Video art
Contents
Artists, collectives, events
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Artists (cont.)
Peggy Ahwesh, Francis Alÿs, Atlas Group, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben Ner, Sadie Benning, Dara Birnbaum, Colin Campbell, Peter Campus, Aleesa Cohene, Phil Collins, Omer Fast, Fischli & Weiss, General Idea, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Halflifers, Mike Kelley, Michael Klier, Sharon Lockhart, Deirdre Logue, Paul McCarthy, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Muntadas, Annabel Nicholson, Dennis Oppenheim, Charlemagne Palestine, Paper Tiger Television, Lis Rhodes, Christoph Schlingensief, John Smith, Lisa Steele, Surveillance Camera Players, Sam Taylor-Wood, Ryan Trecartin, Hannah Wilke, Artur Żmijewski.
Archives and distributors
Links point to online catalogues.
- Filmform, Stockholm, est 1950. Dir. Anna-Karin Larsson.
- Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley/Cal., est 1966.
- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, est 1967.
- Anthology Film Archives, New York, est 1970. Dir. John Mhiripiri.
- Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, est 1971.
- Experimental Television Center (ETC), Owego/NY, est 1971.
- Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, est c1971.
- Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Arcueil/FR, est 1971.
- Heure Exquise! Centre international pour les arts vidéo, Mons en Baroeul/FR, est 1975.
- Video Data Bank (VDB), Chicago, est 1976.
- Image Forum, Tokyo, est 1977.
- Hallwalls video collection, Buffalo/NY, since 1977.
- Vtape, Toronto, est 1980.
- Video Out Distribution, Vancouver, est 1980.
- Light Cone, Paris, est 1982.
- Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, est 1983.
- AV-arkki. Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, Helsinki, est 1989.
- sixpackfilm, Vienna, est 1990.
- Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels, est 1992.
- Re:Voir, Paris, est 1994.
- Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal, est 1997.
- LUX artists' moving image, London, est 2002.
- Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles, est 2003. Dir. Cindy Keefer.
- Hamaca, Barcelona, est 2005.
- imai – inter media art institute, Düsseldorf, est 2006.
- LIMA, Amsterdam, est 2013. Formerly NIMk. Dir. Gaby Wijers.
- Dinamo distribution network of artists' moving image organizations.
Publications
Exhibition catalogues
- TV as a Creative Medium, New York: Howard Wise Gallery, 1969, [8] pp. Commentary: Sturken (Afterimage 1984).
- Video Circuits, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, 1973, 21 pp.
- Video Art, ed. David Antin, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1975. Antin's essay. Exh. held in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Hartford/CT. [1]
- The Video Show: Festival of Independent Video, London: Serpentine Gallery, 1975. Related documents. Hall's review. [2]
- documenta 6, Kassel, 1977.
- Plan K: Festival international de musique électronique, video et computer art / International Festival voor Elektronische Muziek, Video en Computer Art, Brussels, 1981, 142 pp. [3] (French)/(Dutch)
- The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties, ed. Lorne Falk, Banff, CA: Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, 1983, 111 pp. Review: Zippay (Art J 1985).
- Het Lumineuze beeld / Luminous Image, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984, 194 pp. With 22 video-installations by European and American artists. Poster. [4]. Documentary by Montevideo (1984, 57 min). Reviews: Zippay (Art J 1985), Duguet & Andrews (Camera Obscura, 1985).
- New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967-1980, ed. John G. Hanhardt, New York: Whitney Museum, 1984, 8 pp. [5]
- Vidéo, ed. René Payant, Montreal: Artexte, 1986, 263 pp. Published in conjunction with video installations held in various museums and galleries in Montréal in the fall of 1986. Incl. essay with historical survey of video in 9 countries, and texts of 18 lectures given during the Video 84 symposium. (French)/(English)
- Video and Language. Video as Language, 1986, [6] pp.
- Resolutions: A Critique of Video Art, ed. Patti Podesta, Los Angeles: LACE, 1986. Survey of video works made in the US from 1980-85. [6]
- The Arts for Television, eds. Kathy Rae Huffman and Dorine Mignot, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, and Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1987, 104 pp. Works by 102 artists; works and essays are classified under the following headings: image, theatre, literature, dance, music and television. [7] [8] [9]
- Video Art: Expanded Forms, ed. John G. Hanhardt, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, 1988, [8] pp. Curator's essay in Leonardo (1990).
- Video-Skulptur retrospektiv und aktuell 1963-1989, eds. Wolf von Herzogenrath and Edith Decker, Cologne: DuMont, 1989, 326 pp. Exh. held in Cologne, Berlin and Zürich. (German)
- Passages de l'image, eds. Raymond Bellour, Catherine David and Christine van Assche, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1990, 191 pp. Exh. curated by Bellour, David and Assche; held at Musée national d'art moderne, Galeries contemporaines, 19 Sep-18 Nov 1990; salle Garance, 12 Sep-15 Oct 1990. (French)
- Passages de l'image, Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, 1991, 280 pp. Exh. held at Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, 12 Feb-28 Mar 1991; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus/OH, 1 Jun-27 Oct 1991; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 6 Feb-12 Apr 1992. (English)/(Catalan)
- Video Positive, Liverpool, 1991. Review: Partridge (Variant 1991).
- Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, ed. Karen Jacobson, San Francisco: SFMOMA, 1999, 179 pp. Exh. held 15 Oct 1999-9 Jan 2000. [10] [11] [12]
- Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, eds. Klaus Biesenbach with Barbara London and Christopher Eamon, New York: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 2002, 311 pp. Exh. held 10 Nov 2002-Apr 2003. [13]
- TV ARTS TV: The Television Shot by Artists, ed. Valentina Valentini, Madrid: La Fábrica, and Barcelona: Arts Santa Mònica, 2010, 160 pp.
- Vidéo Vintage 1963–1983: une sélection de vidéos fondatrices des collections nouveaux médias du Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, ed. Christine Van Assche, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2012, 64 pp. Retrospective presenting the first two decades of video art production held in the collection of Centre Pompidou. [14]. Exh. held at Centre Pompidou, 8 Feb-7 May 2012; ZKM Karlsruhe; Beirut Art Center; MMCA Seoul. (French)
Conferences and symposia
- Transcript from The International Video Art Symposium, 5-7 March 1979, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, 1979, 69 pp.
- The Media Arts in Transition, ed. Bill Horrigan, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1983, 63 pp. Conference held 8-11 Jun 1983. Programme. Part on preservation. Speakers and registrants.
Miscellaneous
- OffLine: A Retrospective 1990-2003, Ithaca/NY, c2003, 56 pp. About an US national cable television program for video art. Episode guide, [15].
Artists' writings
- Magazines
- Radical Software magazine, 11 issues, 1970-74, Log, PDFs.
- Avalanche 9: "Video Performance", ed. Liza Bear, New York: Kineticism Press, May-Jun 1974, 29 pp. [16]
- Monographs
- Dan Graham, Video-Architecture-Television: Writings on Video and Video Works 1970-1978, Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1979. Lead essay.
- Hollis Frampton, Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981, foreword Annette Michelson, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp.
- On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton, ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp.
- Anthologies
- Video Art: An Anthology, eds. Ira Schneider and Beryl Korot, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Contributions from 70 video artists.
Art history and theory
- Books
- Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, intro. R. Buckminster Fuller, New York: Dutton, 1970, 432 pp.
- Cine expandido, Buenos Aires: Eduntref, 2012, 456 pp. [17] (Spanish)
- Expanded cinema, trans. Pier Luigi Capucci and Simonetta Fadda, Bologna: CLUEB, 2013, xvi+388 pp. (Italian)
- Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971. [18]
- Paul Ryan, Birth And Death And Cybernation: Cybernetics of the Sacred, New York: Gordon & Breach, 1973.
- Peggy Gale (ed.), Video by Artists, intro. Tom Sherman, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1976, 223 pp. [19] [20]
- Johanna Gill, Video: State of the Art, Rockefeller Foundation, 1976, 56 pp, HTML.
- Jonathan Price, Video Visions: A Medium Discovers Itself, New York: New American Library, 1977.
- Gregory Battcock (ed.), New Artists' Video: A Critical Anthology, New York: E.P.Dutton, 1978, xxii+198 pp. [21]
- Bettina Gruber, Maria Vedder (eds.), Kunst und Video: Internationale Entwicklung und Künstler, Cologne: DuMont, 1983, 264 pp. Incl. 7 essays on communications theory and video history, color plates (8 pp), statements, photographs, biographies, videographies, and bibliographies for 61 artists. Review: Zippay (Art J 1985). (German)
- John Hanhardt (ed.), Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, and Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986, 296 pp, OL.
- Deidre Boyle, Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tapes, Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1986, xxii+160 pp.
- Elke Town (ed.), Video by Artists, 2, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1986, 151 pp. A companion to the 1976 book publication. [22]
- Lori Zippay (ed.), Artists' Video: An International Guide, New York: Cross River Press, 1991, 272 pp.
- Doug Hall, Sally Jo Fifer (eds.), Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, New York: Aperture Press, 1991. Morse's essay, Sturken's essay.
- David Dunn (ed.), Eigenwelt Der Apparatewelt: Pioneers of Electronic Art, Santa Fe: The Vasulkas, 1992, 240 pp.
- Christine Ross, Images de surface: l'art vidéo reconsidéré, Montréal: Artexte, 1996, 142 pp. Based on dissertation from Université Paris I. (French)
- Michael Renov, Erika Suderburg (eds.), Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, University of Minnesota Press, 1996, 448 pp. [23]
- Deidre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, Oxford University Press, 1997.
- The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video, eds. Nina Danino and Michael Mazière, London: Wallflower Press, 2003. [24]
- Michael Rush, Video Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2003; rev.ed., 2007. Introduction + Chapter 1, Chapter 2.
- Yvonne Speilmann, Video: das reflexive Medium, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005. (German)
- Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video Art, Berg 2006; 2nd ed., Bloomsbury, 2014, 387 pp.
- Nancy Cain, Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder, Palm Springs: Event Horizon Press, 2011.
- Glenn Phillips (ed.), California Video: Artists and Histories, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008, 312 pp. [26] [27]
- Erika Suderburg, Ming-Yuen S. Ma (eds.), Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 408 pp. [28]
- Paul Hegarty, Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Kathy High, Sherry Miller Hocking, Mona Jimenez (eds.), The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, 2 vols., Intellect, 2014. [29]. Review: Pearlman (Leonardo).
- Helen Westgeest, Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
- Malin Hedlin Hayden, Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations, Ashgate, 2015. [30]
- Gabrielle Jennings (ed.), Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art, forew. Kate Mondloch, University of California Press, 2015.
- Omar Kholeif (ed.), Moving Image, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015, 239 pp.
- Journal issues
- Studio International: "Video Art", ed. David Hall, London, May-Jun 1976. Essays: D Hall, Krikorian, Krikorian, S Hall & Hopkins, Leggett, Leggett, Chaimowitz, Hoey, Kidel.
- Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium", ed. Sara Hornbacher, Fall 1985, 93 pp.
- Art Journal 65(3): "Forty Years of Video Art", ed. Yvonne Spielmann, Fall 2006.
- Book chapters, Papers, Articles
- Douglas Davis, "The New Audience: Television and Videotape", in Davis, Art and the Future, New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 84-91.
- Rosalind Krauss, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism", October 1 (Spring 1976), pp 50-64.
- Paul Ryan, "A Genealogy of Video", Leonardo 21:1 (1988), pp 39-44.
- Margaret Morse, "Video Installation Art: The Body, The Image, and the Space-in-Between", in Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, eds. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, New York: Aperture Press, 1991, pp 152-167.
- Chris Hill, "Attention! Production! Audience! —Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980", vdb.org, 1996; revised version, in Surveying the First Decade DVD, 2008.
- Kate Horsfield, "Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art", ch 1 in Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews, eds. Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand, Temple University Press, 2006, pp 7-16. [31]
- Christine Mehring, "Television Art's Abstract Starts: Europe circa 1944-1969", October 125 (Summer 2008), pp 29-64.
- Ege Berensel, "Video Art from ’Monitor-Sculpture‘ to ’Video-Sculpture", Goethe.de, 2012.
- Erika Balsom, "Original Copies: How Film and Video Became Art Objects", Cinema Journal 53:1 (Fall 2013), pp. 97-118.
- Bibliography and Chronology
- "Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History", c1983, 12 pp. With a bibliography and U.S. chronology.
- Barbara London, "Video: A Selected Chronology, 1963-1983", Art Journal 45(3): "Video: The Reflexive Medium" (Autumn 1985), pp 249-262.
- Dissertations
- James A. Nadeau, The Medium is the Medium: The Convergence of Video, Art and Television at WGBH (1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2006. [32]
More
- Publications on video at Monoskop Log
- Publications on video art at Monoskop Log
- Texts compiled by Experimental TV Center, [33]
Resources
- The Early Video Project by Davidson Gigliotti.
- Experimental Television Center: Video History Project
- Video as Urban Condition
- Video Circuits, blog for and about electronic video artists.
- A Chronology of Events in the First Two Decades of British Video Art
See also
- Video activism, VJing
- Video in CEE (bibliography), Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia (2), Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania.
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