Video art emerged as a vital vehicle for contemporary art due to developments in technology during the 1960s. Early video art explored a wide range of strategies to critique the proliferation of commercial television and the object-based infrastructure of institutional art. Video art has a rich history of production that has constantly engaged new forms of technology. This unit investigates the various historical orientations of video art—the documentation of performance-based actions, the construction of video sculptures, installations and environments, the advent of YouTube, as well as discrete screen-based works. Through selected works by Paik, Hall, Sinden, Graham, Viola, Hill,... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Darren Jorgensen
