BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
1940s Motion Picture Technology Notes
Early 1940s: a portable motion picture camera was introduced
The Bolex 16mm camera was sturdy and easy to use, with flexible focal length
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Video Culture Introduction Notes
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), the German critic and philosopher: published The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in 1936
It was
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Renovs Video Confessions Notes
Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices
Confession takes the place of penance (e.g. the Church used to order the sinner to
make a public confe
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Videos: The Distinctive Features of the Medium Notes
The current video art is important because it will affect future media (148)
The medium was seen as a source of income for
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Introduction to New Media Reading Notes
Introduction, New Media in the Late 20th-Century Art, Michael Rush
20th century art characteristic: tendency to question tradition of p
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Influential Avant-Garde Artists Notes
All came to video from other fields e.g. music, performance, dance, and sculpture
The artists who pioneered the development of video as a
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Lynn Hershman: The Subject of Autobiography Notes
James Boswell: I should live no more than I record
Lynn Hershmans Electronic Diary (1988): breakthrough for her career & arti
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Duchamp to Cage to Fluxus Notes
Russian Sergei Einstlestein: work showed connection between art, life, and
technology during the Soviet avant-garde period
Had training in math
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
Camera - Instrument of Confession Notes
Freud said verbal presentations are required to make consciousness possible
Offers possibility of self-understanding & self-acceptance
BISIA 374: Video Art
Professor: Carrie Bodie
Department: Interdisciplinary Arts
The Porcupine and the Car Notes
Excerpt from Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House by Bill Viola
Analogy of human sensory systems: compare our sense organs with windows e.g.
