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FILM 48.02 - Video Art

This is a course guide for FILM 48.02.
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    • Course description
    • Definition for video art (or gallery film)
    • In the Library's collections
    • Introductory reading(s)
    • Selected book title(s)
    • Other library resource(s)
    • Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)
    • Internet resource(s)
    • Citing and Tracking Your Bibliographic References
    • Keeping up with Film Studies journal literature

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Course description

This theory/practice studio course explores the medium of video as an art form. Through a survey of historical and contemporary works, students will examine how history, access, culture and technological shifts have influenced and changed how artists work with the moving image and time-based media. From early portable video rigs and live video to the use of animation, netart, streaming video, and memes, the course will unpack role that film, video, sound, writing, performance, abstraction, installation, structure, streaming and narrative forms have played in their work. Students create individual video projects to develop their artistic voice and point of view; they engage with properties that distinguish video art practices while completing a series of creative experiments in order to develop a personal media vocabulary. Students will use video art to expand our understanding of time, space, sound, representation, and narrative.

[Source: ORC/Catalog, 03/29/2022] Dist:ART

Definition for video art (or gallery film)

Moving-image works exhibited in art gallery or museum spaces rather than in cinema auditoria, the distinction often being characterized as ‘white cube’ (gallery) as against ‘black box’ (cinema). Exhibits of gallery films, which often incorporate multiple screens and sometimes also non-screen media, are normally termed installations rather than screenings, with installation spaces organized so that viewers may come and go as they please, spending as much or as little time as they like with the work. Artists’ moving-image works have featured internationally in galleries since the late 1960s: the pioneering work of the Korean video artist Nam June Paik, for example Global Groove (1973), was made expressly for art spaces. By the 1990s, art galleries had also begun to show earlier experimental 8 mm and 16 mm films that had previously been screened mainly in ‘black-box’-like conditions (in filmmakers’ co-operatives, for instance). In 1996 the Whitney Museum in New York mounted a major retrospective of artists’ films of the 1960s and 1970s, including Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone (1973), an important work of expanded cinema: a moving-image practice aiming to expand vision beyond the single, screened image, expanded cinema constitutes a vital link between avant-garde film and gallery film. Recent years have also seen a marked shift in contemporary art practice towards the moving image, so that many artists who would not necessarily consider themselves filmmakers are now making works that in some way or other incorporate film and/or video.   ...

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Gallery film. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 29 May. 2023

In the Library's collections

You can use one of these subject headings to start your research in the library's online catalog:

  • video art
    This is a subject search in the online catalog.
  • "video art"
    This is a keyword search in the online catalog.
  • projection art

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artA history of video art by Chris Meigh-Andrews
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library N 6494 .V53 M445 2014
    ISBN: 9780857851789
    In addition, the new edition expands and updates the discussion of theoretical concepts and ideas which underpin contemporary artists' video.
  • Cover ArtNew media in late 20th-century art by Michael Rush
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library N 6494 .M78 R88 1999
    ISBN: 9780500203293
    Modern art has radically extended the conventional medium of sculpture and painting. Following on innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarchies of mediums and embraced any means, including technological, which best served their purposes. Furthermore, especially in the last 50 years, time and duration have reinstated narrative back in art: in filmmaking and video, the narrative theatricality of happening, performance and installation art, digitally manipulated photography and virtual reality.
  • Cover ArtScreen time: photography and video art in the internet age by Richard Rinehart, ed.; Phillip Prodger, contributor
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry NX 180 .I57 S36 2022
    ISBN: 9781684484140
    This catalog features a selection of leading international artists who engage with and critique the role of media in contemporary society. Their work demonstrates what has become known as post-internet artistic practices--art that may or may not be made for the internet but nevertheless acknowledges online culture as an omnipresent influence, inseparable from contemporary social conditions. ...
  • Cover ArtVideo art by Michael Rush
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library N 6494 .V53 R87 2007
    ISBN: 9780500284872
    Publication Date: Rev. ed.
    Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-sized buildings or video projections take over the walls of an entire city block. It embraces all the significant art ideas and forms of recent times--from Abstract, Conceptual, Minimal, Performance, and Pop to photography and film. Abundantly illustrated with frames and sequences, this updated edition offers a history of the medium from its early practitioners, such as Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci, who used the video camera as an extension of their own bodies, through the vast array of conceptual, political, personal, and lyrical installations of the 1980s and 1990s by Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mary Lucier, Michal Rovner, and others up to the present day. ...
  • Cover ArtVideo art theory: a comparative approach by Helen Westgeest
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library N 6494 .V53 W47 2016
    ISBN: 9781118475461
    Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art and of the visual mediations we encounter in daily life. A critical investigation of the visual media and selected video artworks which contributes to the understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art.

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artAgainst immediacy: video art and media populism by William Kaizen
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781611689464
    Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which the people were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. ...
  • Cover ArtExpanded cinema: art, performance, film by A. L. Rees; David Curtis; Duncan White; Steven Ball, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A1 E9 2011
    ISBN: 9781854379740
    "Expanded cinema encompasses film, video, performance, and multiple-projection. While video in museums has received considerable attention, experiments beyond the exhibition space have not. Here, leading scholars trace expanded and multi-screen cinema from its origins in early abstract film and the Bauhaus era to postwar happenings and live events in Europe and the United States, the first multimedia experiments of the 1960s, and the fusion of multi-screen art with sonic art and music from the 1970s onward. ...
  • Cover ArtFlesh into light: the films of Amy Greenfield by Robert A. Haller
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .E96 H35 2012
    ISBN: 9781841504889
    Over her more than four-decade career, New York-based filmmaker, performer, and writer Amy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending films which cross the boundaries of experimental film, video art, and multimedia performance--from her feature film, Antigone/Rites Of Passion, to her major new live multimedia work, Spirit in the Flesh. Exploring the dynamism of movement and the resilience of the human spirit, Greenfield creates a new visual and kinetic language of cinema. ...
  • Cover artRumour and radiation: sound in video art by Paul Hegarty
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781623562694
    This is a book about video art, and about sound art. The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing, created an unexpected noise. The early part of the book looks at this formative period and the key figures within it - then jumps to the mid-1990s, when video art has become such a major part of contemporary art production, it no longer seems an autonomous form. ...

Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoCinema and media studies from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Various authors
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Cinema and media studies includes an array of subfields: film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image. ...
  • Harry Gamboa Jr: early Chicano video art by Harry Gamboa, Jr.
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #2929
    As co-founder of the Chicano art group ASCO, Gamboa developed such multi-media forms as the "no-movie" and the "fotonovela," which drew attention to the workings of mass culture. In the mid-1980s, working through cable access, Gamboa produced a series of "conceptual dramas" that explored both stereotypical and traditional notions about the Latino family. In these works, collected here for the first time, Gamboa combined the political influences of the Chicano Movement with the narrative excess of film noir, B-movies, and Mexican telenovelas.
  • Surveying the first decade: video art and alternative media in the U.S. by [Video Data Bank, in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix and Bay Area Video Coalition ...]
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10096
    A comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video in the U.S. between 1968 and 1980.
  • Cover ArtVideo installation from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Johanna Gosse
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    While at first, “video installation” would seem to refer to a particular medium and mode of display, in practice, the term is applied to a range of intersecting media, histories and genres, including but not limited to experimental and expanded cinema, video art, installation art, digital and new media art, and the emergent category of artists’ moving image. In short, “video installation” encompasses an expansive field of moving image practices, formats, and configurations, from multichannel film projection to video sculpture to immersive and interactive media environments. ...

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

You can find scholarly literature for film and television studies in a variety of journals. However, if you want to do targeted searching, you can use a subject specific data such as Film & Television Literature Index. You can also use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Resource logoArt full text by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Offers full text plus abstracts of articles published from 1984-present. Coverage includes all aspects of the Visual Arts & Art History. Indexing includes images and advertisments.
  • Entertainment industry magazine archive
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    An archival resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Resource logoMedia history digital library by Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
    • Open Access Icon
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning.

    The Collection feature extensive runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoWeb of science citation databases by Clarivate
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Internet resource(s)

  • Video Art History Archive
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    ... as film and video technology expanded so did artwork. ...
  • Video Art Movement
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    We now consider Video art to be a valid means of artistic creation with its own set of conventions and history. ...

Citing and Tracking Your Bibliographic References

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