with bronze sculpture

Nam June Paik Video Flag video installation

Nam June Paik Electronic Superhighway 1995 video installation

Nam June Paik video still from Global Groove 1973 color videotape, sound 30 minutes

Dan Sandin Sandin Analogue Image Processor Analog computer video synthesizer EVL jRzjmcY&feature=relatedhttp:// jRzjmcY&feature=related (1973) (2011) Moog Synthesizer (Demo): y4jQmrek&feature=topics Moog History TvIFtG0

Joan Jonas Vertical Roll 1972 video "In a startling collusion of form and content, Jonas constructs a theater of female identity by deconstructing representations of the female body and the technology of video. Using an interrupted electronic signal -- or "vertical roll" -- as a dynamic formal device, she dislocates space, re-framing and fracturing the image."

Chris Burden Late Night Advertisements (Through the Night Softly) Early 70s Video on Broadcast Television

Bruce Nauman Live-Taped Video Corridor 1970 video installation

Dan Graham Time Delay Room 1974 video camera, video taper, video monitors, mirror The time-lag of eight seconds is the outer limit of the neurophysiological short-term memory that forms an immediate part of our present perception and affects this «from within». If you see your behavior eight seconds ago presented on a video monitor «from outside» you will probably therefore not recognize the distance in time but tend to identify your current perception and current behavior with the state eight seconds earlier. Since this leads to inconsistent impressions which you then respond to, you get caught up in a feedback loop. You feel trapped in a state of observation, in which your self- observation is subject to some outside visible control. In this manner, you as the viewer experience yourself as part of a social group of observed observers [instead of, as in the traditional view of art, standing arrested in individual contemplation before an auratic object].