Notes:
Video arrived in the mid 20th century and film was suddenly not the only means of creating moving images.
In 1965 Sony Corporation introduced the Portapak, a handheld video camera and portable video recorder — 1/2in. tape as opposed to 2in. tape used for broadcast TV — brought ease, mobility, and affordability to video production — by 1968 exhibitions of video art internationally.
Video is a new medium (only 55+ years as opposed to thousands of years of drawing, painting, sculpture) — Difficult to categorize since there are no official schools of video, like the Impressionists or the Abstract Expressionists, just themes.
Video is an 'Art of time' used to extend, repeat, fast forward, and slow down time — new way of telling a story, non-linear video loops.
Early video pioneers in the 60s and 70s used video as another material (like paint and canvas, or marble) to execute an idea — artists used whatever material they were interested in.
General Categories of Video Art:
-Recording "mixed media" performances
-Extension of the body
-Technological advances
-Interactivity
-Surveillance
-Critique of commercial television or film
-Time-based ("moving") painting or drawing
Origin of film/video
*Thomas Edison “Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnOpDWSbyw
1920's
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí "Un Chien Andalou" 1929 http://vimeo.com/18540575
1940's
*Maya Deren “Meshes of the Afternoon” 1943 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S03Aw5HULU
1950’s
*Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenburg, film, 1951 “Jackson Pollock” http://www.ubu.com/film/namuth_pollock.html
*John Cassavettes “Shadows”, film, 1959 Opening scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPUFstjELK0
Bedroom scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JMuLsGPp-k
Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie “Pull My Daisy” 1959
*http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/pullmydaisy.mp4
1960’s
Stan Brakhage “Dog Star Man”, film, 1963 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGdGgQtZic&fmt=18 (prelude)
1959 "Window Water Baby Moving" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drSrvTtZ1k part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxE3rI-LWm4 part 2
1963 "Mothlight" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaezt80Sm1A
*1981 The Garden of Earthly Delights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ovtSDWYRQ
*1987 The Dante Quartet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az13qB_AUIo
*Jack Smith “Flaming Creatures” 1963 http://www.ubu.com/film/smith-jack_flaming.html
Shirley Clarke “The Cool World”, VCA 3729 1963 excerpt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXz9oDt7Ew
Andy Warhol “WARHOL's CINEMA - A Mirror for the Sixties (1989)” http://www.ubu.com/film/warhol_cinema.html
*“Outer and Inner Space” 1965 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX-1VxYGYPo
*Michael Snow 1967 “Wavelength” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3009876496807585942
*The Black Panthers “What We Want” late 60’s/early 70’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mpFCtftF7c (Roz Payne and Newsreel)
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