1. Technology and techniques and Practitioners past and present
Unit 35: Producing Video Installation

2. ‘Artists have used the camera, the screen and the space in between’
(Ed.) Comer, S, Film and video art Tate Publishing, 2009, London

3. How would you install the following films;
Imagine that you are setting up a film or video in an exhibition space. You can access any type of projection/screen/imaging device which exists and would play your film/video.
How would you install the following films;
Hollis Frampton – Nostalgia
Andy Warhol – 8 hour film of the Empire State Building
Sam Taylor-Wood – ‘David’

4. Early image installation…
Magic Lanterns

5. First film screening: Lumiere Brothers
Lumiere brothers held the first public film screening in 1895 Ten short films Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines, Paris

6. Showing films in Cinemas

7. Showing films in Art Galleries
Fiona Tan Saint Sebastien

8. Vito Acconci Command Performance Technique: CCTV live feed
CCTV Camera
Live feed of the person sat on the stool
Updated exhibition of the work
TV monitor showing the artist, asking the person sat on the stool to ‘perform’
Command Performance
Technique: CCTV live feed
Technology: TV monitors

9. Bill Viola
Triptych (depicting a Birth, a dream state and a person dying) Technique: Splitting screen Technology: Projector, screen

10. A quick reminder of THAT shower scene….

11. Douglas Gordon
24 Hour Psycho Technique: Duration – the film Psycho slowed down to fit into 24 hours Technology: Projection screen

12. Matt Mullican
Film of artist, hypnotised and moving around his studio
View from artists hand-held camera
Psycho Architecture Technique: Multi-screen Technology: TV monitors / screens + headphones

13. Technology Projectors and screens TV monitors Flat screens
iPod, iPads etc
Speakers vs headphones
Motion sensors to track the movement of an audience

14. In order to prepare for your magazine article….
1. Write up your notes from this discussion and put onto Weebly.
Choose two artists whose work and techniques interest you. Do further research into them, their video work, and how it is installed.
Find images and video clips to add to your research.
2. Write a list of all the types of technology that you could use for installing a video. Add to Weebly with images.